Jumped ship? Please. I bailed water out of that ship for almost a decade and it sank while I was still on it.sinklair wrote: ↑Wed Oct 20, 2021 6:47 am Herm, you jumped ship before Sinclair took over. Now you’re doing great at a much better operation. Good for you.
But I guarantee you that anyone that was at WEYI before Sinclair’s “hostile” takeover would disagree with you that Barrington was worse. Hell yeah, Barrington was run in the cheap. It forced us to put on an inferior product. But there were many great broadcast professionals (like you) that did some great work, sometimes in spite of the limitations we faced.
Fast forward to today. No one is proud to be associated with the crap we put on the air. People are looking to leave as soon as they can to get as far away as fast as possible from some of the worst management I’ve ever worked for. Trust me when I say morale on Pierson Road is the worst I’ve seen. That lands squarely on the handpicked Sinclair GM, the ASSistant GM/Promotions Director, the In Over Her Head News Director, the Director of Declining Sales, the HR Director/Grilled Cheese Party Planner and the other all-white station managers.
It’s comical watching our local engineers and IT deal with this latest Sinclair-made catastrophe. They’re frustrated and lashing out at us…
The fact is, Sinclair should have taken much more aggressive response after similar hacks at the Weather Channel and Cox Media. They didn’t. Sinclair believed their own press that they were well prepared and had sufficient security, policies and procedures. There was NO PLAN on how local stations were to respond to a failure of this magnitude. That’s why you continue to see stations fail to be able to put on regular programming.
Basic community cable access and student-run high school broadcasting channels are able to put on a more professional broadcast than Sinclair today.
Maybe instead of sitting on their piles of cash, CEO Chris the Ripper and Chairman/Lover of Prostitutes David Smith should invest in basic internet security programs. their stations and the people who are actually keeping us on the air.
Sinclair is rightfully so the laughing stock of the industry.
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I never said they were worse. I just said that Barrington didn’t care. They didn’t.