{"id":186,"date":"2004-10-19T09:09:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T09:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/186"},"modified":"2004-10-19T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T09:09:06","slug":"sbgi-takes-a-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/186","title":{"rendered":"SBGI takes a beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yow. Sinclair Broadcasting Group&#8217;s stock just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/yhoo\/story.asp?source=blq\/yhoo&#038;siteid=yhoo&#038;dist=yhoo&#038;guid=%7B8818E087%2DA326%2D4977%2D911E%2DCF6ACCB2B203%7D\">tumbled<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=SBGI\">7.81%<\/a> today over concerns about lost advertising revenue due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/000182.html\">Stolen Honor flap<\/a>. To put it into perspective, SPGI&#8217;s stock price is now the lowest it&#8217;s been in a decade except for a couple weeks in April of 2001. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/002226.shtml\">Lessig points out<\/a>, that&#8217;s a good $60 million they&#8217;ve lost in market cap over this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"update\"><b>UPDATE 10-21-04:<\/b> Sinclair has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvbarn.com\/ticker2004\/archives\/027733.shtml\">backed off<\/a> from their original plans (along with the plea of <em>No really! We never said <a href=\"http:\/\/xi.tep.org\/Vocab.html\">pickles<\/a>!<\/em>) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/yhoo\/story.asp?source=blq\/yhoo&#038;siteid=yhoo&#038;dist=yhoo&#038;guid=%7B587E3700%2DA9C5%2D414C%2D9262%2D285897335C54%7D\">market has responded with an 11% bump<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yow. Sinclair Broadcasting Group&#8217;s stock just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/yhoo\/story.asp?source=blq\/yhoo&#038;siteid=yhoo&#038;dist=yhoo&#038;guid=%7B8818E087%2DA326%2D4977%2D911E%2DCF6ACCB2B203%7D\">tumbled<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=SBGI\">7.81%<\/a> today over concerns about lost advertising revenue due to the <a href=\"http:\/\/docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/000182.html\">Stolen Honor flap<\/a>. To put it into perspective, SPGI&#8217;s stock price is now the lowest it&#8217;s been in a decade except for a couple weeks in April of 2001. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lessig.org\/blog\/archives\/002226.shtml\">Lessig points out<\/a>, that&#8217;s a good $60 million they&#8217;ve lost in market cap over this. <\/p>\n<p class=\"update\"><b>UPDATE 10-21-04:<\/b> Sinclair has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvbarn.com\/ticker2004\/archives\/027733.shtml\">backed off<\/a> from their original plans (along with the plea of <em>No really! We never said <a href=\"http:\/\/xi.tep.org\/Vocab.html\">pickles<\/a>!<\/em>) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/yhoo\/story.asp?source=blq\/yhoo&#038;siteid=yhoo&#038;dist=yhoo&#038;guid=%7B587E3700%2DA9C5%2D414C%2D9262%2D285897335C54%7D\">market has responded with an 11% bump<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}