{"id":2162201,"date":"2025-11-17T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2162201"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:23:11","slug":"sinclair-in-talks-to-acquire-rival-tv-station-owner-e-w-scripps-eyeing-300-million-in-cost-synergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sinclair-in-talks-to-acquire-rival-tv-station-owner-e-w-scripps-eyeing-300-million-in-cost-synergies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair in Talks to Acquire Rival TV Station Owner E.W. Scripps, Eyeing $300 Million in Cost Synergies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sinclair, the second-biggest U.S. TV station group owner, disclosed that it has acquired an 8.2% stake in the E.W. Scripps Co. and has been in talks for several months about buying Scripps.<\/p>\n

Sinclair, which operates and\/or provides services to 185 TV stations in 85 markets, said it has \u201cengaged in constructive discussions with [Scripps] for several months regarding a potential combination of the two companies\u201d in a filing with the SEC<\/a> Monday. Scripps has more than 60 stations in 40-plus markets.<\/p>\n

Sinclair also disclosed that it has acquired approximately 8.2% of the outstanding Class A (non-voting) shares of Scripps on the open market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sinclair, the second-biggest U.S. TV station group owner, disclosed that it has acquired an 8.2% stake in the E.W. Scripps Co. and has been in talks for several months about buying Scripps. Sinclair, which operates and\/or provides services to 185 TV stations in 85 markets, said it has \u201cengaged in constructive discussions with [Scripps] for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2162201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sinclair-in-Talks-to-Acquire-Rival-TV-Station-Owner-EW.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162203,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162201\/revisions\/2162203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}