It looks like folks who want to watch the Chica…

Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Broadcasting have signed an agreement to “share” services at their Rochester, NY, stations:

Via State Journal-Register:
Promotional spots airing this week on Decatur’s WAND Channel 17 and WICS Channel 20 confirmed an affiliate switch that has been discussed for more than a year.
Beginning Monday, Sept. 5, WICS will air ABC’s network programming and WAND will broadcast NBC’s network programming.
This switch has been in the works since February 2004, when [...]

Via Reuters
Television station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. on Wednesday said quarterly net income rose, boosted by a large gain from the sale of a station.
But Sinclair, owner of the largest group of television stations in the United States, warned that third-quarter revenue would fall due to the absence of political advertising, which was strong [...]

Via Business Journal (N.C.)
WUPN-48 and WXLV-45, the two Triad television stations owned by Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., will shut down its local news operations, eliminating 22 jobs and putting an end to a two-year-old news operation.
Ron Inman, general manager for the two stations said a decision to shut down the local news operation [...]

They said irony was dead after 9-11. Apparently, “they” haven’t been reading Phil Luciano’s column in the Journal Star. His April 25 entry is especially ironic. It ends with this question: “Does anyone else in PeoriaLand hate the requisite nightly blurbs that our TV newscasts squander on Bloomington-Normal?”
I sure do, Phil. That’s why I wrote [...]