I am not a regular viewer of the John Oliver Show but I did catch last week's episode and became very interested in this particular segment. John went on to explain that the yet-to-be-approved merger of these two TV media giants would result in the largest concentration of TV ownership in the country and he is deeply concerned that your local news would be compromised. Summary from the show:
Right now virtually all local TV media news programming is originated locally - as it should be (except what they pick up from national sources). Sinclair already produces several segments it sends to its owned stations marked "must show" - meaning it must be shown during the local news. These tend to be hard core right wing wacko opinions ("Terror Watch List" is one which is not much more than a Muslim bashing statement). Some local stations are pushing back on this dictate by running the segments at low viewer times. KOMO in Seattle was one mentioned.
For those of you interested or employed in the local news business you might want to obtain this episode and watch it. It is quite disturbing even though presented with maximum hilarity by Oliver. This Week Now is an HBO production and this particular episode is S04E18.
There was also a sub-segment devoted to the closure of a museum of wax presidents and what may happen to some of them. Although unrelated to the news story it is very funny and worth staying tuned in.
Oliver uses very salty wording on his show and it is definitely not for children (even though virtually all of them probably know all the words).
Right now virtually all local TV media news programming is originated locally - as it should be (except what they pick up from national sources). Sinclair already produces several segments it sends to its owned stations marked "must show" - meaning it must be shown during the local news. These tend to be hard core right wing wacko opinions ("Terror Watch List" is one which is not much more than a Muslim bashing statement). Some local stations are pushing back on this dictate by running the segments at low viewer times. KOMO in Seattle was one mentioned.
For those of you interested or employed in the local news business you might want to obtain this episode and watch it. It is quite disturbing even though presented with maximum hilarity by Oliver. This Week Now is an HBO production and this particular episode is S04E18.
There was also a sub-segment devoted to the closure of a museum of wax presidents and what may happen to some of them. Although unrelated to the news story it is very funny and worth staying tuned in.
Oliver uses very salty wording on his show and it is definitely not for children (even though virtually all of them probably know all the words).