Sinclair Broadcast Group FAQ

Pros

The local news and sales team is great to work with and is filled with talented people who try their best everyday, because they have an authentic passion for the news business.

Cons

The burnout is very high and morale is very low. Additional work and responsibilities are piled on employees, without any extra compensation or benefits to balance out the workload. Sinclair expects and forces the workload of 2 or more people to be dumped on one person. This happens as corporate continues to buy more stations and cut staff. This is causing high turnover rates, along with employees struggling with low pay to begin with. The news team is forced to air "must-run" segments from corporate. The political pieces clearly have right-wing slants and no balance, which puts local TV stations in a dangerous situation of bias, when news stations should be impartial. Behind-the-scenes employees are under appreciated and underpaid while doing the most work. Instead of promoting from within, Sinclair often hires from the outside, which causes morale to plummet lower. Work-life balance is extremely difficult, as the stations work every holiday and the paid holidays are very limited. Corporate is very strict on overtime, despite pushing more work onto you. Not everyone is able to take a lunch break due to the additional work and deadlines.

Advice to Management

Please for the love of God pay and treat your employees better. These are talented, hard working and intelligent news professionals. Each day they are striving to do their best under very toxic conditions. You owe it to the men and women that show up everyday to stop micromanaging them, pay them what they deserve (not what you think they deserve) and to treat them with more dignity. Stop forcing more work onto employees, unless you're going to hire more workers to share the load. Otherwise, you are going to keep burning workers out, the ratings will fall, high turnover will continue and you will have no one to blame but yourself, Sinclair.

Pros

Excellent benefit package, extremely competent management at all levels with plenty of opportunity for advancement

Cons

Too many chiefs not enoughIndians.

Advice to Management

Stop the creation of new job titles as a way to circumvent the exception reviews of annual increases .

Pros

Access to adobe suites. Free coffee.

Cons

Low pay. Camera equipment is outdated. Political bias (alt-right). Video content that's produce is rubbish and a complete waste of time. Insensitive and inappropriate comments are made in the office almost everyday. HR is useless. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT WORK HERE!

Advice to Management

Pay producers more than minimum wage.

Pros

Health benefits are good (dental, vision, health)

Cons

Everything else about the company not so great

Advice to Management

Won't make a difference

Pros

Direct manager was awesome and they had a great response to COVID

Cons

Parental leave is bad, HR is bad and unresponsive. New management created a hostile environment

Advice to Management

Create a friendly environment that promote collaboration not fear