EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER | KUTV, KMYU, KJZZ ISSUE 9 Employee Newsletter

KENT’S CORNER May 2018 April and May were exciting KMYU is in full swing with Real months for our Salt Lake City Salt Lake providing great soccer Stations. Everyone put an coverage for our viewers. amazing amount of effort into We have lots of equipment May sweeps and ended up with an upgrades coming for the month outstanding ratings performance, of June that will keep our winning every single newscast engineering team busy once NOTES FROM HR with households. We are hoping again, and will keep our station on Referring a friend is easy! If your to see strong demo conversions in the cutting edge of technology. referral is hired and successfully completes their introductory period, the next week or so. We continue to work hard as a you will receive a referral bonus! I was especially excited about news and sales team to be the Go to the referral site at our Medical Debt reduction story “top provider of local content on sinclair.employeereferrals.com to that allowed us to pay off medical all screens, and being the most refer a friend. debt for over $1.4 million in trusted source of marketing NEW EMPLOYEES medical debt for 555 Utahans. services to our clients” Say hi to the new Since the story aired viewers employees in May: donated another $16,000 to the Kristi Behrens ...... News Assistant cause. That brings our total paid Thanks to all of you for your off/to be paid off at over efforts, and we will see you all at $3,000,000. Lagoon on Saturday, 6/23 for the summer kickoff party! EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER | KUTV, KMYU, KJZZ | ISSUE 9 2

DEPARTMENT UPDATES SALES We are pleased to announce aware of a strong candidate, Lights and Friday Night Rivals” on that we have hired a new please have them contact Doug both KJZZ and KMYU. This year employee, Steve McFarland, to Beck. we hope to again be recognized head up our “Drive Auto” On May 9th we kicked off our as the “Station of the Year” for program here in Utah. Steve NFL sales effort for 2018 and SBG high school football. recently worked for Driving Sales, 2019. This is a big year for CBS as KUTV is excited to head back L.L.C. one of the largest online we have the Super Bowl on 2/3/19. for another great summer of event producers in the Sales are off to a strong start for Road Trippin’! Caitlin Hansen will automotive industry. Steve will the upcoming season. KMYU be traveling for one week each begin work on June 4th. continues an outstanding effort month throughout Utah and the Additionally, we are looking for for Real Salt Lake, the Utah surrounding states. This is one of one National Sales Assistant for Royals and the Monarchs. Keith our biggest promotions each all three stations and a Marketing Pasker and crew are getting us all year, and we have billed $90,000 Consultant for KJZZ. If you are ramped up for “Thursday Night net for this year.

NEWS The May ratings book was good for KUTV. In an era At 10pm the margin is razor thin. One month after where viewers are leaving TV News, we continue to beating KSL for the first time in two years, we trailed grow and win in a very competitive market. In the by hundredths of a point. The 7pm and 9pm shows household race, we won every show. In fact, we grew continue to progress, each finishing flat. in every show year over year, except for 6pm and The weekend team is not to be overlooked. We 10pm where we were flat. finished a close second at 7am and won the 5pm and In the demos, we were #2 in the mornings while 10pm. growing year over year in nearly every daypart. The This success is all due to the extraordinary team in noon is as dominant as ever and we won the 5pm and the newsroom… and it was a team effort that carried finished second at 6pm. the May book to success.

CREDIT HUB The Credit hub had a fun time celebrating Cinco de Mayo with the SASO hub. We had a great taco bar that all contributed to. We also had a surprise celebration of the Royal wedding being treated by Anna & Leslie in traffic and our own Sue Wood. We are also sad to have lost Emily Luskin this month. She was a great asset to Sinclair analyst team and will be greatly missed.

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DEPARTMENT UPDATES

ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS Commissioning and Training was completed on the new system will expand our reach in to Summit new PCR switcher as scheduled. The new PCR County and Washington County. switcher made its debut on May 27th at 5pm. Thanks FCC SPECTRUM REPACK UPDATE to all that participated in the process of making a As the planning stage which has occurred over the successful launch of the new switcher. Now for the last several months comes to a close, the next step… implementation phase now begins. Low power Preparations are being made to install new operations on the auxiliary antenna will begin on consoles in PCR. On Jun 10th control room operations June 4th and continue through the completion of the will be moved into the feed room area for one week construction of the new antenna on September 8th. while the old consoles are removed and the new As a reminder, all wireless mics operating above consoles are installed. Operations from PCR should channel 36 will need to cease operation on or before resume on June 17th. November 30, 2018. It would be advisable to move The new scanner system for the assignment desk is off these channels before operations from the new scheduled to be installed the week of June 4th. The antenna begin on September 8th. EMPLOYEES OF THE MONTH

CHANTRYCE DIEHL, SALES NICHOLE WHITAKER, SALES Chantryce goes above and beyond daily. She is thorough, While Master has been shorthanded, Nichole has punctual, dependable, cooperative, and thoughtful. She always had a lot of extra work on her shoulders which double checks her work to ensure that forms, orders, and she has handled exceptionally. Her leadership of projects are completed on time and without error. She is willing the department is a great advantage. to help anyone that needs it and is pleasant to work with.

JASON SMITH, NEWS COURTNEY NATTRESS, CREDIT Jason put in extra time working on multiple sweeps stories. He Courtney has the most accounts to collect on in has taken ownership and polished them to perfection. He has all of Sinclair Credit. She comes in every day filled in shifts while being down an editor, and came in for the knowing this with a big smile on her face and the morning show while covering his usual shift. attitude to make it work. All her markets report that she is a joy to work with.

Thank you for your employee of the month nominations! Please continue to send in your nominations at: kutv2productions.com/eotm.

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SERVICE PROJECT - PANTRY PACKS First and foremost, THANK YOU for the tremendous response in food and money donations (raised $575) for the KUTV Pantry Packs. You are immeasurably kind and will make such a difference in the lives of children in Davis and Weber counties this Summer. We will have two pantry pack assembly days: June 6th and June 7th. We’ll be assembling in the office space between the small news conference room and the kitchen, on the first floor. If you can help, that would be amazing! If you can help assemble, please reach out to Suzanne Viehweg at [email protected] or x1105 to sign up for a time. We’re assembling during the following times: • Wednesday June 6th 9:30am to 10:30am • Wednesday June 6th 10:30am to 11:30am • Thursday June 7th 1:30pm to 2:30pm • Thursday June 7th 2:30pm to 3:30pm A THANK YOU NOTE I would like to say thank you to my 2News family for all the love and support after our son Jonathan died. Your concern and compassion has made my wife and I stronger. I also want to thank all of you for your generous gifts through GoFundMe. Your kindness and generosity truly helped us through this difficult time. A heartfelt thanks to all of you, my 2News family- Al and Jolynn Taylor. Your 2018 Continuous Improvement Committee: Suzanne Viehweg | Don Kauffman | Dannielle Malmstrom | Alisha Grant | Matthew Blank | Maren Jensen | Mary Nickles Tom Bottom | Sarah Penrod | Sandy Dringman | Richard Archuleta | Rachael Kimber | Patrick Fitzgibbon | Mike Stringham