Looks as thought KATV/Channel 7/Little Rock parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group might be finding itself in the middle of a "pay for play" scandal. FTV Live reports this:
Sources tell FTVLive that at the recent Sinclair corporate News
Director meetings in Baltimore, Sinclair CEO David Smith chastised the
ND's at the meeting.
As one News Director said, "Smith was crazy angry."
According
to sources, it seems that around 30 Sinclair stations screwed up a pay
for play story about Huntsman Cancer Institute out of Salt Lake City.
You
can go to any of the Sinclair stations websites, type in "Huntsman
Cancer Institute" into the search bar and you will see a number of
stories pop up.
Sinclair has a deal to shill for the Institute across their stations.
This includes stories in station's newscast, in which the Institute pays
Sinclair to run.