Knives Are Out for Sinclair-Tribune Deal

Sinclair Broadcast Group continues to take plenty of flak for its effort to buy Tribune Media's 42 stations in a deal valued at $3.9 billion. This week it came in various new forms highlighted by the Coalition to Save Local Media, a group of deal critics that includes cable and satellite operators. Among the members are the American Cable Association, Dish Network, Common Cause, Public Knowledge, Herring Networks, NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association, the Competitive Carriers Association and the Computer & Communications Industry Association. PBS NewsHour devoted a segment this week to the merger, saying the merger was raising concerns "because of Sinclair’s policy of combining news with partisan political opinion."