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WJLA / Sinclair
U.S. center-right (owner-driven; local news is more mixed)
WJLA is the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C. Its owner, Sinclair, is a large publicly traded station group controlled by the Smith family. Sinclair has a long record of conservative-leaning corporate programming and has been seen as friendly to Republican administrations. Its current posture toward the second Trump administration is broadly supportive at the corporate level, while WJLA's day-to-day local reporting is mostly conventional.
Owned byWJLA-TV is owned by Sinclair, Inc. (formerly Sinclair Broadcast Group), a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: SBGI). The Smith family, including executive chairman David Smith, holds control through super-voting shares. Chris Ripley is CEO.
LeaningU.S. center-right (owner-driven; local news is more mixed)
On the administrationbroadly supportive
3average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun