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Hulu + Live TV Drops Sinclair Owned ABC Affiliates; Disney Not Yet Supplying National Feed Replacement

Hulu + Live TV Drops Sinclair Owned ABC Affiliates; Disney Not Yet Supplying National Feed Replacement

Matt Tamanini
Matt Tamanini is the News Editor at The Streamable, where he oversees daily news coverage and editorial strategy, with a particular focus on breaking stories, streaming comparisons, and major industry events. A well-rounded journalist with a diverse background, Matt joined The Streamable in 2022 after holding key editorial roles at several high-profile outlets. He has an extensive career in sports and entertainment journalism, having served as a senior editor for BroadwayWorld, the world’s largest theater website, and as managing editor for Land-Grant Holy Land, which covers Ohio State sports.
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With a background in sports and entertainment reporting, he’s covered everything from Broadway to college football. He cut the cord in 2014 and has a sharp eye for streaming trends and a soft spot for Hallmark movies.
With a background in sports and entertainment reporting, he’s covered everything from Broadway to college football. He cut the cord in 2014 and has a sharp eye for streaming trends and a soft spot for Hallmark movies.

Cord-cutters who have relied on live TV streaming services to watch their local channels have had a rough go of it lately. First, a dispute between CBS and many of its local affiliates led to the channels being dropped from fuboTV, and now, Hulu + Live TV customers are experiencing the same fate with ABC affiliates owned by Sinclair Broadcasting Group (SBG).

On Wednesday, the Disney-owned live streamer sent out an email to affected customers informing them that Hulu no longer had the broadcast rights for their local ABC channel; the move was confirmed by the official Hulu Support Twitter account which included the added information that only SBG-owned affiliates were impacted.

While it has not officially been said, this is almost certainly due to a carriage dispute. As the contract between the station group and Disney expired, the two sides were unable to come to financial terms to keep the affiliates on the air. In the case of CBS and Fubo, Paramount Global is supplying impacted subscribers with a national feed so that they do not miss out on any of the content owned and distributed by the network itself. As of publishing time, Disney — which owns both Hulu and ABC — has not added a national ABC feed to its streaming channel lineup.

Neither Hulu nor Sinclair has confirmed which affiliates have gone dark on the service, but SBG owns 34 channels that are either exclusively or partially run as affiliates of ABC.

Sinclair Broadcasting Group-Owned ABC Affiliates

City of license / Market Station
Abilene, TX KTXS-TV
Amarillo, TX–Clovis, NM KVII-TV
Amarillo, TX–Clovis, NM KVIH-TV
Asheville, NC–Greenville–Spartanburg, SC WLOS
Birmingham–Tuscaloosa–Anniston, AL WBMA-LD
Champaign–Urbana–Decatur–Springfield, IL WICS
Champaign–Urbana–Decatur–Springfield, IL WICD
Charleston–Huntington, WV WCHS-TV
Chattanooga, TN WTVC
Chico–Redding, CA KRCR-TV
Columbus–Chillicothe, OH WSYX
Dayton, OH WKEF
Eureka–Arcata, CA KAEF-TV
Florence–Myrtle Beach, SC WPDE-TV
Greenville–New Bern–Morehead City, NC WCTI-TV
Hayes Center, NE KWNB-TV
Johnstown–Altoona, PA WATM-TV
Kirksville, MO–Ottumwa, IA KTVO
Lincoln–Hastings–Kearney, NE KHGI-TV
Little Rock, AR KATV
Lynchburg–Roanoke, VA WSET-TV
McCook, NE KWNB-LD
Mobile, AL–Pensacola, FL WEAR-TV
North Platte, NE KHGI-CD
Portland, OR KATU
Rochester, NY WHAM-TV
San Angelo, TX KTXE-LD
Seattle–Tacoma, WA KOMO-TV
St. Louis, MO KDNL-TV
Traverse City–Cadillac–Cheboygan– Sault Ste. Marie, MI WGTU
Traverse City–Cadillac–Cheboygan– Sault Ste. Marie, MI WGTQ
Tulsa, OK KTUL
Washington, DC WJLA-TV
Winston-Salem–Greensboro–High Point, NC WXLV-TV

This is not the only difficulty that Sinclair is experiencing currently. Its sports-focused subsidiary Diamond Sports Group, which operates the company’s collection of regional sports networks (RSNs), has missed recent payments to creditors and teams for which it owns rights and is currently working its way toward declaring bankruptcy.

Carriage dispute-caused service interruptions are not unusual and not a problem exclusive to streaming as they have been happening with cable and satellite distributors for decades. Usually, the increased pressure brought on by the disruption forces both sides to come to the table and hammer out a solution. However, with the financial difficulties that Sinclair is currently facing on multiple fronts, and the fact that Disney owns both the live-streaming service and the national network impacted, there are additional complicating factors that could prolong this situation for customers in the impacted markets.

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Matt Tamanini
Matt Tamanini is the News Editor at The Streamable, where he oversees daily news coverage and editorial strategy, with a particular focus on breaking stories, streaming comparisons, and major industry events. A well-rounded journalist with a diverse background, Matt joined The Streamable in 2022 after holding key editorial roles at several high-profile outlets. He has an extensive career in sports and entertainment journalism, having served as a senior editor for BroadwayWorld, the world’s largest theater website, and as managing editor for Land-Grant Holy Land, which covers Ohio State sports.
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