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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

☒ QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2026

☐ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from to .

COMMISSION FILE NUMBER:

333-271072 (Sinclair, Inc.)

000-26076 (Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC)

Sinclair, Inc.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)


Maryland						92-1076143 (Sinclair, Inc.)
Maryland						52-1494660 (Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC)
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation or organization)						(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

10706 Beaver Dam Road

Hunt Valley, Maryland 21030

(Address of principal executive office, zip code)

(410) 568-1500

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

None

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

Securities registered by Sinclair, Inc. pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class

Trading Symbol

Name of each exchange on which registered

Class A Common Stock, par value $ 0.01 per share

SBGI

The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC

Securities registered by Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC pursuant to Section12(b) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Sinclair, Inc.

Yes

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC

Yes

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such file).

Sinclair, Inc.

Yes

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC

Yes

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Sinclair, Inc.

Large accelerated filer

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Accelerated filer

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Non-accelerated filer

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Smaller reporting company

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Emerging growth company

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC

Large accelerated filer

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Accelerated filer

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Non-accelerated filer

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Smaller reporting company

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Emerging growth company

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.


Sinclair, Inc.			☐


Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC			☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Sinclair, Inc.

Yes

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Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC

Yes

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As of May 4, 2026, there were 48,410,345 shares of Sinclair, Inc. Class A Common Stock outstanding and 23,755,236 shares of Sinclair, Inc. Class B Common Stock outstanding.

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GENERAL

This combined report on Form 10-Q is filed by both Sinclair, Inc. (“Sinclair”) and Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC (“SBG”). Certain information contained in this document relating to SBG is filed by Sinclair and separately by SBG. SBG makes no representation as to information relating to Sinclair or its subsidiaries, except as it may relate to SBG and its subsidiaries. References in this report to “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company,” and similar terms refer to Sinclair and its consolidated subsidiaries, including SBG, unless context indicates otherwise. SBG is a voluntary filer and files reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) as a means of compliance with reporting covenants in various debt instruments of Sinclair Television Group, Inc. (“STG”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SBG.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This report includes or incorporates forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Exchange Act, and the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions about us, including, among other things, the following risks. All risk factors are deemed to be related to both Sinclair and its subsidiaries, including SBG. Any risks only applicable to Sinclair are denoted as such.

Industry risks

•Financial and economic conditions, including inflation, may have an adverse impact on our industry, customers, business, and results of operations or financial condition;

•the performance of networks and syndicators that provide us with programming content, as well as the performance of internally originated programming;

•multi-channel video programming distributors (“MVPD”) and virtual MVPDs (“vMVPD,” and together with MVPDs, “Distributors”) subscriber churn due to the impact of technological changes, the proliferation of over-the-top (“OTT”) direct-to-consumer platforms, the loss of key entertainment and sports programming previously exclusively available to subscribers, and economic conditions on consumers’ desire to pay for subscription services;

•the business conditions of the Distributors we do business with and their ability to pay to broadcast our content on their distribution platforms;

•the loss of appeal of our local news, network content, syndicated program content, and sports programming, which may be unpredictable;

•the availability and cost of programming from networks and syndicators, as well as the cost of internally originated programming;

•for Sinclair, the availability and cost of rights to air professional tennis tournaments;

•our relationships with networks and their strategies to distribute their programming via means other than their local television affiliates, such as OTT or direct-to-consumer content;

•labor disputes and legislation and other union activity associated with film, acting, writing, music, and other guilds;

•the broadcasting community’s ability to develop and adopt a viable mobile digital broadcast television (“mobile DTV”) strategy and platform, such as the adoption of a next generation broadcast standard (“NextGen TV”), the consumer’s appetite for mobile television, and the industry’s acceptance of data distribution services;

•the impact of programming payments charged by networks pursuant to their affiliation agreements with broadcasters requiring compensation for network programming;

•the effects of declining live/appointment viewership as reported through rating systems and local television efforts to adopt and receive credit for same day viewing plus viewing on-demand thereafter;

•changes in television rating measurement methodologies that could negatively impact audience results;

•the ability of advertisers to coordinate and determine local advertising rates as a consortium;

•the lack of our ability to negotiate directly with vMVPDs for the distribution of much of our content;

•the operation of low power devices in the broadcast spectrum, which could interfere with our broadcast; and

•the impact of Distributors and OTTs offering “skinny” programming bundles that may not include television broadcast stations or other programming that we distribute.

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Regulatory risks

•The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) proceeding regarding the roll-out of NextGen TV and the sunset of ATSC 1.0 could impact business-use cases for the NextGen TV technology and the timeframe for the discontinuance of ATSC 1.0;

•the potential for additional governmental regulation of broadcasting or changes in those regulations and court actions interpreting those regulations, including ownership regulations limiting over-the-air television’s ability to compete effectively (including regulations relating to joint sales agreements (“JSA”), shared services agreements (“SSA”), local marketing agreements (“LMA”), the national ownership cap, and the UHF discount), arbitrary enforcement by the FCC including indecency regulations, retransmission consent regulations, and political or other advertising restrictions, such as payola rules;

•the impact of FCC and Congressional efforts which may restrict a television station’s retransmission consent negotiations;

•the impact of FCC rules requiring broadcast stations to publish, among other information, political advertising rates online;

•the potential impact of deregulation allowing the networks to purchase additional stations in our markets;

•the potential impact from changes in lowest unit rate applicability associated with political advertising spots;

•our ability to obtain regulatory approval for transactions related to FCC licenses;

•the potential impact from changes in industry ownership and multicast rules;

•our response to corporate social responsibility considerations, and compliance with laws and regulations related thereto; and

•the impact of foreign government rules related to digital and online assets.

Risks specific to us

•Our ability to attract and maintain local, national, and network advertising and successfully participate in new sales channels such as programmatic and addressable advertising through business partnership ventures and the development of technology;

•our ability to service our debt obligations and operate our business under restrictions contained in our financing agreements;

•our use of derivative financial instruments to reduce interest rate risk may result in added volatility in the amount of interest expense recorded within our financial results and the amount of cash interest paid;

•our ability to successfully implement and monetize our own content management system designed to provide our viewers significantly improved content via the internet and other digital platforms;

•our ability to successfully negotiate retransmission consent and distribution agreements for our existing and any acquired businesses with favorable terms;

•the ability of stations which we consolidate, but do not negotiate on their behalf, to successfully renegotiate retransmission consent and affiliation fees (cable network fees) agreements and comply with laws and regulations that apply to them;

•our ability to renew our FCC licenses;

•our ability to identify investment opportunities;

•our ability to successfully integrate any acquired businesses, as well as the success of our new content and distribution initiatives in a competitive environment, including CHARGE!, ROAR, Comet, The Nest, podcasts, other original programming, mobile DTV, FAST channels, and direct-to-consumer platforms;

•our ability to maintain our affiliation and programming service agreements with our networks and program service providers and, at renewal, to successfully negotiate these agreements with favorable terms;

•our ability to generate synergies and leverage new revenue opportunities;

•changes in the makeup of the population in the areas where our stations are located;

•our ability to effectively respond to technology affecting our industry;

•our ability to deploy NextGen TV nationwide, including the ability and appetite of manufacturers to install the technology within their products, as well as monetize the associated technology;

•the strength of ratings for our local news broadcasts including our news sharing arrangements;

•risks associated with the use or delayed use of artificial intelligence by us and third parties, including our use or delayed use in the operations of our business;

•the results of prior year tax audits by taxing authorities;

•for Sinclair, our ability to execute on our investment and growth strategies related to our subsidiary, Sinclair Ventures, LLC (“Ventures”); and

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•our ability to monetize our investments in real estate, venture capital and private equity holdings, and direct strategic investments in companies.

General risks

•The impact of changes in national and regional economies and credit and capital markets, including the impact of potential tariffs and trade restrictions;

•loss of consumer confidence;

•the potential impact of changes in tax law;

•the activities of our competitors;

•risks associated with the inability of key suppliers and other third parties to provide services to us;

•geopolitical conditions, including the war in Ukraine, conflicts in the Middle East, potential tariffs and international trade sanctions, could negatively impact global supply prices and disrupt supply chain levels, which could negatively impact the operations of us, our customers, our vendors, and our Distributors;

•natural disasters and pandemics that impact our employees, Distributors, advertisers, suppliers, stations, and networks; and

•cybersecurity incidents, data privacy, and other information technology failures related to us, our vendors and those within our vendors’ supply chain have and in the future may, adversely affect us and disrupt our operations.

Other matters set forth in this report, including the Risk Factors set forth in Item 1A of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, may also cause actual results in the future to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. However, additional factors and risks not currently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also cause actual results in the future to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date on which they are made. We undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. In light of these risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, events described in the forward-looking statements discussed in this report might not occur.

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

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SINCLAIR, INC.

SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, LLC

FORM 10-Q

FOR THE QUARTER ENDED MARCH 31, 2026

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION			2

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS			4

ITEM 1A. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF SINCLAIR, INC. (UNAUDITED)			4

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS			5

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS			6

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)			7

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY AND NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS			8

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS			10

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS			11

ITEM 1B. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, LLC (UNAUDITED)			28

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS			29

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS			30

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS			31

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF MEMBER’S DEFICIT AND NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS			32

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS			34

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS			35

ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS			50

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK			61

ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES			62

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION			63

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS			63

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS			63

ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS			63

ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES			63

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES			63

ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION			63

ITEM 6. EXHIBITS			64

SIGNATURE			65

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ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

This report includes the Consolidated Financial Statements of Sinclair and SBG in Item 1A and Item 1B, respectively.

ITEM 1A. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF SINCLAIR, INC.

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SINCLAIR, INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in millions, except share and per share data) (Unaudited)


	As of March 31, 2026		As of December 31, 2025
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	844	$	866
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $5 as of both periods	631		687

Prepaid expenses and other current assets	153		147

Total current assets	1,628		1,700
Property and equipment, net	640		655
Operating lease assets	112		110


Goodwill	2,082		2,085
Indefinite-lived intangible assets	27		149
Customer relationships, net	265		269
Other definite-lived intangible assets, net	371		264
Other assets	651		717
Total assets (a)	$	5,776	$	5,949

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	$	475	$	496
Income taxes payable	21		21
Current portion of notes payable, finance leases, and commercial bank financing	23		25
Current portion of operating lease liabilities	25		24
Current portion of program contracts payable	57		70
Other current liabilities	71		67

Total current liabilities	672		703
Notes payable, finance leases, and commercial bank financing, less current portion	4,353		4,358
Operating lease liabilities, less current portion	113		112
Program contracts payable, less current portion	12		13
Deferred tax liabilities	57		213
Other long-term liabilities	177		180
Total liabilities (a)	5,384		5,579
Commitments and contingencies (See Note 4)

Shareholders’ equity:
Class A Common Stock, $.01 par value, 500,000,000 shares authorized, 48,254,010 and 45,979,350 shares issued and outstanding, respectively	1		1
Class B Common Stock, $.01 par value, 140,000,000 shares authorized, 23,755,236 and 23,755,236 shares issued and outstanding, respectively, convertible into Class A Common Stock	—		—
Additional paid-in capital	635		613
Accumulated deficit	(169)		(171)

Total Sinclair shareholders’ equity	467		443
Noncontrolling interests	(75)		(73)
Total equity	392		370
Total liabilities and equity	$	5,776	$	5,949

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

(a) Our consolidated total assets as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 include total assets of variable interest entities (“VIE”) of $21 million and $30 million, respectively, which can only be used to settle the obligations of the VIEs. Our consolidated total liabilities as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 include total liabilities of VIEs of $5 million and $8 million, respectively, for which the creditors of the VIEs have no recourse to us. See Note 7. Variable Interest Entities.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in millions, except share and per share data) (Unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
REVENUE:
Media revenue	$	801	$	770
Non-media revenue	6		6
Total revenue	807		776

OPERATING EXPENSES:
Media programming and production expenses	412		418
Media selling, general and administrative expenses	214		192
Amortization of program costs	18		19
Non-media expenses	15		11
Depreciation of property and equipment	26		26
Corporate general and administrative expenses	49		52
Amortization of definite-lived intangible assets	39		36


Loss on asset dispositions and other, net	7		8

Total operating expenses	780		762
Operating income	27		14

OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE):
Interest expense including amortization of debt discount and deferred financing costs	(85)		(144)
Gain on extinguishment of debt	—		2
Loss from equity method investments	(1)		(6)
Other expense, net	(78)		(66)
Total other expense, net	(164)		(214)
Loss before income taxes	(137)		(200)
INCOME TAX BENEFIT	158		46
NET INCOME (LOSS)	21		(154)

Net income attributable to the noncontrolling interests	(1)		(2)
NET INCOME (LOSS) ATTRIBUTABLE TO SINCLAIR	$	20	$	(156)

EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO SINCLAIR:
Basic earnings per share	$	0.28	$	(2.30)
Diluted earnings per share	$	0.28	$	(2.30)
Basic weighted average common shares outstanding (in thousands)	70,565		67,489
Diluted weighted average common and common equivalent shares outstanding (in thousands)	70,820		67,489

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

(in millions) (Unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
Net income (loss)	$	21	$	(154)
Unrealized loss on interest rate swap, net of tax	—		(1)

Comprehensive income (loss)	21		(155)

Comprehensive income attributable to the noncontrolling interests	(1)		(2)
Comprehensive income (loss) attributable to Sinclair	$	20	$	(157)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY AND NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS

(in millions, except share and per share data) (Unaudited)


		Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
		Sinclair Shareholders
		Class A Common Stock					Class B Common Stock				Additional Paid-In Capital		Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit)		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income		Noncontrolling Interests		Total Equity
	Shares		Values			Shares		Values
BALANCE, December 31, 2024		42,642,126		$	1		23,775,056		$	—	$	570	$	10	$	2	$	(67)	$	516
Dividends declared and paid on Class A and Class B Common Stock ($0.25 per share)		—		—			—		—		—		(17)		—		—		(17)


Class A Common Stock issued pursuant to employee benefit plans		3,114,083		—			—		—		27		—		—		—		27



Distributions to noncontrolling interests		—		—			—		—		—		—		—		(3)		(3)


Other comprehensive loss		—		—			—		—		—		—		(1)		—		(1)
Net (loss) income		—		—			—		—		—		(156)		—		2		(154)
BALANCE, March 31, 2025		45,756,209		$	1		23,775,056		$	—	$	597	$	(163)	$	1	$	(68)	$	368

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY AND NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS

(in millions, except share and per share data) (Unaudited)


		Three Months Ended March 31, 2026
		Sinclair Shareholders
		Class A Common Stock					Class B Common Stock				Additional Paid-In Capital		Accumulated Deficit		Noncontrolling Interests		Total Equity
	Shares		Values			Shares		Values
BALANCE, December 31, 2025		45,979,350		$	1		23,755,236		$	—	$	613	$	(171)	$	(73)	$	370

Dividends declared and paid on Class A and Class B Common Stock ($0.25 per share)		—		—			—		—		—		(18)		—		(18)



Class A Common Stock issued pursuant to employee benefit plans		2,274,660		—			—		—		20		—		—		20

Distributions to noncontrolling interests		—		—			—		—		—		—		(3)		(3)



Issuance of subsidiary stock awards		—		—			—		—		2		—		—		2
Net income		—		—			—		—		—		20		1		21
BALANCE, March 31, 2026		48,254,010		$	1		23,755,236		$	—	$	635	$	(169)	$	(75)	$	392

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in millions) (Unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net income (loss)	$	21	$	(154)
Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash flows from operating activities:

Amortization of definite-lived intangible and other assets	39		36
Depreciation of property and equipment	26		26
Amortization of program costs	18		19
Stock-based compensation	21		22
Deferred tax benefit	(156)		(138)
Loss on asset dispositions and other, net	7		8

Loss from equity method investments	1		6
Loss from investments	85		73
Distributions from investments	1		2
Gain on extinguishment of debt	—		(2)
Debt issuance costs	—		68

Change in assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable	55		(33)
Increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets	(39)		(29)
(Decrease) increase in accounts payable and accrued and other current liabilities	(12)		24
Net change in net income taxes payable/receivable	(1)		92
Decrease in program contracts payable	(19)		(19)

Other, net	(4)		4
Net cash flows from operating activities	43		5

CASH FLOWS USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Acquisition of property and equipment	(15)		(16)
Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired	(15)		(25)


Purchases of investments	(8)		(8)
Distributions and proceeds from investments	11		7
Other, net	3		—
Net cash flows used in investing activities	(24)		(42)

CASH FLOWS USED IN FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from notes payable and commercial bank financing	—		1,430
Repayments of notes payable, commercial bank financing, and finance leases	(9)		(1,331)

Dividends paid on Class A and Class B Common Stock	(18)		(17)

Debt issuance costs	—		(99)
Distributions to noncontrolling interests	(3)		(3)

Other, net	(11)		(9)
Net cash flows used in financing activities	(41)		(29)

NET DECREASE IN CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH	(22)		(66)
CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, beginning of period	866		697
CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, end of period	$	844	$	631

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:

Nature of Operations

Sinclair, Inc. (“Sinclair”) is a diversified media company with national reach and a strong focus on providing high-quality content on our local television stations and digital platforms. The content, distributed through our broadcast platform and third-party platforms, consists of programming provided by third-party networks and syndicators, local news, other original programming produced by us and our owned networks and professional sports. Additionally, we own digital media companies that are complementary to our extensive portfolio of television station related digital properties and we have interests in, own, manage, and/or operate technical and software services companies, research and development companies for the advancement of broadcast technology, and other media and non-media related businesses and assets, including real estate, venture capital, private equity, and direct investments.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2026, we had two reportable segments: local media and tennis. The local media segment consists primarily of our 177 broadcast television stations in 79 markets, which we own, provide programming and operating services pursuant to agreements commonly referred to as local marketing agreements (“LMA”), or provide sales services and other non-programming operating services pursuant to other outsourcing agreements (such as joint sales agreements (“JSA”) and shared services agreements (“SSA”)). These stations broadcast 646 channels as of March 31, 2026. For the purpose of this report, these 177 stations and 646 channels are referred to as “our” stations and channels. The tennis segment consists of Tennis Channel, a cable network which includes coverage of many of tennis’ top tournaments and original professional sports and tennis lifestyle shows; Tennis Channel International streaming service; Tennis Channel streaming service; TennisChannel 2, a 24-hour a day free ad-supported streaming television channel; and Tennis.com.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include our accounts and those of our wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries and VIEs for which we are the primary beneficiary. Noncontrolling interests represent a minority owner’s proportionate share of the equity in certain of our consolidated entities. All intercompany transactions and account balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

We consolidate VIEs when we are the primary beneficiary. We are the primary beneficiary of a VIE when we have the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the economic performance of the VIE and have the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive returns that would be significant to the VIE. See Note 7. Variable Interest Entities for more information on our VIEs.

Investments in entities over which we have significant influence but not control are accounted for using the equity method of accounting. Income from equity method investments represents our proportionate share of net income generated by equity method investees.

Interim Financial Statements

The consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 are unaudited. In the opinion of management, such financial statements have been presented on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements and include all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair statement of the consolidated balance sheets, consolidated statements of operations, consolidated statements of comprehensive (loss) income, consolidated statements of equity and noncontrolling interests, and consolidated statements of cash flows for these periods as adjusted for the adoption of recent accounting pronouncements.

As permitted under the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), the consolidated financial statements do not include all disclosures normally included with audited consolidated financial statements and, accordingly, should be read together with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 filed with the SEC. The consolidated statements of operations presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements are not necessarily representative of operations for an entire year.

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Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses in the consolidated financial statements and in the disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

Changes in Accounting Estimates

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, the Company reassessed the useful lives of certain FCC licenses previously classified as indefinite-lived intangible assets. Based on this reassessment, management determined that these licenses have finite useful lives and, accordingly, we reclassified $122 million of FCC licenses from indefinite-lived to definite-lived intangible assets which will be amortized over a 15-year life. We assessed our FCC licenses for impairment prior to completion of this change, concluding there were no impairment indicators.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2024, the FASB issued guidance requiring disclosure of disaggregated information about certain income statement expense line items. The guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.

In December 2025, the FASB issued guidance providing clarifications and organizational improvements to interim financial reporting guidance under Accounting Standard Codification 270. The guidance is effective for interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. We are currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.

Broadcast Television Programming

We have agreements with programming syndicators for the rights to television programming over contract periods, which generally run from one to three years. Contract payments are made in installments over terms that are generally equal to or shorter than the contract period. Pursuant to accounting guidance for the broadcasting industry, an asset and a liability for the rights acquired and obligations incurred under a license agreement are reported on the balance sheet when the cost of each program is known or reasonably determinable, the program material has been accepted by the licensee in accordance with the conditions of the license agreement, and the program is available for its first showing or telecast. The portion of program contracts which becomes payable within one year is reflected as a current liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

The rights to this programming are reflected in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets at the lower of unamortized cost or fair value. Program costs are amortized on a straight-line basis except for contracts greater than three years which are amortized utilizing an accelerated method. Program costs estimated by management to be amortized in the succeeding year are classified as current assets. Payments of program contract liabilities are typically made on a scheduled basis and are not affected by amortization or fair value adjustments.

We assess our program costs on a quarterly basis to ensure the costs are recorded at the lower of unamortized cost or fair value.

Non-cash Investing and Financing Activities

Leased assets obtained in exchange for new operating lease liabilities were $8 million and $3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. Non-cash investing activities included property and equipment purchases of $3 million and $5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

We received equity shares in investments valued at $5 million and $8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, in exchange for an obligation to deliver a similar value of advertising spots.

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we completed the acquisition and sale of certain television stations that included non-cash consideration as further described in Acquisitions and Station Disposals below.

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Revenue Recognition

The following table presents our revenue disaggregated by type and segment (in millions):


For the three months ended March 31, 2026	Local Media		Tennis		Other		Eliminations		Total
Distribution revenue	$	402	$	56	$	—	$	—	$	458
Core advertising revenue	261		13		40		(9)		305
Political advertising revenue	18		—		—		—		18
Other media, non-media, and intercompany revenue	20		1		6		(1)		26
Total revenue	$	701	$	70	$	46	$	(10)	$	807








For the three months ended March 31, 2025	Local Media		Tennis		Other		Eliminations		Total
Distribution revenue	$	395	$	56	$	—	$	—	$	451
Core advertising revenue	271		11		15		(5)		292
Political advertising revenue	6		—		—		—		6
Other media, non-media, and intercompany revenue	22		1		6		(2)		27
Total revenue	$	694	$	68	$	21	$	(7)	$	776

Distribution Revenue. We generate distribution revenue through fees received from these Distributors for the right to distribute our stations and other properties. Distribution arrangements are generally governed by multi-year contracts and the underlying fees are based upon a contractual monthly rate per subscriber. These arrangements represent licenses of intellectual property; revenue is recognized as the signal or network programming is provided to our customers (as usage occurs) which corresponds with the satisfaction of our performance obligation. Revenue is calculated based upon the contractual rate multiplied by an estimated number of subscribers. Our customers will remit payments based upon actual subscribers a short time after the conclusion of a month, which generally does not exceed 120 days. Historical adjustments to subscriber estimates have not been material.

Core Advertising Revenue. We generate core advertising revenue primarily from the sale of non-political advertising spots/impressions within our broadcast television and digital platforms.

Political Advertising Revenue. We generate political advertising revenue primarily from the sale of political advertising spots/impressions within our broadcast television and digital platforms.

In accordance with ASC 606, we do not disclose the value of unsatisfied performance obligations for (i) contracts with an original expected length of one year or less and (ii) distribution arrangements which are accounted for as a sales/usage-based royalty.

Deferred Revenue. We record deferred revenue when cash payments are received or due in advance of our performance, including amounts which are refundable. We classify deferred revenue as either current in other current liabilities or long-term in other long-term liabilities in our consolidated balance sheets based on the timing of when we expect to satisfy our performance obligations. Deferred revenue was $155 million and $149 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively, of which $87 million and $88 million, respectively, was reflected in other long-term liabilities in our consolidated balance sheets. Deferred revenue recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, included in the deferred revenue balance as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, was $19 million and $21 million, respectively.

For the three months ended March 31, 2026, two customers accounted for 11% and 11%, respectively, of our total revenue. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, two customers accounted for 11% and 11%, respectively, of our total revenue. As of March 31, 2026, three customers accounted for 12%, 10%, and 10%, respectively, of our accounts receivable, net. As of December 31, 2025, three customers accounted for 12%, 11%, and 10%, respectively, of our accounts receivable, net. For purposes of this disclosure, a single customer may include multiple entities under common control.

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Acquisitions and Station Disposals

In February 2026, we acquired the non-license assets of KMYT and KOKI in Tulsa, OK, along with a purchase option to acquire the four television stations that were previously sold in 2025 (as described below). The total consideration for the transaction was $52 million and included the Company transferring the non-license assets of KLEW in Spokane, WA and KEPR, KIMA, KUNW, KORX, and KVVK in Yakima, WA valued at $12 million, the forgiveness of certain outstanding promissory notes and working capital balances in the amount of $21 million, and cash payments (including cash payments related to certain holdbacks) of $19 million. The acquired assets and liabilities were recorded at fair value as of the closing date of the transaction. Based upon our preliminary purchase price allocation, we recorded $21 million of definite-lived intangible assets, $10 million of property and equipment, $19 million of other assets, and $2 million of goodwill.

In March 2025, Sinclair Ventures, LLC (“Ventures”) completed the acquisition of CPX Interactive LLC (“Digital Remedy”) for approximately $30 million in cash, net of cash acquired of $5 million, in which Ventures acquired the remaining 75% of the business they did not already own. The acquired assets and liabilities were recorded at fair value as of the closing date of the transactions, which included $22 million of definite-lived intangible assets and $15 million of goodwill.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we entered into an asset purchase agreement with a counterparty to sell our owned stations within Milwaukee, WI (WVTV), Springfield, IL (WICS/WICD), Ottumwa, IA (KTVO), and Quincy, IL (KHQA) for approximately $30 million and accrued the estimated loss we expected to recognize upon closing of the sale of approximately $17 million, which is included within loss on asset dispositions and other, net within our consolidated statements of operations and our local media segment within Note 6. Segment Data for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and was recorded to reflect the underlying assets at the lower of carrying value and fair value.

Income Taxes

Our income tax provision for all periods consists of federal and state income taxes. The tax provision for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 is based on the estimated effective tax rate applicable for the full year after taking into account discrete tax items and the effects of the noncontrolling interests. We provide a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets if we determine that it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. In evaluating our ability to realize net deferred tax assets, we consider all available evidence, both positive and negative, including our past operating results, tax planning strategies, current and cumulative losses, and forecasts of future taxable income. In considering these sources of taxable income, we must make certain judgments that are based on the plans and estimates used to manage our underlying businesses on a long-term basis. A valuation allowance has been provided for deferred tax assets related to a certain amount of our available state net operating loss carryforwards based on past operating results, expected timing of the reversals of existing temporary basis differences, alternative tax strategies and projected future taxable income.

Our effective income tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2026 was greater than the statutory rate primarily due to substantially magnified impact of many 2026 items as a result of small estimated annual pre-tax income. Our effective income tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2025 approximated the statutory rate.

We do not believe that our liability for unrecognized tax benefits would be materially impacted, in the next twelve months, as a result of the expected statute of limitations expirations, the application of limits under available state administrative practice exceptions, and the resolution of examination issues and settlements with federal and certain state tax authorities.

Reclassifications

Certain reclassifications have been made to prior years’ consolidated financial statements to conform to the current year’s presentation.

Subsequent Events

In April 2026, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share, payable on June 9, 2026, to holders of record at the close of business on May 26, 2026.

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2. OTHER ASSETS:

Other assets as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 consisted of the following (in millions):


	As of March 31, 2026		As of December 31, 2025
Equity method investments	$	19	$	21
Other investments	316		402
Notes receivable	38		31
Income tax receivable	152		150
Post-retirement plan assets	50		52
Other	76		61
Total other assets	$	651	$	717

Equity Method Investments

We have a portfolio of investments in a number of entities that are primarily focused on the development of real estate and other media and non-media businesses. No investments were individually significant for the periods presented.

Other Investments

We measure our investments, excluding equity method investments, at fair value or, in situations where fair value is not readily determinable, we have the option to value investments at cost plus observable changes in value, less impairment. Additionally, certain investments are measured at net asset value (“NAV”).

As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, we held $141 million and $223 million, respectively, in investments measured at fair value. As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, we held $142 million and $150 million, respectively, in investments measured at NAV. We recognized a fair value adjustment loss of $85 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and a fair value adjustment loss of $73 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, associated with these investments, which are reflected in other expense, net in our consolidated statements of operations. As of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, our unfunded commitments related to our investments valued using the NAV practical expedient totaled $37 million and $42 million, respectively.

Investments accounted for utilizing the measurement alternative were $33 million and $29 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. There were no adjustments to the carrying amount of investments accounted for utilizing the measurement alternative for either of the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

3. NOTES PAYABLE, FINANCE LEASES, AND COMMERCIAL BANK FINANCING:

Credit Agreement and Notes

Sinclair Television Group, Inc. (“STG”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC (“SBG”), is party to two bank credit agreements, the new credit agreement dated February 12, 2025 (the “New Credit Agreement”) and an existing credit agreement that was amended as of February 12, 2025 (the “Amended Credit Agreement).

The New Credit Agreement includes a financial maintenance covenant, the first-out first lien leverage ratio (as defined in the New Credit Agreement), which requires such ratio not to exceed 3.5x, measured as of the end of each fiscal quarter, which is only applicable if 35% or more of the capacity (as a percentage of total commitments) under the $575 million first-out first lien revolving commitments (the “First-Out Revolving Credit Facility”), measured as of the last day of each fiscal quarter, is utilized as of such date. Since there was no utilization under the First-Out Revolving Credit Facility as of March 31, 2026, STG was not subject to the financial maintenance covenant under the New Credit Agreement. As of March 31, 2026, the STG first-out first lien leverage ratio was below 3.5x. The New Credit Agreement contains other restrictions and covenants with which STG was in compliance as of March 31, 2026.

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During the first quarter of 2025, STG completed a series of financing transactions and for the three months ended March 31, 2025, recognized a gain on extinguishment of the 4.125% Senior Secured Notes due 2030 and 5.125% Senior Notes due 2027 of $5 million and $3 million, respectively, and a loss on extinguishment of the Term Loan B-2 of $6 million.

In April 2026, STG repurchased $93 million aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan B-6 and $72 million aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan B-7, both at discounts of face value.

Finance Leases to Affiliates

The current portion of notes payable, finance leases, and commercial bank financing in our consolidated balance sheets includes finance leases to affiliates of $3 million as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. Notes payable, finance leases, and commercial bank financing, less current portion, in our consolidated balance sheets includes finance leases to affiliates of $6 million as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. See Note 8. Related Person Transactions.

Debt of Variable Interest Entities and Guarantees of Third-Party Obligations

We jointly, severally, unconditionally, and irrevocably guaranteed $2 million of debt of certain third parties as of December 31, 2025, all of which related to consolidated VIEs and was included in our consolidated balance sheets. We guarantee certain obligations of the Marquee Sports Network (“Marquee”) subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $331 million for the years 2026 through 2029. As of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, our estimated obligation was $15 million. Of this estimated obligation, the Company paid $5 million during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and $10 million during the year ended December 31, 2025. See Note 4. Commitments and Contingencies for further discussion.

Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility

On November 6, 2025, STG and one of its subsidiaries entered into a three-year, up to $375 million revolving accounts receivable securitization facility (the “AR Facility”) with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, which matures on November 6, 2028, in order to enable STG to raise incremental, low-cost capital. Amounts outstanding under the A/R Facility bear interest at SOFR plus 1.25%. The amount of actual availability under the A/R Facility is subject to change based on the level of eligible receivables sold by certain subsidiaries of STG identified therein (the “Originators”) to STG. Eligibility of the receivables is determined by a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, credit ratings of the Originators’ customers, customer concentration levels, and certain characteristics of the accounts receivable being transferred. The total amount outstanding under the A/R Facility was $375 million as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. Interest expense related to the A/R Facility was $5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026.

Interest Rate Collar

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, we entered into two interest collar agreements in order to manage a portion of our exposure to variable interest rates. The first agreement has a notional amount of $100 million, an effective date of March 3, 2026, a termination date of August 31, 2027, an interest rate ceiling of 3.75%, and an interest rate floor of 2.67%. The second agreement has a notional amount of $100 million, an effective date of March 30, 2026, a termination date of March 30, 2027, an interest rate ceiling of 4.25%, and an interest rate floor of 3.65%. The activity associated with these agreements was immaterial for the three months ended March 31, 2026.

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4. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES:

Litigation, Claims, and Regulatory Matters

We are a party to lawsuits, claims, and regulatory matters from time to time in the ordinary course of business. Actions currently pending are in various stages and no material judgments or decisions have been rendered by hearing boards or courts in connection with such actions. Except as noted below, we do not believe the outcome of these matters, individually or in the aggregate, will have a material effect on our financial statements.

FCC Matters

On May 22, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) released an Order and Consent Decree pursuant to which the Company agreed to pay $48 million to resolve the matters covered by a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (“NAL”) issued in December 2017 proposing a $13 million fine for alleged violations of the FCC’s sponsorship identification rules by the Company and certain of its subsidiaries, the FCC’s investigation of the allegations raised in the Hearing Designation Order issued in connection with the Company’s proposed acquisition of Tribune, and a retransmission related matter. The Company submitted the $48 million payment on August 19, 2020. As part of the consent decree, the Company also agreed to implement a four-year compliance plan, which terminated on May 29, 2024. Two petitions were filed on June 8, 2020 seeking reconsideration of the consent decree. The Company filed an opposition to the petitions on June 18, 2020, and the petitions remain pending.

On September 1, 2020, one of the individuals who filed a petition for reconsideration of the consent decree filed a petition to deny the license renewal application of WBFF(TV), Baltimore, MD, and the license renewal applications of two other Baltimore, MD stations: WUTB(TV), which the Company subsequently acquired from Deerfield Media in November 2025, and Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation (“Cunningham”) station WNUV(TV), with which the Company has an LMA. On January 18, 2024, a motion was filed to request substitution of the petitioner, who is deceased. On June 27, 2025, the FCC (i) denied the motion for substitution; (ii) dismissed the petition to deny; and (iii) granted the license renewal applications of WBFF(TV), WUTB(TV), and WNUV(TV). An application for review of the FCC’s decision was filed on July 28, 2025 on behalf of the individual who unsuccessfully sought to be substituted for the petitioner in the proceeding. The Company timely filed an opposition to the application for review and the matter remains pending. On April 14, 2025, the same attorney who filed the petition against the renewal applications filed a similar petition to deny, on behalf of a different client, against assignment applications filed by the Company seeking FCC consent to sell certain stations to a third party. On July 1, 2025, the FCC dismissed that petition to deny and granted the applications. An application for review of the decision to grant the assignment applications was filed on behalf of the petitioner on July 30, 2025. The Company timely filed an opposition to the application for review and the matter remains pending.

On September 2, 2020, the FCC adopted a Memorandum Opinion and Order and NAL against the licensees of several stations with whom the Company has LMAs, JSAs, and/or SSAs in response to a complaint regarding those stations’ retransmission consent negotiations. The NAL proposed a $0.5 million penalty for each station, totaling $9 million. The licensees filed a response to the NAL on October 15, 2020, asking the FCC to dismiss the proceeding or, alternatively, to reduce the proposed forfeiture to $25,000 per station. On July 28, 2021, the FCC issued a forfeiture order in which the $0.5 million penalty was upheld for all but one station. A Petition for Reconsideration of the forfeiture order was filed on August 7, 2021. On March 14, 2022, the FCC released a Memorandum Opinion and Order and Order on Reconsideration, which reaffirmed the forfeiture order, dismissed (and in the alternative, denied) the Petition for Reconsideration, and stated that because the fines were not paid within the period stated in the July 2021 forfeiture order the FCC may refer the case to the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) for enforcement of the forfeiture pursuant to Section 504 of the Communications Act. Our understanding is that this matter remains pending. The Company is not a party to this forfeiture order.

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On September 21, 2022, the FCC released an NAL against the licensees of a number of stations, including 83 Company stations and several stations with whom the Company has LMAs, JSAs, and/or SSAs (or with whom the Company had LMAs, JSAs, and/or SSAs and has since acquired), for violation of the FCC’s limitations on commercial matter in children’s television programming related to KidsClick network programming distributed by the Company in 2018. The NAL proposed a fine of $2.7 million against the Company, and fines ranging from $20,000 to $26,000 per station for the other licensees, including the LMA, JSA, and/or SSA stations, for a total of $3.4 million. On October 21, 2022, the Company filed a written response seeking reduction of the proposed fine amount. On September 6, 2024, the FCC issued a forfeiture order imposing the fine as proposed in the NAL. The Company and all other affected licensees filed a joint petition for reconsideration of the forfeiture order on October 7, 2024. On June 27, 2025, the FCC adopted an Order and Consent Decree pursuant to which the Company agreed to make a voluntary contribution of $500,000 to resolve, without any admission of liability, the forfeiture order (with respect to Company stations), a closed captioning investigation of Company station WUHF in Rochester, NY, and matters relating to certain of the Company’s pending station renewal applications. As part of the consent decree, the Company also agreed to implement a two-year compliance plan relating to the FCC’s limits on commercial matter in children’s programming and closed captioning rules, and the FCC agreed to grant the license renewal applications of all Company stations involved in the matters resolved by the consent decree. The consent decree states the forfeiture order will be resolved by separate action with respect to the non-Company licensees named in the forfeiture order, and to the Company’s knowledge all but one of such non-Company licensees have entered into non-monetary consent decrees with the FCC and agreed to similar compliance plans with respect to the FCC’s limits on commercial matter in children’s programming. The Company made the $500,000 voluntary contribution on July 9, 2025.

Other Matters

On November 6, 2018, the Company agreed to enter into a proposed consent decree with the DOJ. This consent decree resolves the DOJ’s investigation into the sharing of pacing information among certain stations in some local markets. The DOJ filed the consent decree and related documents in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on November 13, 2018. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia entered the consent decree on May 22, 2019. The consent decree is not an admission of any wrongdoing by the Company and does not subject the Company to any monetary damages or penalties. The Company believes that even if the pacing information was shared as alleged, it would not have impacted any pricing of advertisements or the competitive nature of the market. The consent decree requires the Company to adopt certain antitrust compliance measures, including the appointment of an Antitrust Compliance Officer, consistent with what the DOJ has required in previous consent decrees in other industries. The consent decree also requires the Company’s stations not to exchange pacing and certain other information with other stations in their local markets, which the Company’s management had already instructed them not to do.

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The Company is aware of twenty-two putative class action lawsuits that were filed against the Company following published reports of the DOJ investigation into the exchange of pacing data within the industry. On October 3, 2018, these lawsuits were consolidated in the Northern District of Illinois. The consolidated action alleges that the Company and thirteen other broadcasters conspired to fix prices for commercials to be aired on broadcast television stations throughout the United States and engaged in unlawful information sharing, in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The consolidated action seeks damages, attorneys’ fees, costs and interest, as well as injunctions against adopting practices or plans that would restrain competition in the ways the plaintiffs have alleged. The Court denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss on November 6, 2020. Discovery commenced shortly after that and is continuing. On December 8, 2023, the Court granted final approval of the settlements the plaintiffs had reached with four of the original defendants (CBS, Fox, Cox Media, and ShareBuilders), who agreed to pay a total of $48 million to settle the plaintiffs’ claims against them. The plaintiffs are continuing to pursue their claims against the Company and the other non-settling defendants, and fact discovery closes on June 1, 2026. On December 6, 2024, the plaintiffs filed a motion seeking sanctions against the Company in connection with the loss of certain cell phone data. On November 18, 2025, the Court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order on the plaintiffs’ motion seeking sanctions, declining as premature the plaintiffs’ request to present evidence of Sinclair’s spoliation at summary judgment and trial, and imposing monetary sanctions on Sinclair for the costs of the plaintiffs’ investigation between April 30, 2024 and the filing of the motion seeking sanctions. On February 20, 2025, Special Master Richard Levie issued Report and Recommendation No. 3 addressing the plaintiffs’ challenges to certain of non-settling defendants’ privilege log entries (“Levie R&R No. 3”), which recommended that the Court compel disclosure of certain documents Sinclair and the other non-settling defendants withheld from discovery based on assertions of privilege. On October 20, 2025, the Court issued an order adopting Levie R&R No. 3 and denying the objections to Levie R&R No. 3 made by Sinclair and the other non-settling defendants, compelling the production of 6,313 documents Sinclair withheld as privileged. On April 8, 2026, the Company filed a Motion for Reconsideration regarding 519 of these documents. Special Master Wayne R. Andersen has addressed the plaintiffs’ remaining challenges to certain of Sinclair’s and other non-settling defendants’ privilege log entries. On September 29, 2025, Special Master Andersen issued Report and Recommendation No. 3 (“Andersen R&R No. 3”); on October 23, 2025, Special Master Andersen issued Report and Recommendation No. 6 (“Andersen R&R No. 6”); on November 17, 2025, Special Master Andersen issued Report and Recommendation No. 8 (“Andersen R&R No. 8”); on November 18, 2025, Special Master Andersen issued Report and Recommendation No. 9 (“Andersen R&R No. 9”); and on December 16, 2025, Special Master Andersen issued Report and Recommendation No. 13 (“Andersen R&R No. 13”). In each report and recommendation, Special Master Andersen recommended granting in part and denying in part the plaintiffs’ challenges. No party appealed Andersen R&R No. 3, which compelled the production of two documents Sinclair withheld as privileged. The plaintiffs objected to Andersen R&R No. 6, Andersen R&R No. 8, Andersen R&R No. 9, and Andersen R&R No. 13. On January 22, 2026, the Court issued an order rejecting plaintiffs’ objections to and adopting Andersen R&R No. 6, Andersen R&R No. 8, and Andersen R&R No. 9. Andersen R&R No. 6 compelled the production of 252 documents, Andersen R&R No. 8 compelled the production of 79 documents, and Andersen R&R No. 9 compelled the production of 10 documents. On February 23, 2026, the Court issued an order rejecting plaintiffs’ objections to and adopting Andersen R&R No. 13. Andersen R&R No. 13 compelled the production of 11 documents. Andersen R&R Nos. 3, 6, 8, 9, and 13 collectively upheld the Company’s privilege claims over 1,639 documents. On January 23, 2026, the Court issued a new scheduling order, setting a trial date of November 1, 2027. The Company continues to believe the lawsuits are without merit and intends to vigorously defend itself against all such claims.

We have provided a guarantee that requires us to provide funding to Marquee under certain circumstances. On July 19, 2024, Marquee sent us a funding notice seeking $29 million under the Marquee guarantee by August 1, 2024 purportedly to make payments under certain agreements to affiliates of the Chicago Cubs, an affiliate of which is also a co-owner of Marquee. Based on the information provided to us by Marquee, Marquee has sufficient cash to make such payments without funding under the Marquee guarantee. For this and other reasons, we do not believe we are contractually required to provide funding under the Marquee guarantee at this time and have so informed Marquee. On August 2, 2024, Marquee sent us another letter claiming that our failure to timely pay the amounts subject to Marquee’s funding notice constitutes a breach of the Marquee guarantee and requesting payment of such amounts no later than August 17, 2024 at which time Marquee has stated it will pursue any and all available remedies pursuant to the Marquee guarantee. As of January 1, 2025, we determined we had no further obligations under the guarantee agreement. Marquee disputed this position, and on June 9, 2025, we entered into a binding term sheet to settle the matter. As part of the settlement, the parties agreed that the guarantee would be in effect through 2029; however, the maximum obligation under the guarantee agreement was reduced. As a result of the execution of this binding term sheet, we have concluded that our obligation to pay under a portion of the guarantee is probable and the loss related thereto could be reasonably estimated, thus recorded an estimated obligation related to this arrangement during the year ended December 31, 2025. See Note 3. Notes Payable, Finance Leases, and Commercial Bank Financing for further information. Because loss contingencies are inherently unpredictable and unfavorable developments can occur, the assessment requires judgment about future events. Moreover, there is no assurance that contingencies will be satisfied and the ultimate loss may differ materially from the estimated obligation we have recorded.

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5. EARNINGS PER SHARE:

The following table reconciles income (numerator) and shares (denominator) used in our computations of basic and diluted earnings per share for the periods presented (in millions, except share amounts which are reflected in thousands):


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
Income (Numerator)
Net income (loss)	$	21	$	(154)

Net income attributable to the noncontrolling interests	(1)		(2)

Numerator for basic and diluted earnings per common share available to common shareholders	$	20	$	(156)

Shares (Denominator)
Basic weighted-average common shares outstanding	70,565		67,489
Dilutive effect of stock-settled appreciation rights and outstanding stock options	255		—
Diluted weighted-average common and common equivalent shares outstanding	70,820		67,489

The following table shows the weighted-average stock-settled appreciation rights and outstanding stock options (in thousands) that are excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per common share as the inclusion of such shares would be anti-dilutive:


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026	2025
Weighted-average stock-settled appreciation rights and outstanding stock options excluded	4,776	5,434

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6. SEGMENT DATA:

We measure segment performance based on operating income (loss). For the quarter ended March 31, 2026, we had two reportable segments, local media and tennis. Our local media segment includes our television stations, original networks and content and provides these through free over-the-air programming to television viewing audiences for stations in markets located throughout the continental United States, as well as distributes the content of these stations to MVPDs for distribution to their customers in exchange for contractual fees. See Revenue Recognition under Note 1. Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies for further detail. Our tennis segment provides viewers coverage of many of tennis’ top tournaments and original professional sport and tennis lifestyle shows. Other and corporate are not reportable segments but are included for reconciliation purposes. Other primarily consists of non-broadcast digital and internet solutions, technical services, and non-media investments. Corporate costs primarily include our costs to operate as a public company and to operate our corporate headquarters location. All our businesses are located within the United States. The local media segment assets are owned and operated by SBG, the assets of the tennis segment are owned and operated by Ventures, and the assets in other and corporate are owned and operated by Ventures.

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Segment financial information is included in the following tables for the periods presented (in millions):


As of March 31, 2026	Local Media		Tennis		Other & Corporate		Eliminations		Consolidated
Assets	$	4,490	$	265	$	1,021	$	—	$	5,776


For the three months ended March 31, 2026	Local Media		Tennis		Other & Corporate		Eliminations			Consolidated
Revenue	$	701	$	70	$	46	$	(10)	(b)	$	807
Media programming and production expenses	382		30		—		—			412
Media selling, general and administrative expenses	171		19		34		(10)			214
Depreciation of property and equipment and amortization of definite-lived intangibles and other assets	60		5		—		—			65
Amortization of program costs	18		—		—		—			18
Corporate general and administrative expenses	34		1		14		—			49

(Gain) loss on asset dispositions and other, net	(1)		—		8		—			7

Other segment items (a)	2		—		13		—			15
Operating income (loss)	$	35	$	15	$	(23)	$	—		$	27

Interest expense including amortization of debt discount and deferred financing costs	$	85	$	—	$	—	$	—		$	85
Loss from equity method investments	—		—		(1)		—			(1)

Other income (expense), net	4		—		(82)		—			(78)
Loss before income taxes										$	(137)


For the three months ended March 31, 2025	Local Media		Tennis		Other & Corporate		Eliminations			Consolidated
Revenue	$	694	$	68	$	21	$	(7)	(b)	$	776
Media programming and production expenses	390		27		1		—			418
Media selling, general and administrative expenses	170		18		11		(7)			192
Depreciation of property and equipment and amortization of definite-lived intangibles and other assets	56		5		1		—			62
Amortization of program costs	19		—		—		—			19
Corporate general and administrative expenses	37		—		15		—			52

Loss on asset dispositions and other, net	8		—		—		—			8

Other segment items (a)	2		—		9		—			11
Operating income (loss)	$	12	$	18	$	(16)	$	—		$	14

Interest expense including amortization of debt discount and deferred financing costs	$	144	$	—	$	—	$	—		$	144
Loss from equity method investments	—		(1)		(5)		—			(6)
Gain on extinguishment of debt	2		—		—		—			2
Other income (expense), net	3		—		(69)		—			(66)
Loss before income taxes										$	(200)

(a)Other segment items relate primarily to non-media expenses.

(b)Includes $8 million and $4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, of revenue for services provided by other to local media, which is eliminated in consolidation.

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7. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES:

Certain of our stations provide services to other station owners within the same respective market through agreements, such as LMAs, where we provide programming, sales, operational, and administrative services, and JSAs and SSAs, where we provide non-programming, sales, operational, and administrative services. In certain cases, we have also entered into purchase agreements or options to purchase the license related assets of the licensee. We typically own the majority of the non-license assets of the stations, and in some cases where the licensee acquired the license assets concurrent with our acquisition of the non-license assets of the station, we have provided guarantees to the bank for the licensee’s acquisition financing. The terms of the agreements vary but generally have initial terms of over five years with several optional renewal terms. Based on the terms of the agreements and the significance of our investment in the stations, we are the primary beneficiary when, subject to the ultimate control of the licensees, we have the power to direct the activities which significantly impact the economic performance of the VIE through the services we provide and we absorb losses and returns that would be considered significant to the VIEs. The fees paid between us and the licensees pursuant to these arrangements are eliminated in consolidation.

The carrying amounts and classification of the assets and liabilities of the VIEs mentioned above, which have been included in our consolidated balance sheets as of the dates presented, were as follows (in millions):


	As of March 31, 2026		As of December 31, 2025
ASSETS
Current assets:


Accounts receivable, net	$	3	$	5
Other current assets	—		2
Total current assets	3		7


Property and equipment, net	6		5

Goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets	1		13
Definite-lived intangible assets, net	11		5

Total assets	$	21	$	30

LIABILITIES
Current liabilities:
Other current liabilities	$	2	$	6


Notes payable, finance leases and commercial bank financing, less current portion	3		4


Other long-term liabilities	3		3
Total liabilities	$	8	$	13

The amounts above represent the combined assets and liabilities of the VIEs described above, for which we are the primary beneficiary. Total liabilities associated with certain outsourcing agreements and purchase options with certain VIEs, which are excluded from the above, were $115 million and $116 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively, as these amounts are eliminated in consolidation. The assets of each of these consolidated VIEs can only be used to settle the obligations of the VIE. As of March 31, 2026, all of the liabilities are non-recourse to us except for the debt of certain VIEs. See Debt of Variable Interest Entities and Guarantees of Third-Party Obligations under Note 3. Notes Payable, Finance Leases, and Commercial Bank Financing for further discussion. The risk and reward characteristics of the VIEs are similar.

Other VIEs

We have several investments in entities which are considered VIEs. However, we do not participate in the management of these entities, including the day-to-day operating decisions or other decisions which would allow us to control the entity, and therefore, we are not considered the primary beneficiary of these VIEs.

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The carrying amounts of our investments in these VIEs for which we are not the primary beneficiary were $66 million and $69 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively, and are included in other assets in our consolidated balance sheets. See Note 2. Other Assets for more information related to our equity investments. Our maximum exposure is equal to the carrying value of our investments. The income and loss related to equity method investments and other investments are recorded in loss from equity method investments and other expense, net, respectively, in our consolidated statements of operations. We recorded losses of $2 million and $1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

8. RELATED PERSON TRANSACTIONS:

Transactions With Our Controlling Shareholders

David, Frederick, J. Duncan, and Robert Smith (collectively, the “controlling shareholders”) are brothers and hold substantially all of our Class B Common Stock and some of our Class A Common Stock. We engaged in the following transactions with them and/or entities in which they have substantial interests:

Leases. Certain assets used by us and our operating subsidiaries are leased from entities owned by the controlling shareholders. Lease payments made to these entities were $2 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. For further information, see Note 3. Notes Payable, Finance Leases, and Commercial Bank Financing.

Charter Aircraft. We lease aircraft owned by certain controlling shareholders. For all leases, we incurred expenses of $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

The Baltimore Sun. David Smith is the majority shareholder of The Baltimore Sun. We have entered into agreements with The Baltimore Sun to provide independent contractor services, sales representation, news resource sharing, and content sharing. In relation to these agreements, we recorded revenue of $0.5 million and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Atlantic Automotive Corporation. We sell advertising time to Atlantic Automotive Corporation ("Atlantic Automotive"), a

holding company that owns automobile dealerships and an automobile leasing company. David Smith has a controlling interest

in, and is a member of the board of directors of, Atlantic Automotive. We received payments for advertising totaling less than $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

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Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation

As of March 1, 2026, Cunningham owns a portfolio of television stations, including: WNUV-TV Baltimore, Maryland; WRGT-TV Dayton, Ohio; WVAH-TV Charleston, West Virginia; WMYA-TV Anderson, South Carolina; WTTE-TV Columbus, Ohio; WDBB-TV Birmingham, Alabama; WBSF-TV Flint, Michigan; KRNV-DT/KENV-DT Reno, Nevada/Salt Lake City, Utah; and KTXD-TV in Dallas, Texas (collectively, the “Cunningham Stations”). Certain of our stations provide services to certain Cunningham Stations pursuant to LMAs or JSAs and SSAs. See Note 7. Variable Interest Entities, for further discussion of the scope of services provided under these types of arrangements. The agreements with KRNV-DT/KENV-DT, WBSF-TV and WDBB-TV expire between November 2029 and April 2030 and certain stations have renewal provisions for successive eight-year periods. On March 1, 2026, we exercised purchase options for WGTU-TV/WGTQ-TV Traverse City/Cadillac, Michigan; WEMT-TV Tri-Cities, Tennessee; WYDO-TV Greenville, North Carolina; KBVU-TV/KCVU-TV Eureka/Chico-Redding, California; and WPFO-TV Portland, Maine (collectively, the “Purchased Stations”) and these stations are now owned and operated by the Company.

The services provided to WNUV-TV, WMYA-TV, WTTE-TV, WRGT-TV and WVAH-TV are governed by a master agreement which has a current term that expires on July 1, 2028 and there is one additional five-year renewal term remaining with final expiration on July 1, 2033. We also executed purchase agreements to acquire the license related assets of these stations from Cunningham, which grant us the right to acquire, and grant Cunningham the right to require us to acquire, subject to applicable FCC rules and regulations, 100% of the capital stock or the assets of these individual subsidiaries of Cunningham. Pursuant to the terms of this agreement we are obligated to pay Cunningham an annual fee for the television stations equal to the greater of (i) 3% of each station’s annual net broadcast revenue or (ii) $6 million. The aggregate purchase price of these television stations increases by 6% annually. A portion of the fee is required to be applied to the purchase price to the extent of the 6% increase. The cumulative prepayments made under these purchase agreements were $74 million and $73 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. The remaining aggregate purchase price of these stations, net of prepayments, as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, was approximately $54 million. Additionally, we provide services to WDBB-TV pursuant to an LMA, which expires April 22, 2030, and have a purchase option to acquire for $0.2 million. Under these agreements, we paid Cunningham $3 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

As we consolidate the licensees as VIEs, the amounts we earn or pay under the arrangements are eliminated in consolidation and the gross revenue of the stations are reported in our consolidated statements of operations. Our consolidated revenue includes $4 million and $34 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, related to the Cunningham Stations and prior to March 1, 2026, the Purchased Stations.

We have an agreement with Cunningham to provide master control equipment and provide master control services to a station in Johnstown, PA with which Cunningham has an LMA, that is operating on a month-to-month term until either party provides notice of termination. Under the agreement, Cunningham paid us an initial fee of $1 million and pays us $0.3 million annually for master control services plus the cost to maintain and repair the equipment. In addition, we have an agreement with Cunningham to provide a news share service with the Johnstown, PA station for an annual fee of $0.6 million, which increases by 2% on each anniversary and expires in November 2028.

We have multi-cast agreements with Cunningham Stations in the Anderson, South Carolina; Baltimore, Maryland; Charleston, West Virginia and Dallas, Texas markets and prior to March 1, 2026, also with stations in Eureka/Chico-Redding California; Tri-Cities, Tennessee; Portland, Maine; and Greenville, North Carolina markets. In exchange for carriage of these networks in their markets, we paid $0.3 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 under these agreements.

All the non-voting stock of the Cunningham Stations is owned by trusts for the benefit of the children of our controlling shareholders. We consolidate certain subsidiaries of Cunningham with which we have variable interests through various arrangements related to the Cunningham Stations.

WG Communications Group

The wife of Robert Weisbord, our Chief Operating Officer and President of Local Media, has an ownership interest in WG Communications Group (“WGC”). We received revenue from advertisers represented by WGC of less than $0.1 million and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, and made payments to WGC of less than $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

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Employees

Jason Smith, an employee of the Company, is the son of Frederick Smith, who is a Vice President of the Company and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. Jason Smith received total compensation of $0.8 million and $0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, consisting of salary and bonus, and was granted 144,300 and 159,607 shares of restricted stock, vesting over two years, for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Ethan White, an employee of the Company, is the son-in-law of J. Duncan Smith, who is a Vice President of the Company and Secretary of the Company’s Board of Directors. Ethan White received total compensation of $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary and bonus, and was granted 5,162 and 3,244 shares of restricted stock, vesting over two years, for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Ryan McCoy, an employee of the Company, is the son-in-law of J. Duncan Smith. Ryan McCoy received total compensation of less than $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary.

Amberly Thompson, an employee of the Company, is the daughter of Donald Thompson, who is an Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of the Company. Amberly Thompson received total compensation of less than $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary, and was granted 285 shares of restricted stock, vesting over two years, during the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Frederick Smith is the brother of David Smith, Executive Chairman of the Company and Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors; Robert Smith, a member of the Company’s Board of Directors; and J. Duncan Smith. Frederick Smith received total compensation of $0.2 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary and bonus.

J. Duncan Smith is the brother of David Smith, Frederick Smith, and Robert Smith. J. Duncan Smith received total compensation of $0.2 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary and bonus.

9. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS:

Accounting guidance provides for valuation techniques, such as the market approach (comparable market prices), the income approach (present value of future income or cash flow), and the cost approach (cost to replace the service capacity of an asset or replacement cost). A fair value hierarchy using three broad levels prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The following is a brief description of those three levels:

•Level 1: Observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

•Level 2: Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. These include quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets and quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active.

•Level 3: Unobservable inputs that reflect the reporting entity’s own assumptions.

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The following table sets forth the face value and fair value of our financial assets and liabilities for the periods presented (in millions):


	As of March 31, 2026				As of December 31, 2025
	Face Value		Fair Value		Face Value		Fair Value
Level 1:
Investments in equity securities	N/A		$	34	N/A		$	40
Money market funds	N/A		522		N/A		678

Level 2:
Investments in equity securities (a)	N/A		105		N/A		181

Deferred compensation assets	N/A		50		N/A		52
Deferred compensation liabilities	N/A		45		N/A		48
STG (b):
9.750% Second Lien Senior Secured Notes due 2033	$	432	477		$	432	474
8.125% First-Out First Lien Secured Notes due 2033	1,430		1,454		1,430		1,496
5.500% Senior Notes due 2030	485		420		485		440
4.375% Second-Out First Lien Secured Notes due 2032	238		184		238		189
4.125% Unsecured Notes due 2030	4		3		4		3
Term Loan B-3, due April 1, 2028	3		2		3		2
Term Loan B-6, due December 31, 2029	704		630		706		642
Term Loan B-7, due December 31, 2030	724		554		726		653
A/R Facility	375		375		375		375
Debt of variable interest entities (b)	2		2		6		6


Level 3:
Investments in equity securities	N/A		2		N/A		2

N/A - Not applicable

(a)Consists of warrants to acquire marketable common equity securities. The fair value of the warrants are derived from the quoted trading prices of the underlying common equity securities less the exercise price.

(b)Amounts are carried in our consolidated balance sheets net of debt discount and deferred financing cost, which are excluded in the above table, of $53 million and $55 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

The following table summarizes the changes in financial assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis and categorized as Level 3 under the fair value hierarchy for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 (in millions):


Three Months Ended March 31, 2026
Fair value at December 31, 2025	$	2



Fair value at March 31, 2026	$	2


Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
Fair value at December 31, 2024	$	68


Transfer to Level 2	(58)
Measurement adjustments	(8)

Fair value at March 31, 2025	$	2

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in millions) (Unaudited)


	As of March 31, 2026		As of December 31, 2025
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	392	$	401
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $4 as of both periods	545		612
Income taxes receivable	36		14
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	99		111

Total current assets	1,072		1,138
Property and equipment, net	625		634
Operating lease assets	111		108


Goodwill	2,001		2,004
Indefinite-lived intangible assets	—		122
Customer relationships, net	162		160
Other definite-lived intangible assets, net	367		260
Other assets	258		237
Total assets (a)	$	4,596	$	4,663

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities	$	418	$	437

Current portion of notes payable, finance leases, and commercial bank financing	23		25
Current portion of operating lease liabilities	24		23
Current portion of program contracts payable	57		70
Other current liabilities	69		62

Total current liabilities	591		617
Notes payable, finance leases, and commercial bank financing, less current portion	4,353		4,358
Operating lease liabilities, less current portion	112		112
Program contracts payable, less current portion	12		13
Deferred tax liabilities	254		255
Other long-term liabilities	127		131
Total liabilities (a)	5,449		5,486
Commitments and contingencies (See Note 4)

SBG member's deficit:

Accumulated deficit	(778)		(749)

Total SBG member’s deficit	(778)		(749)
Noncontrolling interests	(75)		(74)
Total deficit	(853)		(823)
Total liabilities and deficit	$	4,596	$	4,663

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

(a) Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC’s (“SBG”) consolidated total assets as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 include total assets of variable interest entities (“VIE”) of $21 million and $30 million, respectively, which can only be used to settle the obligations of the VIEs. SBG’s consolidated total liabilities as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 include total liabilities of VIEs of $5 million and $8 million, respectively, for which the creditors of the VIEs have no recourse to SBG. See Note 6. Variable Interest Entities.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(in millions) (Unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
REVENUE:
Media revenue	$	701	$	694

OPERATING EXPENSES:
Media programming and production expenses	382		390
Media selling, general and administrative expenses	171		170
Amortization of program costs	18		19
Non-media expenses	2		2
Depreciation of property and equipment	26		25
Corporate general and administrative expenses	34		37
Amortization of definite-lived intangible assets	34		31


(Gain) loss on asset dispositions and other, net	(1)		8
Total operating expenses	666		682
Operating income	35		12

OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE):
Interest expense including amortization of debt discount and deferred financing costs	(85)		(144)
Gain on extinguishment of debt	—		2

Other income, net	4		3
Total other expense, net	(81)		(139)
Loss before income taxes	(46)		(127)
INCOME TAX BENEFIT	24		26
NET LOSS	(22)		(101)

Net income attributable to the noncontrolling interests	(2)		(1)
NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO SBG	$	(24)	$	(102)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

(in millions) (Unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
Net loss	$	(22)	$	(101)
Unrealized loss on interest rate swap, net of tax	—		(1)

Comprehensive loss	(22)		(102)

Comprehensive income attributable to the noncontrolling interests	(2)		(1)
Comprehensive loss attributable to SBG	$	(24)	$	(103)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF MEMBER’S DEFICIT AND NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS

(in millions) (Unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31, 2025
	SBG Member
	Accumulated Deficit		Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income		Noncontrolling Interests		Total Deficit

BALANCE, December 31, 2024	$	(560)	$	2	$	(68)	$	(626)
Contributions from member, net	1		—		—		1
Distributions to noncontrolling interests	—		—		(2)		(2)
Other comprehensive loss	—		(1)		—		(1)
Net (loss) income	(102)		—		1		(101)
BALANCE, March 31, 2025	$	(661)	$	1	$	(69)	$	(729)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF MEMBER’S DEFICIT AND NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS

(in millions) (Unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31, 2026
	SBG Member
	Accumulated Deficit		Noncontrolling Interests		Total Deficit

BALANCE, December 31, 2025	$	(749)	$	(74)	$	(823)
Distributions to member, net	(5)		—		(5)
Distributions to noncontrolling interests	—		(3)		(3)



Net (loss) income	(24)		2		(22)
BALANCE, March 31, 2026	$	(778)	$	(75)	$	(853)

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in millions) (Unaudited)


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net loss	$	(22)	$	(101)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash flows from operating activities:

Amortization of definite-lived intangible and other assets	34		31
Depreciation of property and equipment	26		25
Amortization of program costs	18		19
Equity-based compensation	18		22
Deferred tax benefit	—		(99)
(Gain) loss on asset dispositions and other, net	(1)		8




Gain on extinguishment of debt	—		(2)
Debt issuance costs	—		68

Change in assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions:
Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable	69		(20)
Increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets	(18)		(8)

(Decrease) increase in accounts payable and accrued and other current liabilities	(23)		30
Net change in net income taxes payable/receivable	(23)		73
Decrease in program contracts payable	(19)		(19)

Other, net	(1)		7
Net cash flows from operating activities	58		34

CASH FLOWS USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Acquisition of property and equipment	(14)		(15)
Acquisition of businesses, net of cash acquired	(15)		—




Other, net	3		—
Net cash flows used in investing activities	(26)		(15)

CASH FLOWS USED IN FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from notes payable and commercial bank financing	—		1,430
Repayments of notes payable, commercial bank financing, and finance leases	(9)		(1,331)



Debt issuance costs	—		(99)

Distributions to member, net	(29)		(31)
Distributions to noncontrolling interests	(3)		(2)


Net cash flows used in financing activities	(41)		(33)

NET DECREASE IN CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH	(9)		(14)
CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, beginning of period	401		291
CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS, AND RESTRICTED CASH, end of period	$	392	$	277

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited consolidated financial statements.

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1. NATURE OF OPERATIONS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:

Nature of Operations

Sinclair Broadcast Group, LLC (“SBG”), a Maryland limited liability company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Sinclair, Inc. (“Sinclair”), is a diversified media company with national reach and a strong focus on providing high-quality content on SBG’s local television stations and digital platforms. The content, distributed through SBG’s broadcast platform and third-party platforms, consists of programming provided by third-party networks and syndicators, local news and other original programming produced by SBG and SBG owned networks.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2026, SBG had one reportable segment: local media. The local media segment consists primarily of SBG’s 177 broadcast television stations in 79 markets, which SBG owns, provides programming and operating services pursuant to agreements commonly referred to as local marketing agreements (“LMA”), or provides sales services and other non-programming operating services pursuant to other outsourcing agreements (such as joint sales agreements (“JSA”) and shared services agreements (“SSA”)). These stations broadcast 646 channels as of March 31, 2026. For the purpose of this report, these 177 stations and 646 channels are referred to as “SBG” stations and channels.

Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements include SBG’s accounts and those of SBG’s wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries and VIEs for which SBG is the primary beneficiary. Noncontrolling interests represent a minority owner’s proportionate share of the equity in certain of SBG’s consolidated entities. All intercompany transactions and account balances have been eliminated in consolidation.

SBG consolidates VIEs when SBG is the primary beneficiary. SBG is the primary beneficiary of a VIE when SBG has the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the economic performance of the VIE and has the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive returns that would be significant to the VIE. See Note 6. Variable Interest Entities for more information on SBG’s VIEs.

Investments in entities over which SBG has significant influence but not control are accounted for using the equity method of accounting. Income from equity method investments represents SBG’s proportionate share of net income generated by equity method investees.

Interim Financial Statements

SBG’s consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 are unaudited. In the opinion of management, such financial statements have been presented on the same basis as the audited consolidated financial statements and include all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair statement of the consolidated balance sheets, consolidated statements of operations, consolidated statements of comprehensive (loss) income, consolidated statements of member’s deficit and noncontrolling interests, and consolidated statements of cash flows for these periods as adjusted for the adoption of recent accounting pronouncements.

As permitted under the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), SBG’s consolidated financial statements do not include all disclosures normally included with audited consolidated financial statements and, accordingly, should be read together with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto in Sinclair’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 filed with the SEC. SBG’s consolidated statements of operations presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements are not necessarily representative of operations for an entire year.

Use of Estimates

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Changes in Accounting Estimates

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, SBG reassessed the useful lives of certain FCC licenses previously classified as indefinite-lived intangible assets. Based on this reassessment, management determined that these licenses have finite useful lives and, accordingly, SBG reclassified $122 million of FCC licenses from indefinite-lived to definite-lived intangible assets which will be amortized over a 15-year life. We assessed our FCC licenses for impairment prior to completion of this change, concluding there were no impairment indicators.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2024, the FASB issued guidance requiring disclosure of disaggregated information about certain income statement expense line items. The guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. SBG is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.

In December 2025, the FASB issued guidance providing clarifications and organizational improvements to interim financial reporting guidance under Accounting Standard Codification 270. The guidance is effective for interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027. Early adoption is permitted. SBG is currently evaluating the impact of this guidance.

Broadcast Television Programming

SBG has agreements with programming syndicators for the rights to television programming over contract periods, which generally run from one to three years. Contract payments are made in installments over terms that are generally equal to or shorter than the contract period. Pursuant to accounting guidance for the broadcasting industry, an asset and a liability for the rights acquired and obligations incurred under a license agreement are reported on the balance sheet when the cost of each program is known or reasonably determinable, the program material has been accepted by the licensee in accordance with the conditions of the license agreement, and the program is available for its first showing or telecast. The portion of program contracts which becomes payable within one year is reflected as a current liability in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

SBG assesses the program costs on a quarterly basis to ensure the costs are recorded at the lower of unamortized cost or fair value.

Supplemental Information - Statements of Cash Flows

SBG received equity shares in investments valued at $4 million and $8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, in exchange for an obligation to deliver a similar value of advertising spots.

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, SBG completed the acquisition and sale of certain television stations that included non-cash consideration as further described in Acquisitions and Station Disposals below.

Included in distributions to member, net within cash flows used in financing activities in SBG’s consolidated statements of cash flows, were dividends to Sinclair to fund its portion of the dividends to Sinclair shareholders and parent company expenses of $29 million and $30 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

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Revenue Recognition

The following table presents SBG’s revenue disaggregated by type for the local media segment (in millions):


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
Distribution revenue	$	402	$	395
Core advertising revenue	261		271
Political advertising revenue	18		6
Other media	20		22
Total revenue	$	701	$	694

Distribution Revenue. SBG generates distribution revenue through fees received from multi-channel video programming distributors (“MVPD”) and virtual MVPDs (“vMVPD,” and together with MVPDs, “Distributors”) for the right to distribute SBG’s stations and other properties. Distribution arrangements are generally governed by multi-year contracts and the underlying fees are based upon a contractual monthly rate per subscriber. These arrangements represent licenses of intellectual property; revenue is recognized as the signal or network programming is provided to SBG’s customers (as usage occurs) which corresponds with the satisfaction of SBG’s performance obligation. Revenue is calculated based upon the contractual rate multiplied by an estimated number of subscribers. SBG’s customers will remit payments based upon actual subscribers a short time after the conclusion of a month, which generally does not exceed 120 days. Historical adjustments to subscriber estimates have not been material.

Core Advertising Revenue. SBG generates core advertising revenue primarily from the sale of non-political advertising spots/impressions within broadcast television and digital platforms.

Political Advertising Revenue. SBG generates political advertising revenue primarily from the sale of political advertising spots/impressions within broadcast television and digital platforms.

In accordance with ASC 606, SBG does not disclose the value of unsatisfied performance obligations for (i) contracts with an original expected length of one year or less and (ii) distribution arrangements which are accounted for as a sales/usage-based royalty.

Deferred Revenue. SBG records deferred revenue when cash payments are received or due in advance of performance, including amounts which are refundable. SBG classifies deferred revenue as either current in other current liabilities or long-term in other long-term liabilities in SBG’s consolidated balance sheets based on the timing of when SBG expects to satisfy performance obligations. Deferred revenue was $147 million and $145 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively, of which $83 million and $88 million, respectively, was reflected in other long-term liabilities in SBG’s consolidated balance sheets. Deferred revenue recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, included in the deferred revenue balance as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, was $17 million and $19 million, respectively.

For the three months ended March 31, 2026, two customers accounted for 11% and 11%, respectively, of SBG’s total revenue. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, two customers accounted for 11% and 10%, respectively, of SBG’s total revenue. As of March 31, 2026, three customers accounted for 13%, 10%, and 10%, respectively, of SBG’s accounts receivable, net. As of December 31, 2025, two customers accounted for 13% and 12%, respectively, of SBG’s accounts receivable, net. For purposes of this disclosure, a single customer may include multiple entities under common control.

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Acquisitions and Station Disposals

In February 2026, SBG acquired the non-license assets of KMYT and KOKI in Tulsa, OK, along with a purchase option to acquire the four television stations that were previously sold in 2025 (as described below). The total consideration for the transaction was $52 million and included SBG transferring the non-license assets of KLEW in Spokane, WA and KEPR, KIMA, KUNW, KORX, and KVVK in Yakima, WA valued at $12 million, the forgiveness of certain outstanding promissory notes and working capital balances in the amount of $21 million, and cash payments (including cash payments related to certain holdbacks) of $19 million. The acquired assets and liabilities were recorded at fair value as of the closing date of the transaction. Based upon SBG’s preliminary purchase price allocation, SBG recorded $21 million of definite-lived intangible assets, $10 million of property and equipment, $19 million of other assets, and $2 million of goodwill.

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, SBG entered into an asset purchase agreement with a counterparty to sell SBG’s owned stations within Milwaukee, WI (WVTV), Springfield, IL (WICS/WICD), Ottumwa, IA (KTVO), and Quincy, IL (KHQA) for approximately $30 million and accrued the estimated loss we expected to recognize upon closing of the sale of approximately $17 million, which is included within loss on asset dispositions and other, net within SBG’s consolidated statements of operations and SBG’s local media segment within Note 5. Segment Data for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and was recorded to reflect the underlying assets at the lower of carrying value and fair value.

Income Taxes

SBG’s income tax provision for all periods consists of federal and state income taxes. The tax provision for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 is based on the estimated effective tax rate applicable for the full year after taking into account discrete tax items and the effects of the noncontrolling interests. SBG provides a valuation allowance for deferred tax assets if it is determined that it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. In evaluating SBG’s ability to realize net deferred tax assets, SBG considers all available evidence, both positive and negative, including past operating results, tax planning strategies, current and cumulative losses, and forecasts of future taxable income. In considering these sources of taxable income, SBG must make certain judgments that are based on the plans and estimates used to manage SBG’s underlying businesses on a long-term basis. A valuation allowance has been provided for deferred tax assets related to a certain amount of SBG’s available state net operating loss carryforwards based on past operating results, expected timing of the reversals of existing temporary basis differences, alternative tax strategies and projected future taxable income.

SBG’s effective income tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2026 was greater than the statutory rate primarily due to a 2026 release of a valuation allowance on certain state net operating losses resulting from a change in the filing methodology that impacted the realizability of the associated deferred tax assets. SBG’s effective income tax rate for the three months ended March 31, 2025 approximated the statutory rate.

SBG does not believe that the liability for unrecognized tax benefits would be materially impacted, in the next twelve months, as a result of the expected statute of limitations expirations, the application of limits under available state administrative practice exceptions, and the resolution of examination issues and settlements with federal and certain state tax authorities.

Reclassifications

Certain reclassifications have been made to prior years’ consolidated financial statements to conform to the current year’s presentation.

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2. OTHER ASSETS:

Other assets as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025 consisted of the following (in millions):


	As of March 31, 2026		As of December 31, 2025

Investments	$	34	$	30

Income tax receivable	152		150

Other	72		57
Total other assets	$	258	$	237

Investments

SBG’s investments, excluding equity method investments, are accounted for at fair value or, in situations where fair value is not readily determinable, SBG has the option to value investments at cost plus observable changes in value, less impairment. Additionally, certain investments were measured at net asset value (“NAV”).

Investments measured at NAV were $14 million and $13 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

Investments accounted for utilizing the measurement alternative were $20 million and $17 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. There were no adjustments to the carrying amount of investments accounted for utilizing the measurement alternative for either of the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

3. NOTES PAYABLE, FINANCE LEASES, AND COMMERCIAL BANK FINANCING:

Credit Agreement and Notes

Sinclair Television Group, Inc. (“STG”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SBG, is party to two bank credit agreements, the new credit agreement dated February 12, 2025 (the “New Credit Agreement”) and an existing credit agreement that was amended as of February 12, 2025 (the “Amended Credit Agreement).

In April 2026, STG repurchased $93 million aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan B-6 and $72 million aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan B-7, both at discounts of face value.

Finance Leases to Affiliates

The current portion of notes payable, finance leases, and commercial bank financing in SBG’s consolidated balance sheets includes finance leases to affiliates of $3 million as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. Notes payable, finance leases, and commercial bank financing, less current portion, in SBG’s consolidated balance sheets includes finance leases to affiliates of $6 million as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025. See Note 7. Related Person Transactions.

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Debt of Variable Interest Entities and Guarantees of Third-Party Obligations

SBG jointly, severally, unconditionally, and irrevocably guaranteed $2 million of debt of certain third parties as of December 31, 2025, all of which related to consolidated VIEs and was included in our consolidated balance sheets. SBG guarantees certain obligations of the Marquee Sports Network (“Marquee”) subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $331 million for the years 2026 through 2029. As of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, SBG’s estimated obligation was $15 million. Of this estimated obligation, SBG paid $5 million during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and $10 million during the year ended December 31, 2025. See Note 4. Commitments and Contingencies for further discussion.

Accounts Receivable Securitization Facility

Interest Rate Collar

During the three months ended March 31, 2026, SBG entered into two interest collar agreements in order to manage a portion of SBG’s exposure to variable interest rates. The first agreement has a notional amount of $100 million, an effective date of March 3, 2026, a termination date of August 31, 2027, an interest rate ceiling of 3.75%, and an interest rate floor of 2.67%. The second agreement has a notional amount of $100 million, an effective date of March 30, 2026, a termination date of March 30, 2027, an interest rate ceiling of 4.25%, and an interest rate floor of 3.65%. The activity associated with these agreements was immaterial for the three months ended March 31, 2026.

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4. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES:

Litigation, Claims, and Regulatory Matters

SBG is a party to lawsuits, claims, and regulatory matters from time to time in the ordinary course of business. Actions currently pending are in various stages and no material judgments or decisions have been rendered by hearing boards or courts in connection with such actions. Except as noted below, SBG does not believe the outcome of these matters, individually or in the aggregate, will have a material effect on SBG’s financial statements.

FCC Matters

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On September 21, 2022, the FCC released an NAL against the licensees of a number of stations, including 83 SBG stations and several stations with whom SBG has LMAs, JSAs, and/or SSAs (or with whom SBG had LMAs, JSAs, and/or SSAs and has since acquired), for violation of the FCC’s limitations on commercial matter in children’s television programming related to KidsClick network programming distributed by the Company in 2018. The NAL proposed a fine of $2.7 million against SBG, and fines ranging from $20,000 to $26,000 per station for the other licensees, including the LMA, JSA, and/or SSA stations, for a total of $3.4 million. On October 21, 2022, the Company filed a written response seeking reduction of the proposed fine amount. On September 6, 2024, the FCC issued a forfeiture order imposing the fine as proposed in the NAL. The Company and all other affected licensees filed a joint petition for reconsideration of the forfeiture order on October 7, 2024. On June 27, 2025, the FCC adopted an Order and Consent Decree pursuant to which the Company agreed to make a voluntary contribution of $500,000 to resolve, without any admission of liability, the forfeiture order (with respect to SBG stations), a closed captioning investigation of SBG station WUHF in Rochester, NY, and matters relating to certain of SBG’s pending station renewal applications. As part of the consent decree, the Company also agreed to implement a two-year compliance plan relating to the FCC’s limits on commercial matter in children’s programming and closed captioning rules, and the FCC agreed to grant the license renewal applications of all SBG stations involved in the matters resolved by the consent decree. The consent decree states the forfeiture order will be resolved by separate action with respect to the non-SBG licensees named in the forfeiture order, and to SBG’s knowledge all but one of such non-SBG licensees have entered into non-monetary consent decrees with the FCC and agreed to similar compliance plans with respect to the FCC’s limits on commercial matter in children’s programming. The Company made the $500,000 voluntary contribution on July 9, 2025.

Other Matters

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SBG has provided a guarantee that requires SBG to provide funding to Marquee under certain circumstances. On July 19, 2024, Marquee sent SBG a funding notice seeking $29 million under the Marquee guarantee by August 1, 2024 purportedly to make payments under certain agreements to affiliates of the Chicago Cubs, an affiliate of which is also a co-owner of Marquee. Based on the information provided to SBG by Marquee, Marquee has sufficient cash to make such payments without funding under the Marquee guarantee. For this and other reasons, SBG does not believe it is contractually required to provide funding under the Marquee guarantee at this time and has so informed Marquee. On August 2, 2024, Marquee sent SBG another letter claiming that SBG’s failure to timely pay the amounts subject to Marquee’s funding notice constitutes a breach of the Marquee guarantee and requesting payment of such amounts no later than August 17, 2024 at which time Marquee has stated it will pursue any and all available remedies pursuant to the Marquee guarantee. As of January 1, 2025, SBG determined SBG had no further obligations under the guarantee agreement. Marquee disputed this position, and on June 9, 2025, SBG entered into a binding term sheet to settle the matter. As part of the settlement, the parties agreed that the guarantee would be in effect through 2029; however, the maximum obligation under the guarantee agreement was reduced. As a result of the execution of this binding term sheet, SBG has concluded that SBG’s obligation to pay under a portion of the guarantee is probable and the loss related thereto could be reasonably estimated, thus recorded an estimated obligation related to this arrangement during the year ended December 31, 2025. See Note 3. Notes Payable, Finance Leases, and Commercial Bank Financing for further information. Because loss contingencies are inherently unpredictable and unfavorable developments can occur, the assessment requires judgment about future events. Moreover, there is no assurance that contingencies will be satisfied and the ultimate loss may differ materially from the estimated obligation SBG has recorded.

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5. SEGMENT DATA:

SBG measures segment performance based on operating income (loss). For the quarter ended March 31, 2026, SBG had one reportable segment: local media. The local media segment includes SBG’s television stations, original networks, and content and provides these through free over-the-air programming to television viewing audiences for stations in markets located throughout the continental United States, as well as distributes the content of these stations to MVPDs for distribution to their customers in exchange for contractual fees. See Revenue Recognition under Note 1. Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies for further detail. Corporate is not a reportable segment but is included for reconciliation purposes. Corporate costs primarily include SBG’s costs to operate as the parent company of its subsidiaries. All of SBG’s businesses are located within the United States.

Segment financial information is included in the following tables for the periods presented (in millions):


As of March 31, 2026	Local Media		Corporate		Consolidated
Assets	$	4,537	$	59	$	4,596


For the three months ended March 31, 2026	Local Media
Revenue	$	701
Media programming and production expenses	382
Media selling, general and administrative expenses	171
Depreciation of property and equipment and amortization of definite-lived intangibles and other assets	60
Amortization of program costs	18
Corporate general and administrative expenses	34

Gain on asset dispositions and other, net	(1)
Other segment items (a)	2
Operating income	$	35

Interest expense including amortization of debt discount and deferred financing costs	$	85


Other income, net	4
Loss before income taxes	$	(46)


For the three months ended March 31, 2025	Local Media
Revenue	$	694
Media programming and production expenses	390
Media selling, general and administrative expenses	170
Depreciation of property and equipment and amortization of definite-lived intangibles and other assets	56
Amortization of program costs	19
Corporate general and administrative expenses	37

Loss on asset dispositions and other, net	8
Other segment items (a)	2
Operating income	$	12

Interest expense including amortization of debt discount and deferred financing costs	$	144

Gain on extinguishment of debt	2
Other income, net	3
Loss before income taxes	$	(127)

(a)Other segment items relate primarily to non-media expenses.

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6. VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES:

Certain of SBG’s stations provide services to other station owners within the same respective market through agreements, such as LMAs, where SBG provides programming, sales, operational, and administrative services, and JSAs and SSAs, where SBG provides non-programming, sales, operational, and administrative services. In certain cases, SBG has also entered into purchase agreements or options to purchase the license related assets of the licensee. SBG typically owns the majority of the non-license assets of the stations, and in some cases where the licensee acquired the license assets concurrent with SBG’s acquisition of the non-license assets of the station, SBG has provided guarantees to the bank for the licensee’s acquisition financing. The terms of the agreements vary but generally have initial terms of over five years with several optional renewal terms. Based on the terms of the agreements and the significance of SBG’s investment in the stations, SBG is the primary beneficiary when, subject to the ultimate control of the licensees, SBG has the power to direct the activities which significantly impact the economic performance of the VIE through the services SBG provides and SBG absorbs losses and returns that would be considered significant to the VIEs. The fees paid between SBG and the licensees pursuant to these arrangements are eliminated in consolidation.

The carrying amounts and classification of the assets and liabilities of the VIEs mentioned above, which have been included in SBG’s consolidated balance sheets as of the dates presented, were as follows (in millions):


	As of March 31, 2026		As of December 31, 2025
ASSETS
Current assets:


Accounts receivable, net	$	3	$	5
Other current assets	—		2
Total current assets	3		7


Property and equipment, net	6		5

Goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets	1		13
Definite-lived intangible assets, net	11		5

Total assets	$	21	$	30

LIABILITIES
Current liabilities:
Other current liabilities	$	2	$	6


Notes payable, finance leases and commercial bank financing, less current portion	3		4


Other long-term liabilities	3		3
Total liabilities	$	8	$	13

The amounts above represent the combined assets and liabilities of the VIEs described above, for which SBG is the primary beneficiary. Total liabilities associated with certain outsourcing agreements and purchase options with certain VIEs, which are excluded from the above, were $115 million and $116 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively, as these amounts are eliminated in consolidation. The assets of each of these consolidated VIEs can only be used to settle the obligations of the VIE. As of March 31, 2026, all of the liabilities are non-recourse to SBG except for the debt of certain VIEs. See Debt of Variable Interest Entities and Guarantees of Third-Party Obligations under Note 3. Notes Payable, Finance Leases, and Commercial Bank Financing for further discussion. The risk and reward characteristics of the VIEs are similar.

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7. RELATED PERSON TRANSACTIONS:

Transactions With SBG’s Indirect Controlling Shareholders

David, Frederick, J. Duncan, and Robert Smith (collectively, the “Sinclair controlling shareholders”) are brothers and hold substantially all of the Sinclair Class B Common Stock and some of the Sinclair Class A Common Stock and are on the Board of Managers of SBG. SBG engaged in the following transactions with them and/or entities in which they have substantial interests:

Leases. Certain assets used by SBG and SBG’s operating subsidiaries are leased from entities owned by the Sinclair controlling shareholders. Lease payments made to these entities were $2 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025. For further information, see Note 3. Notes Payable, Finance Leases, and Commercial Bank Financing.

Charter Aircraft. SBG leases aircraft owned by certain Sinclair controlling shareholders. For all leases, SBG incurred expenses of $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

The Baltimore Sun. David Smith is the majority shareholder of The Baltimore Sun. STG has entered into agreements with The Baltimore Sun to provide independent contractor services, sales representation, news resource sharing, and content sharing. In relation to these agreements, SBG recorded revenue of $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026.

Atlantic Automotive Corporation. SBG sells advertising time to Atlantic Automotive Corporation ("Atlantic Automotive"), a holding company that owns automobile dealerships and an automobile leasing company. David Smith has a controlling interest in, and is a member of the board of directors of, Atlantic Automotive. SBG received payments for advertising totaling less than $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

Cunningham Broadcasting Corporation

As of March 1, 2026, Cunningham owns a portfolio of television stations, including: WNUV-TV Baltimore, Maryland; WRGT-TV Dayton, Ohio; WVAH-TV Charleston, West Virginia; WMYA-TV Anderson, South Carolina; WTTE-TV Columbus, Ohio; WDBB-TV Birmingham, Alabama; WBSF-TV Flint, Michigan; KRNV-DT/KENV-DT Reno, Nevada/Salt Lake City, Utah; and KTXD-TV in Dallas, Texas (collectively, the “Cunningham Stations”). Certain of SBG’s stations provide services to certain Cunningham Stations pursuant to LMAs or JSAs and SSAs. See Note 6. Variable Interest Entities, for further discussion of the scope of services provided under these types of arrangements. The agreements with KRNV-DT/KENV-DT, WBSF-TV and WDBB-TV expire between November 2029 and April 2030 and certain stations have renewal provisions for successive eight-year periods. On March 1, 2026, SBG exercised purchase options for WGTU-TV/WGTQ-TV Traverse City/Cadillac, Michigan; WEMT-TV Tri-Cities, Tennessee; WYDO-TV Greenville, North Carolina; KBVU-TV/KCVU-TV Eureka/Chico-Redding, California; and WPFO-TV Portland, Maine (collectively, the “Purchased Stations”) and these stations are now owned and operated by SBG.

The services provided to WNUV-TV, WMYA-TV, WTTE-TV, WRGT-TV and WVAH-TV are governed by a master agreement which has a current term that expires on July 1, 2028 and there is one additional five-year renewal term remaining with final expiration on July 1, 2033. SBG also executed purchase agreements to acquire the license related assets of these stations from Cunningham, which grant SBG the right to acquire, and grant Cunningham the right to require SBG to acquire, subject to applicable FCC rules and regulations, 100% of the capital stock or the assets of these individual subsidiaries of Cunningham. Pursuant to the terms of this agreement SBG is obligated to pay Cunningham an annual fee for the television stations equal to the greater of (i) 3% of each station’s annual net broadcast revenue or (ii) $6 million. The aggregate purchase price of these television stations increases by 6% annually. A portion of the fee is required to be applied to the purchase price to the extent of the 6% increase. The cumulative prepayments made under these purchase agreements were $74 million and $73 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively. The remaining aggregate purchase price of these stations, net of prepayments, as of both March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, was approximately $54 million. Additionally, SBG provides services to WDBB-TV pursuant to an LMA, which expires April 22, 2030, and has a purchase option to acquire for $0.2 million. Under these agreements, SBG paid Cunningham $3 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

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As SBG consolidates the licensees as VIEs, the amounts SBG earns or pays under the arrangements are eliminated in consolidation and the gross revenue of the stations are reported in SBG’s consolidated statements of operations. SBG’s consolidated revenue includes $4 million and $34 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, related to the Cunningham Stations, and, prior to March 1, 2026, the Purchased Stations.

SBG has an agreement with Cunningham to provide master control equipment and provide master control services to a station in Johnstown, PA with which Cunningham has an LMA, that is operating on a month-to-month term until either party provides notice of termination. Under the agreement, Cunningham paid SBG an initial fee of $1 million and pays SBG $0.3 million annually for master control services plus the cost to maintain and repair the equipment. In addition, SBG has an agreement with Cunningham to provide a news share service with the Johnstown, PA station for an annual fee of $0.6 million, which increases by 2% on each anniversary and expires in November 2028.

SBG has multi-cast agreements with Cunningham Stations in the Anderson, South Carolina; Baltimore, Maryland; Charleston, West Virginia; and Dallas, Texas markets and, prior to March 1, 2026, with stations in the Eureka/Chico-Redding, California; Tri-Cities, Tennessee; Portland, Maine; and Greenville, North Carolina markets. In exchange for carriage of these networks in their markets, SBG paid $0.3 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 under these agreements.

All of the non-voting stock of the Cunningham Stations is owned by trusts for the benefit of the children of the Sinclair controlling shareholders. SBG consolidates certain subsidiaries of Cunningham with which SBG has variable interests through various arrangements related to the Cunningham Stations.

WG Communications Group

The wife of Robert Weisbord, SBG’s Chief Operating Officer and President of Local Media, has an ownership interest in WG Communications Group (“WGC”). SBG received revenue from advertisers represented by WGC of less than $0.1 million and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, and made payments to WGC of less than $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Sinclair, Inc.

Sinclair is the sole member of SBG.

SBG recorded revenue of $3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and $3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 related to sales services provided by SBG to Sinclair, and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries.

SBG recorded expenses of $8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and $4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 related to digital advertising services provided by Sinclair, and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, to SBG.

SBG made net cash distributions of $45 million to Sinclair, and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, for the three months ended March 31, 2026. SBG made net cash distributions of $46 million to Sinclair, and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

As of March 31, 2026 SBG had a payable to Sinclair, and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, of $1 million, included within other current liabilities in SBG’s consolidated balance sheets. As of December 31, 2025, SBG had a receivable from Sinclair, and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries, of $1 million, included within prepaid expenses and other current assets in SBG’s consolidated balance sheets.

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Employees

Jason Smith, an employee of SBG, is the son of Frederick Smith, who is a Vice President of SBG and a member of SBG’s Board of Managers. Jason Smith received total compensation of $0.8 million and $0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, consisting of salary and bonus, and was granted 144,300 and 159,607 shares of restricted stock, vesting over two years, for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Ethan White, an employee of SBG, is the son-in-law of J. Duncan Smith, who is a Vice President of SBG and a member of SBG’s Board of Managers. Ethan White received total compensation of $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary and bonus, and was granted 5,162 and 3,244 shares of restricted stock, vesting over two years, for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Ryan McCoy, an employee of SBG, is the son-in-law of J. Duncan Smith. Ryan McCoy received total compensation of less than $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary.

Amberly Thompson, an employee of SBG, is the daughter of Donald Thompson, who is an Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of SBG. Amberly Thompson received total compensation of less than $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary, and was granted 285 shares of restricted stock, vesting over two years, for the three months ended March 31, 2025.

Frederick Smith is the brother of David Smith, Executive Chairman of SBG and a member of SBG’s Board of Managers; Robert Smith, a member of SBG’s Board of Managers; and J. Duncan Smith. Frederick Smith received total compensation of $0.2 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, consisting of salary and bonus.

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8. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS:

•Level 1: Observable inputs such as quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

•Level 3: Unobservable inputs that reflect the reporting entity’s own assumptions.

The following table sets forth the face value and fair value of SBG’s financial assets and liabilities for the periods presented (in millions):


	As of March 31, 2026				As of December 31, 2025
	Face Value		Fair Value		Face Value		Fair Value
Level 1:
Money market funds	N/A		$	252	N/A		$	352

Level 2:

STG (a):
9.750% Second Lien Senior Secured Notes due 2033	$	432	477		$	432	474
8.125% First-Out First Lien Secured Notes due 2033	1,430		1,454		1,430		1,496
5.500% Senior Notes due 2030	485		420		485		440
4.375% Second-Out First Lien Secured Notes due 2032	238		184		238		189
4.125% Unsecured Notes due 2030	4		3		4		3
Term Loan B-3, due April 1, 2028	3		2		3		2
Term Loan B-6, due December 31, 2029	704		630		706		642
Term Loan B-7, due December 31, 2030	724		554		726		653
A/R Facility	375		375		375		375
Debt of variable interest entities (a)	2		2		6		6

N/A - Not applicable

(a)Amounts are carried in SBG’s consolidated balance sheets net of debt discount and deferred financing cost, which are excluded in the above table, of $53 million and $55 million as of March 31, 2026 and December 31, 2025, respectively.

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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis provides qualitative and quantitative information about Sinclair’s and SBG’s financial performance and condition and should be read in conjunction with Sinclair’s and SBG’s consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes to those statements. This discussion consists of the following sections:

Summary of Significant Events — financial events during the three months ended March 31, 2026 and through the date this Report on Form 10-Q is filed.

Results of Operations — an analysis of Sinclair’s and SBG’s revenue and expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.

Liquidity and Capital Resources — a discussion of Sinclair’s and SBG’s primary sources of liquidity and an analysis of Sinclair’s and SBG’s cash flows from or used in operating activities, investing activities, and financing activities during the three months ended March 31, 2026.

SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

Content and Distribution

•In January 2026, Sinclair’s AMP Media launched Cousins, a weekly podcast series hosted by NBA icons Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady.

Corporate Social Responsibility Practices

•In March 2026, Sinclair announced a partnership with Disabled American Veterans (“DAV”) to launch Sinclair Cares: DAV Community Impact Day, a nationwide volunteer campaign dedicated to supporting America’s veterans and their families.

•To date in 2026, our newsrooms have won a total of 24 journalism awards.

Transactions

•In February 2026, Sinclair acquired KMTR, KMCB, and KTCW in Eugene, OR from Roberts Media. Sinclair previously provided services to the stations under JSAs and SSAs.

•In February 2026, Sinclair acquired the non-license assets of KMYT and KOKI in Tulsa, OK.

•In February 2026, Sinclair disposed of the non-license assets of KLEW in Spokane, WA and KEPR, KIMA, KUNW, KORX, and KVVK in Yakima, WA.

•In March 2026, Sinclair acquired WHAM in Rochester, NY, WGTU/WGTQ in Traverse City, MI, WEYI in Flint, MI, KCVU/KBVU in Eureka/Chico-Redding, CA, WEMT in Tri-Cities, TN, WYDO in Greenville, NC and WPFO Portland, Maine from various partners. Sinclair previously provided services to the stations under JSAs and SSAs.

Financing, Capital Allocation, and Shareholder Returns

•In February 2026, Sinclair declared a quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share. In April 2026, Sinclair declared a quarterly dividend of $0.25 per share.

•In April 2026, STG repurchased $93 million aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan B-6 and $72 million aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan B-7, both at discounts of face value.

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SINCLAIR, INC. RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Any references to the second, third, or fourth quarters are to the three months ended June 30, September 30, or December 31, respectively, for the year being discussed. As of March 31, 2026, we had two reportable segments for accounting purposes, local media and tennis.

Seasonality / Cyclicality

The operating results of our local media segment are usually subject to cyclical fluctuations from political advertising. In even numbered years, political spending is usually significantly higher than in odd numbered years due to advertising expenditures preceding local and national elections. Additionally, every four years, political spending is usually elevated further due to advertising expenditures preceding the presidential election. Also, the second and fourth quarter operating results are usually higher than the first and third quarters’ operating results because advertising expenditures are increased in anticipation of certain seasonal and holiday spending by consumers.

The operating results of our tennis segment are usually subject to cyclical fluctuations due to the number and significance of tournaments that take place in the respective quarters during the year. The first and fourth quarter operating results are usually higher than the second and third quarters’ because of the number and significance of tournaments that are played during those periods.

Operating Data

The following table sets forth our consolidated operating data for the periods presented (in millions):


	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026		2025
Media revenue	$	801	$	770
Non-media revenue	6		6
Total revenue	807		776
Media programming and production expenses	412		418
Media selling, general and administrative expenses	214		192
Depreciation and amortization expenses	65		62
Amortization of program costs	18		19
Non-media expenses	15		11
Corporate general and administrative expenses	49		52


Loss on asset dispositions and other, net	7		8
Operating income	$	27	$	14
Net income (loss) attributable to Sinclair	$	20	$	(156)

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Local Media Segment

The following table sets forth our revenue and expenses for our local media segment for the periods presented (in millions):


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Percent Change Increase / (Decrease)
	2026		2025
Revenue:
Distribution revenue	$	402	$	395	2%
Core advertising revenue	261		271		(4)%
Political advertising revenue	18		6		n/m
Other media revenue	20		22		(9)%
Media revenue (a)	$	701	$	694	1%

Operating Expenses:
Media programming and production expenses	$	382	$	390	(2)%
Media selling, general and administrative expenses (b)	171		170		1%
Depreciation and amortization expenses	60		56		7%
Amortization of program costs	18		19		(5)%
Corporate general and administrative expenses	34		37		(8)%
Non-media expenses	2		2		—%
(Gain) loss on asset dispositions and other, net	(1)		8		n/m
Operating income	$	35	$	12	n/m
Interest expense including amortization of debt discount and deferred financing costs	$	85	$	144	(41)%
Gain on extinguishment of debt	$	—	$	2	n/m
Other income, net	$	4	$	3	33%

n/m - not meaningful

(a)Includes $3 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 of intercompany revenue related to certain services provided to the tennis segment, which is eliminated in consolidation.

(b)Includes $8 million and $4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively, of intercompany expense related to certain services provided by other, which is eliminated in consolidation.

Revenue

Distribution revenue. Distribution revenue, which represents fees earned from Distributors for our broadcast signals, increased $7 million or 2% for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025. Contractual rate increases favorably impacted period-over-period distribution revenue by single-digit percentages for the three months ended March 31, 2026, partially offset by subscriber decreases by low single-digit percentages.

Core advertising revenue. Core advertising revenue decreased $10 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, with no particular product/services category dominating the variance.

Political advertising revenue. Political advertising revenue increased $12 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to 2026 being a midterm election year and therefore having a higher number of political races and correspondingly more political advertising spending compared to 2025, which was an off-year election cycle.

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Other media revenue. Other media revenue decreased $2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to a decrease related to certain services provided under trade and barter agreements.

The following table sets forth our primary types of programming and their approximate percentages of advertising revenue for the periods presented:


	Percent of Advertising Revenue for the
	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2026	2025
Syndicated/Other programming	38%	39%
Local news	28%	27%
Sports programming (a)	16%	16%
Network programming (a)	14%	15%

Paid programming	4%	3%

(a)Sports programming includes both local and network sports programming. Network programming is exclusive of any network sports programming.

The following table sets forth our affiliate percentages of advertising revenue for the periods presented:


		Percent of Advertising Revenue for the
		Three Months Ended March 31,
	# of Channels	2026	2025
ABC	41	27%	27%
FOX	61	21%	26%
CBS	32	21%	19%
NBC	25	17%	12%
CW	46	4%	5%
MNT	43	3%	3%
Other	398	7%	8%
Total	646

Expenses

Media programming and production expenses. Media programming and production expenses decreased $8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to a decrease related to costs associated with our network affiliation agreements and other programming contracts and a decrease in consulting expenses.

Media selling, general and administrative expenses. Media selling, general and administrative expenses increased $1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to a $2 million increase in employee compensation cost and in costs relating to our digital business, respectively, partially offset by a $2 million decrease in information technology costs.

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Corporate general and administrative expenses. See explanation under Corporate and Unallocated Expenses.

(Gain) loss on asset dispositions and other, net. During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we recognized a loss associated with the sale of certain local media assets of approximately $17 million (see Acquisitions and Station Disposals under Note 1. Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies within Sinclair’s Consolidated Financial Statements), which was offset by $9 million of proceeds related to our cyber and directors and officers insurance policies.

Depreciation and amortization expenses. Depreciation of property and equipment and amortization of definite-lived intangibles and other assets increased $4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to an increase in intangible assets related to our acquisitions during the first quarter of 2026 and the third quarter of 2025, as well as amortization expense associated with our FCC licenses which began on January 1, 2026. See Acquisitions and Station Disposals and Changes in Accounting Estimates under Note 1. Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies within Sinclair’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

Interest expense including amortization of debt discount and deferred financing costs. Interest expense decreased $59 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to $68 million of one-time financing costs related to the financing transactions that occurred in the first quarter of 2025. See Credit Agreement and Notes under Note 3. Notes Payable, Finance Leases, and Commercial Bank Financing within Sinclair’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

Gain on extinguishment of debt. For the three months ended March 31, 2025, we recognized a gain on extinguishment of the 4.125% Senior Secured Notes due 2030 and 5.125% Senior Notes due 2027 of $5 million and $3 million, respectively, and a loss on extinguishment of the Term Loan B-2 of $6 million. See Credit Agreement and Notes under Note 3. Notes Payable, Finance Leases, and Commercial Bank Financing within Sinclair’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

Tennis Segment

The following table sets forth our revenue and expenses for our tennis segment for the periods presented (in millions):


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Percent Change Increase / (Decrease)
	2026		2025
Revenue:
Distribution revenue	$	56	$	56	—%
Core advertising revenue	13		11		18%
Other media revenue	1		1		—%
Media revenue	$	70	$	68	3%

Operating Expenses:
Media programming and production expenses	$	30	$	27	11%
Media selling, general and administrative expenses (a)	19		18		6%
Depreciation and amortization expenses	5		5		—%

Corporate general and administrative expenses	1		—		n/m

Operating income	$	15	$	18	(17)%

n/m - not meaningful

(a)Includes $3 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 of intercompany expense related to certain services provided by the local media segment, which is eliminated in consolidation.

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Revenue

Distribution revenue. Distribution revenue, which represents fees earned from Distributors for the right to distribute Tennis Channel, remained flat for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025.

Core advertising revenue. Core advertising revenue is primarily generated from sales of commercial time within Tennis Channel programming. Core advertising revenue increased $2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to stronger linear sales.

Expenses

Media programming and production expenses. Media programming and production expenses increased $3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to an increase in tournament production costs.

Corporate general and administrative expenses. See explanation under Corporate and Unallocated Expenses.

Other

The following table sets forth our revenue and expenses for our non-broadcast digital and internet solutions, technical services, and non-media investments (collectively, other) for the periods presented (in millions):


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Percent Change Increase / (Decrease)
	2026		2025
Revenue:



Media revenue (a)	$	40	$	15	n/m
Non-media revenue	$	6	$	6	—%

Operating Expenses:
Media expenses	$	34	$	12	n/m
Non-media expenses	$	13	$	9	44%


Loss on asset dispositions and other, net	$	8	$	—	n/m
Operating loss	$	(10)	$	(1)	n/m
Loss from equity method investments	$	(1)	$	(5)	(80)%
Other expense, net	$	(81)	$	(69)	17%

n/m - not meaningful

(a)Media revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025 includes $8 million and $4 million, respectively, of intercompany revenue related to certain services and sales provided to the local media segment, which is eliminated in consolidation.

Revenue. Media revenue increased $25 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025, primarily due to an increase in advertising revenue related to the acquisition of Digital Remedy which was not reflected for the full period within the prior year, as discussed in Acquisitions and Station Disposals under Note 1. Nature of Operations and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies within Sinclair’s Consolidated Financial Statements. Non-media revenue remained flat for the three months ended March 31, 2026, when compared to the same period in 2025.

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