Chris Ripley, the CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, is tired of blackouts — specifically, the one currently keeping ABC programming from about 10 million YouTube TV subscribers. It is such a problem for him that, on a Wednesday conference call tied to his company’s summer 2025 earnings quarter, Ripley didn’t even talk about the Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspension he helped shepherd in September.

“We, as local broadcasters, have no say in whether our content and the content we pay to air will be distributed to local viewers,” Ripley said. “This was clearly not the intent of the Communications Act, and seems to be, from our perspective, an antitrust issue as well.”

Chris Ripley, the CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, is tired of blackouts — specifically, the one currently keeping

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