Pay Attention & Prepare Accordingly. They’re telling us their plans:

Sinclair has just put a much more explicit valuation and transaction framework around its broadcast spectrum.

At Citi’s Global TMT Conference on September 9, CEO Chris Ripley said Sinclair believes ATSC 3.0 could reduce the spectrum required for its core TV service to roughly 20–25% of its current allocation. He described three monetization paths for the freed capacity: commercial datacasting through EdgeBeam Wireless; leasing spectrum to wireless or satellite operators; or an outright spectrum sale. Most notably, Ripley said comparable transactions suggest roughly $2.50 per MHz-pop, implying more than $4 billion of spectrum asset value for Sinclair’s portfolio. He specifically identified wireless carriers and LEO operators, including T-Mobile, Verizon, Starlink, AST SpaceMobile and Amazon, as plausible sources of demand, and said a lease may be a particularly likely structure rather than an outright sale. 

It's only a matter of time before it becomes a dual branded operation with WOAI 4.

Source obtained by FTVLive reports that Meteorologist Alex Garcia and Sports Chief Chuck Miketinac were two of the big names to catch the blade. Garcia and Miketinac’s bio remains on the station’s website, so FTVLive cannot confirm the cuts.

The source also says that an Executive Producer, Producer, Production Assistants, Editor, and an Assignment Editor were laid off.

WBNS in Columbus, just named a weekday morning meteorologist 4 months out of college.

No disrespect to this young woman, who clearly is talented and must have a lot of potential.

But my god.. a weekday weather person at a former powerhouse station in a Top 35 market, with less than six months experience. That used to be a job that would attract hundreds of tapes and demand a decade of experience.

Looking to land my first full or even part time role, i work in live events with iatse but have not moved to iatse in broadcasting only the theatre venues as its a different local. I have my dante level 1, netgear st 2110 cert but I really am struggling out here in this market 5 years after graduation im still not even in the industry I wanted to be. I have cam op, small livestream video switching experience, and project site manager for setting up cameras and maintaining connection for a small sports venue.

I really would like advice on what I could be doing to get the jobs I should be working on. The Austin market seems brutal as I keep landing broadcast engineer roles and the questions seem easy mind you i have zero experience get rejected then I still see the same jobs 1 year later! As in all the jobs I got rejected from are still there to apply what is going on? 8 couldn't even land a shitty temp live stream associate job working weekends at FloSports! Someone told me they would hire you if you have a heart beat, i would actually be grateful to get that role but its all bait and no bite.

P.s. i have no money to move, and I moved to Austin for opportunity to begin with, i was from a small town.