FCC Concerns and Broad Public Opposition Should Put an End to Potential Sinclair-Tribune Merger

This week, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai expressed "serious concerns," about the potential Sinclair-Tribune merger, joining a chorus of broad public opposition including thousands of CWA members who submitted comments to the FCC opposing the job-killing deal.

Sinclair has a long history of cutting jobs when it acquires stations, which means more pre-packaged segments and cookie-cutter scripts and less local news coverage that reflects the concerns and interests of the communities that these stations serve.

After Pai's comments this week, CWA called for the idea of the merger to be abandoned.