Television

Global TV Corporate Office

Global TV was founded in 1974. The company originally decided to show Canadian-only programming between the prime hours of 5 PM to midnight and let the earlier daytime hours broadcast to post educational content from the Ontario Educations Communications Authority.

However, the OECA decided to use their own transmitters and Global TV began broadcasting full-time.

The Canadian-only programming idea quickly bombed and American programs were used to fill in the gaps.

Today, the Global Television Network, known more commonly as Globe or Global TV, is Canada’s second most-watched private terrestrial television network, second only to CTV.

The company is a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment.

In March 2022, the company avoided filing for bankruptcy by amending and restating its existing syndicated senior secured credit facilities with its bank group.

Global TV maintains a corporate office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Sling TV Corporate Office

Sling TV made its debut on January 5, 2015, in a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company is owned and operated by Dish Network.

Sling TV is an American streaming television service that offers video on demand, local channels, and major cable channels which can be streamed via smart TVs and digital media players, such as Roku.

In September 2020, Sling TV announced Sling Watch Party, a co-viewing feature that allows people from different locations to watch live TV together simultaneously.

In 2021, the company announced a new version of Sling called Sling Free, where viewers would be able to watch limited programming for free by watching advertisements.

The company will be showing the 2022 Superbowl game and offering special deals for new subscribers.

Sling also showed the 2022 Winter Olympics via the NBC channel.

Sling TV maintains a corporate office in Englewood, Colorado.

One America News Corporate Office

One America News Network, often called OANN, or One America News, was founded by Robert Herring in San Diego, California. The company operates a conservative, far right-wing pay American news channel.

Originally launched with the intention of targeting a conservative and center to right-wing audience, OAN states that its goal is to deliver credible national and international news coverage. The channel is highly pro-Trump. Vanity Fair, The Independent, and others have stated that the channel promotes falsehoods and conspiracy theories, rather than news coverage.

Founder and owner, Robert Herring, reportedly insists that producers play down the known Russian interference in the 2016 election while issuing unfounded negative statements against democrats, Muslims, and others, such as their 2017 statement saying that crime in the UK had increased with the spread of radical Islamic terrorists.

The company is a Trump favorite but is still struggling to get listed on many cable company carriers.

As of September 2019, OANN boasts that it is available to 35 million households.

OANN sued talk show host, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC after she blasted the channel as “paid Russian propaganda” in September 2019.

Headquarters for OANN are located in San Diego, California.

Newsmax TV Corporate Office

Newsmax TV was founded in 1998 by journalist and current CEO Christopher Ruddy. This American free-to-air all-news channel is available free online. The channel is owned by Newsmax Media. The channel launched in 2014 to 35 million satellite subscribers through DirecTV and Dish Network. As of February 2018, the network reaches over 50 million homes.

The channel is considered to be conservative since many of the programs it broadcasts are conservative talk show hosts.

In September 2018, the company launched a deal with Comcast which will enable the channel to operate on America’s largest cable network.

Altice USA also struck a deal with Newsmax TV which will allow Optimum and Suddenlink customers to watch the channel who have the expanded basic package.

The channel is broadcast out of New York but has headquarters located in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Sinclair Broadcast Group Corporate Office

While Sinclair Broadcast Group can trace its roots back to 1958, when founder Julian Sinclair Smith and a group of investors operated a small FM radio station and later a UHF channel 45 for the Baltimore, Maryland, area, it wasn’t until the television station launched in 1971 that the company changed its name to Chesapeake Television Corporation. Smith’s son, David, changed the name again in 1985 to Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Today, the company is a publicly traded (on the NASDAQ) telecommunication conglomerate, controlled by the Smith family. The company is the largest television operator in the US (by number of stations) with 193 channels in more than 100 markets.

Sinclair also owns 4 multicast networks (Comet, Charge, Stadium, and TBD), as well as the Tennis Channel, one streaming service (STIRR) and 4 radio stations in the Pacific Northwest.

The company has faced strong criticism for its conservative slant on news, as well as attempting to persuade the Trump administration to loosen the rules regarding regulations about the concentration of media ownership.

In March 2017, Sinclair was in discussions with Tribune Media, hoping to acquire the company. Concerns about Sinclair potentially creating an oligarchy in the broadcast television industry, which led public interest groups to attempt to block the purchase. In August 2018, Tribune Media dropped their sales agreement and filed a lawsuit for $3.9 billion.

In January 2019, the company was heavily criticized for publishing anti-vaccine propaganda.

Headquarters for Sinclair Broadcast Group are located in Hunt Valley, Maryland.