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WCTI
U.S. right-center (local broadcast, Sinclair-owned)
WCTI (channel 12) is a local television station in New Bern, North Carolina, serving as the ABC affiliate for Eastern North Carolina. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, a large broadcasting company with a documented history of conservative-leaning editorial mandates and favorable coverage of the Trump administration. While day-to-day local news tends toward standard local fare, the station is subject to Sinclair's network-level content directives.
Owned bySinclair Broadcast Group (controlled by the Smith family, successors to founder Julian Sinclair Smith)
LeaningU.S. right-center (local broadcast, Sinclair-owned)
On the administrationbroadly supportive
2average bias score across 3 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun