Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., Tribune Media Co., and other independent TV station owners are under scrutiny from the Department of Justice to determine if they broke antitrust laws and drove up local television advertising prices, a new report says.
The investigation is looking at whether the television station owners worked together when their ad sales team discussed their performance among each other. This could have resulted in increased television commercial prices, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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