EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER | KUTV, KMYU, KJZZ ISSUE 14 Employee Newsletter

KENT’S CORNER

October has been a phenomenal month for our station as we have October 2018 worked together to put an exceptional product on air in the Newsroom, holding strong ratings for most newscasts daily experiencing a dip as anticipated going up against the World Series. Our Local and National Sales team has done an exceptional job closing the gap on the revenue deficit we experienced the first half of the year and as a result each employee that qualifies for the Incentive Plan will NOTES FROM HR receive a $100 bonus on their November 23rd paycheck for the third Referring a friend is easy! If your referral is hired and successfully quarter of 2018! Congratulations to everyone for all their hard work! completes their introductory period, Political has been a huge responsibility with many moving and ever- you will receive a referral bonus! Go to the referral site at changing parts between Shannon and Chris’s teams, they have sinclair.employeereferrals.com to managed to get their arms around it all, and keep their i’s dotted and t’s refer a friend. crossed! With their great efforts, we have managed to far exceed our NEW EMPLOYEES political budgets this year! Say hi to the new employees in October: I want to thank everyone for participating in the KUTV Utah JAZZ Daniel Lane ...... PT Studio Tech night! We had a great turn out! Andrew Huck ...... News Producer Paul Howard ...... News Photographer EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER | KUTV, KMYU, KJZZ | ISSUE 14 2

DEPARTMENT UPDATES NEWS October for the newsroom When it comes to day to day two very strong pieces. Matt continues with growth in owning news coverage, it is important we Gephardt and Michelle Poe the big story of the day. In some look to differentiate ourselves. literally helped save a woman’s cases, this is an event like the This comes by ignoring some life by exposing a flaw in Salt Lake shooting on the U of U campus. smaller stories to apply bigger HUD system. Then Chris Jones As several non-members of the coverage to others. On a single and Nadia Pflaum showed how team texted me, KUTV clearly day last week, we had team some schools failed to make the dominated the story. This coverage on two different stories grade when it comes to cafeteria domination stretched through unrelated to breaking news. This inspections. the night to the morning after, type of attention to the viewers And in the digital department, and continues to this day. Our needs is critical and helps us we will cross over six million page digging to bring impactful escape the sea of sameness that views for the first time in over a coverage to all screens certainly exists. year. Progress is measured in was a highlight in an otherwise Finally, with the start of the many ways, and we are showing it terrible story. November book, we led off with in on multiple levels. SALES The sales department is on fire for the month of Also, we want to thank our traffic department who October 2018. KUTV is 129% of budget, KMYU is has done an outstanding job keeping us all together 106% of budget, KJZZ is 120% of budget, digital is and handling whatever is thrown at them. 115% of budget and production is 107% of budget. All We also said goodbye to our amazing and in, the CMS is 126% of budget. This is simply an incredible Sue Odette and are so thankful for the joy outstanding effort by all concerned. and light she brought to our team and the station. If Special thanks to Shannon Eaker for the you know of anyone who would be a good fit for the outstanding work in handling political advertising. executive assistant position, please let Jessica Political has been a beast this year and she has Peterson know. handled it with class and dignity.

CREDIT The credit hub has had a fun time lately, 21 out of 26 markets were within company goal at quarter end, and for us that is a very big deal. Congratulations to our team! We are also so excited to welcome a new baby to our credit family! Ben and his wife Becky welcome little Owen James Honstein to their family. He came in at 8 lbs. and 12 oz. Isn’t he just adorable?

HUMAN RESOURCES 2019 Open Enrollment meetings will be announced soon and will be held in the first week of November. Watch for more information! EMPLOYEE NEWSLETTER | KUTV, KMYU, KJZZ | ISSUE 14 3

TRAFFIC The SASO hub is growing! We are adding three We are also in hiring mode for a Salt Lake Copy markets with eleven stations to our hub at the end of Coordinator as Sharon Molyneaux’s last day with the th the year. Along with that, we will be adding an team was October 16 . So please if you know of any Assistant Manager, two Inventory Specialists, and a possible candidates for any of the open positions Scheduling Specialist. they should all be posted.

ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS The AVID annual upgrade was completed as Sinclair Corporate in addition to the CC monitoring planned. The new MaxReality weather system was already being done for the broadcasts on KUTV, permanently installed and training was provided to KMYU and KJZZ. Corporate also clarified that all the weather staff. Also, a new LiveWire system was news cut-ins should be captioned for and is the added to KMYU master control to allow weather responsibility of the news department to order alerts outside of newscasts. This also allows KMYU to captioning for breaking news coverage. have the same capabilities as KUTV and KJZZ. FCC SPECTRUM REPACK UPDATE A New CBS LIDIA system used for news crawls Antenna operation at reduced power on the during CBS This Morning was installed. Deployment auxiliary antenna continues for all DTV Utah stations, of the eleven new Laptops and forty-six new Desktop including KUTV and KJZZ, while the modifications computers around the building was completed. required to correct the issues with the new main A new Satellite Antenna for reception of antenna are implemented. The parts to modify the programming feeds for master control was ordered antenna are currently being manufactured and with installation scheduled for early November. should be shipped in early November. The Work was completed on a new microwave antenna modifications should be completed by mid- used to backhaul video from our ENG receive site at November. Mt. Ogden. A new wireless mic system for the news studio was A 70” Touch Screen monitor for sales was installed ordered which will allow for a wider selection of nd on the 2 floor. A new computer to drive the monitor frequencies that can be used to avoid interference will be installed soon. from television broadcast channels and other Master Control began monitoring Closed wireless mic systems. Captioning on KUTV streaming as required by

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CHILI COOK-OFF Thank you all for a Spooktacular Halloween chili cook-off. It was a great time!

Presenting our winners: 1st Place – Tommy Bottom 2nd Place – Keith Pasker 3rd Place – Tracy Mangum Elk Chili Rooster Chicken Chili Pumpkin Spice Chili

EMPLOYEE OF THE 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 | Patrick Fitzgibbon | Mike Stringham