Sinclair Broadcast Group Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Sinclair Broadcast Group full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Gaining experience, relationships and networking, great people, understanding management.
The company is solid and survived ahead of competition after the Great Recession.

Cons – Low Salary. You're payed in experience. But, my low salary kept me employed when revenues were down.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your longer term employees more. Say after 10-15 years, offer a substantial raise to keep them on. They've stayed around this long for a reason, keep them here with a good incentive beyond a bigger share of the 401k pie.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – Work with businesses across various industries.
Good pay, if you work hard and sell, sell and sell.
nice co-workers.

Cons – no direct path for advancement.
no growth opportunities.
stressful career.

Advice to Senior Management – be open to employee recommendations.
provide opportunities for advancement.
be a mentor as opposed to a micro-manager. Its a 100% commission sales job, we know we have to sell, otherwise we do not get paid!

Current Employee – been working at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – Co-workers and some of the staff make it a good place to be. This is the only reason I have stay as long as I have. I have seen too many people come and go over the past year. KABB is stronger than KMYS but both stations have something worth while.

Cons – Management is out of control. Smoke and mirrors. High turnover. Use caution with this company and it's non-compete - they will short pay you when working for the company and will try to keep you from making a decent living with one of the other stations.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop treating the staff like garbage. Be the leaders. Build moral. Be on time and accountable for your actions. Go to management 101 classes - all levels of management really need a refresher course. Maybe staff will stick around longer.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – Good benefits, good hours and good training.

Cons – No gas reimbursement, management always has their thumb in your back, good money is hard to make in smaller markets, management lies about future billings of accounts given.

Advice to Senior Management – Let salepeople do their job and be realistic about money that will be made when first starting.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – Flexible, 100%commission made good money.

Cons – Management turnover, success not recognized, unfare distribution of accounts.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – The nations largest private broadcast television group. It functions more like a cable network or network affiliate than a television group. There are plenty of relocation and job opportunities located across the country in desirable areas such as Tampa, Las Vegas, Baltimore/Washington, Minneapolis, and Nashville.

Cons – Lack of diversity in upper management. Sinclair truly is a good ol' boy organization. You'd be hard pressed to find a person of color (or women) on any management team, either on the station level or on the executive level located in hunt valley. For an organization of its size, it is completely unacceptable for their to be no diversity or inclusion in the management or executive ranks.
Another con for the company is the pervasive "us" vs. "them" mentality that prevails throughout the company. What I mean is that stations don't really trust corporate and corporate really doesn't respect the stations...or at least that is the sentiment that many of the subordinates who toil in the doldrums of Sinclair feel.

Advice to Senior Management – My advice would be to create a culture of leaders rather than promoting individuals to micro manage, micro-managers. Listen to your employees. Become more diverse, or at least make an attempt to diversify your management and executive ranks. No, don't "diversify" for the sake of saying you are diverse BUT your organization should somewhat mirror the markets in which you provide a service for (after all you are public broadcasters, granted public licenses, to serve local communities). Create a culture where employees feel like there opinions mattered.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – A good resume asset for a Media Account Executive

Cons – Makes promises and never do. Management are degrading, Director has an exaggerated sense of self importance and has no respect for the Sales Reps or other managers.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire approachable, professioanal managers that has advanced interpersonal communication skills. Someone that well grounded and true to their word. Good Managers enhances good sales rep. They do not humiliate their staff.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – Training on the job with no prior experience.
Opportunities to learn above and beyond the basic job requirements, if you take the initiative.
Fair and understanding management.... very accessible.
Decent time off (paid and unpaid).
Good PPO health care options.

Cons – Pay is at the bottom end of the scale compared to other stations in the Las Vegas area.
Pay raises are minuscule (Standard is .25 per year).
Pay raise freezes because of the economy.
Expansion of the stations channels has lead to a dramatic increase in work load with no additional compensation.

Advice to Senior Management – Sinclair should offer more competitive wages with other station in the area. The Las Vegas station has 6 channels and while other stations have maybe 1 or 2, wages are lower for significantly more work. Although, in all fairness, when the economy fell apart and advertising revenue dropped dramatically, Sinclair chose not to lay people off.

Current Employee – been working at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – -learned a lot about TV
-Trained in many different aspects of production

Cons – -Bad pay
-there is a separation between production and news that was just unbelievably hard to deal with

Advice to Senior Management – You should really look into what some of your local managers are doing and how some in the lower levels are being treated

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Sinclair Broadcast Group

Pros – Great co-workers, great product and sales initiatives

Cons – The climate was very tense due to the constant philandering and fraternazation between upper mangagement and co workers.

Advice to Senior Management – Do not move managers around to new markets when they get caught having affairs with employees. They just repeat the philandering from market to market. It creates a very tense work climate when a co-worker and manager are engaging in an affair. .

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend