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Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes on Cox Media Group Stations

PR Newswire (May 2, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast Group Prices Public Offering of Class A Common Stock

PR Newswire (May 2, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast Group Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Mon, Apr 29
Sinclair Broadcast Group Announces Public Offering of Class A Common Stock

PR Newswire (Apr 29, 2013)
Sinclair Declares $0.15 Per Share Quarterly Cash Dividend

PR Newswire (Apr 29, 2013)
Sinclair Reports $0.21 Diluted Earnings Per Share In First Quarter 2013; Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend Per Share

PR Newswire (Apr 29, 2013)
Cramer's Mad Money - Sinclair's Remarkable Transformation (4/26/13)
SA Editor Miriam Metzinger • Sun, Apr 28
Sinclair Broadcast Group Has Too Much Momentum Given Fisher Acquisition
The Value Investor • Mon, Apr 15 • 1 Comment
Sinclair Refinances Its Existing Bank Credit Facility And Raises Additional Term Loan And Revolving Commitments

PR Newswire (Apr 10, 2013)
Sinclair Promotes Tammy Dupuy And David Howitt To Assistant Vice Presidents Of Programming

PR Newswire (Apr 5, 2013)
Sinclair Closes Private Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes

PR Newswire (Apr 2, 2013)
Sinclair Commits to Mobile DTV in Nine Additional Markets

PR Newswire (Apr 2, 2013)
Sinclair Prices Proposed Private Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes of Sinclair Television Group

PR Newswire (Mar 18, 2013)
Sinclair Announces Proposed Private Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes of Sinclair Television Group

PR Newswire (Mar 18, 2013)
Sinclair to Refinance its Existing Bank Credit Facility to Raise Additional Term Loan and Revolving Commitments

PR Newswire (Mar 18, 2013)
Sinclair names Terry Gaughan General manager of WCGV-TV and WVTV-TV in Milwaukee

PR Newswire (Mar 7, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast Group's CEO Presents at Deutsche Bank's DbAccess 21st Annual Media and Telecom Conference (Transcript)
Tue, Mar 5
Sinclair Broadcast Group's CEO Discusses the Acquisitions of the Barrington and COX Stations (Transcript)
Fri, Mar 1
Sinclair Broadcast and DirecTV Reach Agreement Regarding Retrans

PR Newswire (Feb 28, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast Group Announces Agreement to Purchase Barrington TV Stations; Steven Pruett To Be Named Chief Operating Officer of Chesapeake TV Subsidiary

PR Newswire (Feb 28, 2013)

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Sinclair Broadcast Group Has Too Much Momentum Given Fisher Acquisition
The Value Investor • Mon, Apr 15 • 1 Comment
Sinclair Broadcast Group: Election Year Stock
George Jarkesy • Tue, Mar 27, 2012

Cramer's Mad Money - Sinclair's Remarkable Transformation (4/26/13)
SA Editor Miriam Metzinger • Sun, Apr 28
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Sinclair Broadcast Group Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Mon, Apr 29
Sinclair Broadcast Group's CEO Presents at Deutsche Bank's DbAccess 21st Annual Media and Telecom Conference (Transcript)
Tue, Mar 5
Sinclair Broadcast Group's CEO Discusses the Acquisitions of the Barrington and COX Stations (Transcript)
Fri, Mar 1
Sinclair Broadcast Group Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Feb 6
Sinclair Broadcast Group Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Feb 17, 2010
Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Aug 5, 2009
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, May 6, 2009
Sinclair Broadcast Group Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Feb 11, 2009
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Nov 5, 2008
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Aug 6, 2008
Sinclair Broadcast Group Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Mon, May 19, 2008
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Feb 6, 2008

Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes on Cox Media Group Stations

PR Newswire (May 2, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast Group Prices Public Offering of Class A Common Stock

PR Newswire (May 2, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast Group Announces Public Offering of Class A Common Stock

PR Newswire (Apr 29, 2013)
Sinclair Declares $0.15 Per Share Quarterly Cash Dividend

PR Newswire (Apr 29, 2013)
Sinclair Reports $0.21 Diluted Earnings Per Share In First Quarter 2013; Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend Per Share

PR Newswire (Apr 29, 2013)
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Sinclair Refinances Its Existing Bank Credit Facility And Raises Additional Term Loan And Revolving Commitments

PR Newswire (Apr 10, 2013)
Sinclair Promotes Tammy Dupuy And David Howitt To Assistant Vice Presidents Of Programming

PR Newswire (Apr 5, 2013)
Sinclair Closes Private Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes

PR Newswire (Apr 2, 2013)
Sinclair Commits to Mobile DTV in Nine Additional Markets

PR Newswire (Apr 2, 2013)
Sinclair Prices Proposed Private Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes of Sinclair Television Group

PR Newswire (Mar 18, 2013)
Sinclair Announces Proposed Private Offering of Senior Unsecured Notes of Sinclair Television Group

PR Newswire (Mar 18, 2013)
Sinclair to Refinance its Existing Bank Credit Facility to Raise Additional Term Loan and Revolving Commitments

PR Newswire (Mar 18, 2013)
Sinclair names Terry Gaughan General manager of WCGV-TV and WVTV-TV in Milwaukee

PR Newswire (Mar 7, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast and DirecTV Reach Agreement Regarding Retrans

PR Newswire (Feb 28, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast Group Announces Agreement to Purchase Barrington TV Stations; Steven Pruett To Be Named Chief Operating Officer of Chesapeake TV Subsidiary

PR Newswire (Feb 28, 2013)
Sinclair Broadcast Group Announces a Strategic Initiative Creating a Small Market Television Subsidiary; Announces Agreement to Purchase Certain COX Media Stations

PR Newswire (Feb 25, 2013)
Sinclair Declares $0.15 Per Share Quarterly Cash Dividend

PR Newswire (Feb 6, 2013)
Sinclair Reports $0.73 Diluted Earnings Per Share In Fourth Quarter 2012; Declares $0.15 Quarterly Dividend Per Share

PR Newswire (Feb 6, 2013)
Sinclair to Report Fourth Quarter 2012 Results on February 6, 2013 at 7:30am (Eastern Time)

PR Newswire (Jan 15, 2013)

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Company Description

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Sector: Services

Industry: Broadcasting - TV

Country: United States

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Monday, April 29, 1:59 PM Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBGI) declares $0.15/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 2.31%. For shareholders of record May 31. Payable June 14. Ex-div date May 29. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Monday, April 29, 7:13 AM Sinclair Broadcast (SBGI): Q1 EPS of $0.21 beats by $0.04. Revenue of $282.6M misses by $8.1M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Thursday, April 11, 9:43 AM Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI +6.9%) acquires Fisher Communications (FSCI +0.9%) in a $373.3M deal. Apparently Sinclair wasn't joking when it said in February its previous acquisitions had "put very little stress at all" on its ability to make additional acquisitions. FSCI shareholders will get $41 in cash for their shares. 1 Comment [On the Move, M&A]
Tuesday, March 19, 11:14 AM Is Disney pulling the plug on local TV networks? After already offering live streams for ESPN and the Disney Channel to mobile users, the company will now move into live streaming of ABC in a development that could eventually lead to lower ratings for the local stations of the major networks. Broadcast blues: Media General (MG -0.3%), Gray Television (GTN -3.1%), Belo Corp. (BLC +0.5%), Lin TV (TVL -0.4%), Nextstar Broadcasting (NXST +0.6%), Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI +0.7%). Comment! [Consumer]
Tuesday, February 19, 12:56 PM More cable transmission fee wars: DirecTV (DTV +0.1%) admonishes Sinclair Broadcasting (SBGI -2%) for threatening its subscribers over the potential to see lost programming if the companies don' get a deal worked out before February 28. Analysts think Sinclair has more to lose if a new deal doesn't come to pass before the deadline. Comment! [Consumer]
Thursday, February 7, 6:25 AM Up 24% over the past 6 months, Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI) says it still has more dry powder: "With all we've acquired, we put very little stress at all on our capability to make additional acquisitions. We're virtually in as good shape today as we go into '13 as regards to our buying power as we were a year ago." (Key competitors: SSP, FSCI, TVL) Comment! [Earnings, Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, February 6, 8:17 AM Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBGI) declares $0.15/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 4.22%. For shareholders of record Mar. 01. Payable Mar. 15. Ex-div date Feb. 27. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Wednesday, February 6, 7:42 AM Sinclair Broadcast (SBGI): Q4 EPS of $0.73 beats by $0.17. Revenue of $329.5M beats by $17.76M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News]
Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 12:45 PM Midday top 10 gainers: VRML +34%. SHS +32%. GMCR +24%. SPMD +18%. TROV +17%. GPOR +16%. IDIX +15%. TSL +15%. KCG +14%. AXR +12%.
Midday top 10 Losers: UTI -24%. CLUB -21%. CFNB -16%. GENE -15%. TFM -14%. CBAK -13%. SBGI -12%. DWCH -13%. NFEC -11%. CAP -9%. 2 Comments [On the Move]
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 11:33 AM Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI) declares $0.15/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 4.77%. For shareholders of record Nov 30. Payable Dec 14. Ex-div date Nov 28. Additionally, the company has declared special dividend of $1.00/share payable with regular dividend. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 11:32 AM Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI) declares special dividend of $1.00/share. (PR) 1 Comment [Dividends]
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 10:08 AM Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI): Q3 EPS of $0.36 beats by $0.01. Revenue of $260.5M (+43.9% Y/Y) beats by $4M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Friday, September 14, 2012, 9:33 AM Local TV stations could the big beneficiary of a tight presidential election with ad spending on campaigns expected to rise 25% compared to two years ago, according to a report from Moody's. A new trend this year is a higher focus on PAC and corporate spending toward "causes" instead of candidates. Picks to see a political season earnings boost: SBGI, MEG, NXST, GTN. Comment! [Consumer, Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 9:44 AM Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI) declares $0.15/share quarterly dividend, 25% increase from prior dividend of $0.12. Forward yield 5.29%. For shareholders of record Aug 31. Payable Sep 14. Ex-div date Aug 29. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 9:10 AM Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI): Q2 EPS of $0.37 beats by $0.08. Revenue of $253.5M (+34% Y/Y) beats by $5M. (PR) Comment! [Earnings]
Thursday, July 19, 2012, 9:31 AM Sinclair Broadcast Group (SBGI +0.5%) buys six TV stations owned by Newport Television for $412.5M in a deal expected to close by the end of the year. The stations as a group reach 3% of U.S. households. Comment! [Consumer, M&A]

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Quinton Hobdy
I was right about most of these. $UBNT $OCN $HTZ $LINTA $CSCO $TM $ECL $SBGI $VIPS $SIX $MPC I'm also looking at $VIPS $NBG $GREK
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Quinton Hobdy: $WMT not a good pick. $TSN is a stronger choice than $SWY
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Capitalist Bull
Today's Strong Breakouts & Follow Throughs: $WWWW $NFLX $NSM $SBGI $TSLA $SODA $SSYS $CPA $IACI $GOOG http://stks.co/aUGB
May 14, 10:03 AM
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Capitalist Bull
Setups in the Wings: $LNKD $LVS $CLR $COG $SBGI $WWWW $EQIX $SLCA $OAS $YELP $HOS $YOKU $FB $VRX http://stks.co/tCUb
May 13, 2:56 PM
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Ryan Mallory
A Little Market Weakness Will Make My Watch-List A Must Have | $DG $SBGI $WLT http://bit.ly/166KJ5Z
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Quinton Hobdy
List of stocks with good upside potential. $UBNT $OCN $HTZ $LINTA $CISCO $TM $ECL $SBGI $VIPS $SIX....Maybe $MPC
May 13, 12:05 AM
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Capitalist Bull
LSA growth stocks exhibiting calm orderly action & more upside ahead. http://stks.co/jVAq $TSLA $FB $LNKD $NFLX $GOOG $SBGI $OCN $P $ES_F
May 11, 1:00 PM
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Setups in the Wings: $COG $OCN $SBGI $NSM $RGR $YOKU $SLCA $SKX $P $SODA $FB $LEN $TOL $CHK $VRX http://stks.co/tBlQ
May 8, 1:53 PM
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Capitalist Bull
LSA confirms rally, http://stks.co/gUHA. Growth leading. Use pullbacks to initiate/add to positions. $SBGI $GOOG $OCN $BX $NFLX $SODA
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Potential Downgrades (4/29/13): $BC, $CYOU, $DDR, $KIM, $LQDT, $NLSN, $SBGI
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Quinton Hobdy
I was right about most of these. $UBNT $OCN $HTZ $LINTA $CSCO $TM $ECL $SBGI $VIPS $SIX $MPC I'm also looking at $VIPS $NBG $GREK
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Quinton Hobdy: $WMT not a good pick. $TSN is a stronger choice than $SWY
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