https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2017/05/State-of-the-News-Media-Report-2012-FINAL.pdf

Sinclair Broadcasting was the biggest player in 2011. It bought 15 stations from two ownership groups. In

the single largest acquisition in four years, the company paid $385 million for the eight‐station broadcast division of Freedom Communications, which had been on the block since the company declared

bankruptcy in 2010.58 Sinclair also bought seven stations owned by Four Points Media for $200 million.59

The deals put Sinclair in charge of more than 60 stations, the most owned by any one TV station group,

and Sinclair’s chief executive, David Smith, hinted that the company might still be looking to buy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/sinclair-fine-fcc.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851783937/fcc-fines-sinclair-record-48-million-for-deceptive-bid-for-tribune-stations

White House adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner had boasted the month before President Trump's inauguration about a deal the Trump campaign had struck with Sinclair.

Pai swept away decades-old inhibitions against greater consolidation in the local television industry — something that he had discussed with Sinclair chairman David Smith just before Trump elevated Pai to lead the FCC.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/apr/10/donald-trump-sinclair-david-smith-white-house-meeting

The company has been a driving force in the development of a new broadcasting standard known as Next Gen TV, and is one of the first involved in making chips for televisions, cellphones and other devices to receive the new transmissions.

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As well as entertainment, the chip allows mobile devices to receive messages from an upgraded government public warning system, through which authorities can send video statements and multimedia even when telephone lines are down.