As Thanksgiving 2025 approached, it became known that Todd Parkin, a former head of sales for the Bally Sports regional sports network, had agreed to acquire four television stations from an affiliated licensee of Standard Media. This followed deals involving stations licensed to Sinclair Inc. and David Cerullo-led Imagicomm Communications.
Some wondered if he was simply parking stations for Sinclair ahead of a FCC vote to eliminate the 39% national TV ownership reach cap. Now that this has transpired, it turns out many of the stations transferred to Parkin’s Rincon Broadcasting Group are being spun. In Tulsa, one property is going to Sinclair — because it now can do so.
