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Speaker 1: Welcome to Strictly Business Varieties, weekly podcasts featuring conversations with

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Speaker 1: industry leaders about the business of media and entertainment. I'm

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Speaker 1: Cynthia Littleton, co editor in chief of Variety Today. My

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Speaker 1: guest is Adam Ware, vice president and General Manager of

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Speaker 1: National Networks and Platforms for Sinclair Broadcast Group, where is

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Speaker 1: knee deep in the streaming wars, but rather than global domination,

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Speaker 1: he's fighting for AD dollars in local markets around the country.

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Speaker 1: Sinclair is investing big in Stir, an AD supported platform

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Speaker 1: that aggregates local newscasts and other content from Sinclair's nearly

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Speaker 1: two hundred TV stations, where, who previously worked in distribution

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Speaker 1: for Fox in its early days and for Barry Diller's

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Speaker 1: nineteen nineties media ventures, shares insights from the experience of

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Speaker 1: building Stir over the past two years. In our com versation.

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Speaker 1: Adam Ware, vice president and General manager of Sinclair Broadcast

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Speaker 1: Groups National Networks and Platforms Group, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. You're welcome. I think the podcast is

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Speaker 1: now concluded with the length of my title, and I

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Speaker 1: want to start by talking about one of the services

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Speaker 1: that you've run, which is called Stir and it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a streaming platform and a supported streaming platform. And

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Speaker 1: why it was intriguing to me and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk to you today was that we have the press

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Speaker 1: certainly is guilty of sort of shaping the streaming wars

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Speaker 1: as certainly a global race, a global chase that is

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Speaker 1: unprecedented in its in its geographical scope, and it is

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Speaker 1: definitely one of the things that is changing the game

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Speaker 1: for the the biggest media conglomerates. But that doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that there isn't a you know, a ground game to

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Speaker 1: where Stir and Sinclair with its many many stations comes in.

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Speaker 1: Tell us tell us about Stir, which is, if I'm

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Speaker 1: not mistaken, coming on about two years old, and tell

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Speaker 1: us sort of all the all the elements that you

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Speaker 1: have built in to stirre and tell us how this

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Speaker 1: this AD supported business is doing in this you know,

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Speaker 1: as we get here to the end of there is

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Speaker 1: a it's a national service, and I think the line

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Speaker 1: I like to use to explain it is it's streaming

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Speaker 1: TV from your local TV station for free, so as

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Speaker 1: opposed to being sort of this national service coming from somewhere. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I would love that in a focus group, if I

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Speaker 1: were to ask them where is stir made, they would go, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's that's from Fox right or or Como in Seattle, like,

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Speaker 1: that's my from my local TV station. So at the

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Speaker 1: at the core, that was putting content that was uniquely local,

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Speaker 1: Stir is not an afronym for anything. Ster literally came

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Speaker 1: from two parts. One is the challenger side of it,

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Speaker 1: like stirring it up, and the other part is as

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Speaker 1: a mix of content, so stirring up the content. And

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Speaker 1: at the core of this was local news as as

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Speaker 1: a as a fundamental you know, uh, foundation of the service,

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Speaker 1: complimented by other local programming, a complimented by the local

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Speaker 1: syndicated hits that the stations owned and have the streaming

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Speaker 1: rights to in their marketplace. Uh. And then go uh

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Speaker 1: and build out a free service out of that, but

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Speaker 1: not not an on demand service because at the core

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Speaker 1: of this was a couple a couple of sort of

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Speaker 1: key factors. The first factor was, Okay, do you have

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Speaker 1: look at where streaming is the strongest. It doesn't match

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Speaker 1: there's a there's Nielsen put out an interesting study last year.

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Speaker 1: I think they analyze where are the strongest d m

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Speaker 1: l A and Chicago are up there always because they're

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Speaker 1: huge populations, but it's actually it's a different footprint when

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Speaker 1: you look at streaming, and Saint Claire's footprint matched up

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Speaker 1: really nicely with that. So Austin we have a pretty

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Speaker 1: markets where they were more likely to stream? Right? I

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Speaker 1: So there's always assumption in streamers don't watch news at

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Speaker 1: content produced for five cents on YouTube. That's right, That's right.

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Speaker 1: And and the reality is I'm sure people are, but

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Speaker 1: right genres to work locally? Yeah? Right? And Stir features

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Speaker 1: a hundred thousand hours of live local news a year. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Did we have a corporate owner that was willing to

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Speaker 1: as a history of that. All those ingredients went into start.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you how does it work with the

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Speaker 1: station's how did the state? How do how does the

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Speaker 1: monetization work? Does the monitors that you know, if if

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Speaker 1: if the COMO six o'clock News gets you know, five

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Speaker 1: Or do or do the stations like you know, they

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Speaker 1: can sort of contribute their their news and their advertising

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Speaker 1: Can you talk about how that works just on a

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Speaker 1: business proposition with having that many stations contributing to this service? Sure?

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Speaker 1: you actually get a higher CPM on a local basis

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Speaker 1: And the TV stations are have sales teams on the

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Speaker 1: endemic advertisers. Uh. Yes, in large parts about endemic advertisers.

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Speaker 1: But then you also see new advertisers. Um, I'll give you.

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Speaker 1: That client is a horse auction client, and that horse

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Speaker 1: What the what again? Where they started? And this goes

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Speaker 1: Why don't we actually create a channel out of it.

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Speaker 1: I think just two parts. That one is I just

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Speaker 1: think as a company, we're looking sort of at allways

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Speaker 1: on our station and uh and then in particularly we're

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Speaker 1: looking at our signals as a as a method of streaming,

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Speaker 1: because that's really what ATFC three DONA is about. Next

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Speaker 1: gen TV is the next generation of a broadcast signal.

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Speaker 1: It's all about streaming. So all of that is consistent thinking,

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Speaker 1: right as a as A as someone who's on the line,

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Speaker 1: you know, selling day in, day out, inventory and so on,

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Speaker 1: so a general manager, general sales manager and so on.

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Speaker 1: I think there's always a nervousness about seeing your programming,

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Speaker 1: even though it's on something else you may own. There's

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Speaker 1: always a nervousness that it in some way will hurt

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Speaker 1: your primary way they're viewing, which I get. But the

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Speaker 1: reality is if they're not going to watch you over there,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna watch someone else over there right right, and

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Speaker 1: and that's what's happening. People are moving that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I gave you some stats from Nielsen, right, there's so much,

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Speaker 1: so much. The viewing is now going on either on

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Speaker 1: an only O T T basis, or on a O

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Speaker 1: T A basis, or a combination of O T T

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Speaker 1: and streaming, UH and cable. But it's it's the viewing

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Speaker 1: is no longer dominated by one single input, and you

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Speaker 1: need to be in all of them. Thanks for listening.

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