EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER | KUTV, KMYU, KJZZ ISSUE 11 Employee Newsletter

KENT’S CORNER Now that we are in the dog Keep in mind if you have any days of summer, let’s get questions regarding your benefits together for a station meeting. It at Sinclair, you can contact will be in the Newsroom on Jessica Peterson at x1149 for July 2018 Tuesday, July 31st at 1:15pm. We answers to your questions about hope your schedule allows you to healthcare, time off, etc. Also, attend. Jessica can help make sure you fill For part of the meeting we will out and submit your weekly be acknowledging our station timecard correctly.

employees who have worked at We will have some new faces NOTES FROM HR KUTV / KMYU / KJZZ for 20+ at the station in the coming Referring a friend is easy! If your years. This is a tremendous weeks as we prepare for the 4pm referral is hired and successfully accomplishment and we are and 4:30pm news to air. The start completes their introductory period, proud of the loyal, hardworking date of these newscasts is you will receive a referral bonus! people who dedicated their Monday, 9/3. Let’s make our new Go to the referral site at sinclair.employeereferrals.com to careers to our station. Sinclair employees feel welcome. refer a friend. created a nice gift for each Thanks for your hard work. NEW EMPLOYEES recipient and they will get this gift Keep it up! Say hi to the new in the near future. employees in July: Hunter Geisel ...... Web Producer DEPARTMENT UPDATES Cat Nordhagen ...... Web Producer NEWS Ian Philbrick ...... Asst. News Director July was good for the news department as we began some transitions Jim Spiewak ...... Reporter/Anchor to move forward. In the ratings race we continued to show progress. While we were #2 in the mornings, there was growth in key areas. EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER | KUTV, KMYU, KJZZ | ISSUE 11 2

NEWS (CONTINUED) We also added the Morning Sprint as a Content wise we continued our focus on owning differentiating factor at 6am. With the September weather and the big story. This means the wildfire in transition coming soon, that hour will become critical Duchesne County where we produced memorable for us. We won at noon, tied for #1 at 6 and 10 as well. coverage. And when the weather got bad in Southern We completed much of our switcher changes and Utah, we were the only ones in place to cover it. launched new graphics. After some early challenges, Overall a fine month and one to build on. it seems that we have worked things out. SALES After a very difficult 2nd quarter, One of the key reasons why we advertising in September that we the sales staff in Salt Lake City is are having a very good July is our can make the CMS (Combined rebounding in a big way to start New Business effort across all Market Summary) here in Salt 3rd quarter. July is off to a very three sales teams. Some of the Lake City for 3rd quarter. positive start. stars are Amber Smith, Karen Currently, we are looking for an KMYU and KJZZ will make their Hodges, Tammy White and additional MC for both KMYU and budget for the month of July. Stuart Louie who are leading their KJZZ. If you know of anyone who Digital, for the first time in many respective stations in new may be interested please have months, will also eclipse their business development. them contact Doug Beck at 801- budget. Production will exceed Big picture - I feel very confident 839-1117 or refer them at their budget as well. with the help of political sinclair.employeereferrals.com.

HUMAN RESOURCES The 2019 Wellness Program offers two 2. Be Tobacco Free! Avoid the $50 per check tobacco user ways to lower your insurance premiums: fee. Complete the Tobacco Affidavit during Open 1. Earn the “Wellness Discount” of Enrollment. $50 per check by completing the The opportunities to lower your premiums are independent of Physician’s Verification Form and one another; you may qualify for either one or both. Make your submitting it by September 30th appointment today and don’t miss the opportunity to save!

TRAFFIC Fall programming is upon us! This is the time of the Night Rivals on KMYU. KJZZ also has the Tour of year with the most program changes, both on the Utah bike race coming up in August. network side as well as locally. The big changes for We’re working with master control and news on the KUTV include CBS This Morning 7-9am, Ellen at 3pm J-Bar which will air on the morning newscasts, the and News 4-5pm beginning September 3rd. launch date TBA. Sports explodes in August through the rest of the Congratulations Adele! Our very own Adele year (and of course the Super Bowl on KUTV, Jimenez will receive a 20-year employee recognition! February 3rd) with not only network NFL, college Adele has seen many changes over the years, and football and basketball (starting in December) but worked with various markets, stations (English and also non-network NFL including the Rams pre- Spanish) and traffic systems. She currently is an season on KMYU. Inventory Specialist with our Medford stations and And KJZZ and KMYU own high school football! does a great job for them. KJZZ will be airing Thursday Night Lights and Friday EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER | KUTV, KMYU, KJZZ | ISSUE 11 3

ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS The rebuild of master control is now in the stations involved in budgeting process and is still scheduled to be the repack (KSL, completed by the end of the year. KTVX, KUCW, KUED Sinclair is working with its stations to provide an AI and KBYU) have computer based speech recognition system to completed the provide closed captioning to our viewers. The on-air installations of their new transmitters as well. The old date for this new process is TBD. DTV Utah antenna system has been removed and The Mount Ogden ENG receive site was restored to modifications for the new antenna support structure operation, allowing improved live capabilities in the have been completed. north end of the valley and Wasatch back areas. Installation of the new antenna is scheduled to be AVID will be here in late September to perform completed by the end of August; about a week ahead contractual software upgrades to our system. The of the cut-over date (September 8th). Viewer migration of all PC files to the OneDrive cloud system notification of the broadcast channel change will be is on-going. handled by airing PSAs and running crawls beginning FCC SPECTRUM REPACK UPDATE on August 8th. The new transmitters for KUTV and KJZZ were installed and are now on the air. The other DTV Utah DID YOU KNOW? A group of KUTV employees and their friends just won a prestigious film competition? Congratulations to photographers Matt Michela, Patrick Fitzgibbon, and Todd Dinsmore, producers Maren Jensen and Cindy St. Clair, editor Jason Smith, and reporter Bronagh Tumulty! Their fun team won Best Film, Best Directing, and Best Editing in the 48 Hour Film Project. http://www.48hourfilm.com/salt-lake-city-ut/films/31807

EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH QUARTER Employee of the Month is now a Quarterly endeavor! Please make sure to continue to submit nominations for Employee of the Quarter at http://kutv2productions.com/eotm/. Thank you for your submissions. Your 2018 Continuous Improvement Committee: Suzanne Viehweg | Dannielle Malmstrom | Matthew Blank | Maren Jensen | Mary Nickles Tom Bottom | Sandy Dringman | Richard Archuleta | Rachel Kimber | Patrick Fitzgibbon | Mike Stringham