{"id":124361,"date":"2026-02-26T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124361\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:07:06","slug":"sinclair-seeks-waiver-for-scranton-lma-to-buy-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124361\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair Seeks Waiver For Scranton LMA-To-Buy Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since September 2013, when Sinclair Inc. announced it would be acquiring a large group of broadcast TV stations from New Age Media, a Wilkes Barre-Scranton property\u2019s ownership has served as a prime example of what a company can do to operate a station it cannot legally purchase due to the FCC\u2019s national TV ownership reach cap.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Sinclair is taking the step to make this station an owned-and-operated entity, given the anticipated thawing of the cap by Commission Chairman Brendan Carr.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since September 2013, when Sinclair Inc. announced it would be acquiring a large group of broadcast TV stations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,58316,58319,58317,58318],"class_list":["post-124361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sinclair-inc","tag-the-hot-list","tag-tv3","tag-wswb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}