document_title: Bingo (United Kingdom)

question_text: what do you say when you win bingo

question_tokens: what do you say when you win bingo

text: Bingo (United Kingdom)

text: Description of the game[edit]

text: Strips of 6 tickets[edit]

text: A typical bingo ticket is shown to the right. It contains 27 spaces, arranged in nine columns by three rows. Each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. Each column contains up to three numbers, which are arranged as follows, with some variation depending on bingo companies and/or where the game is played (e.g. hall, club or online):[7][8]

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The first column contains numbers from 1 to 9 (or 10),
The second column numbers from 10 (or 11) to 20,
The third, 20 (or 21) to 30 and so on up until the last column, which contains numbers from 81 to 90.

text: Tickets are created as strips of 6, because this allows every number from 1 to 90 to appear across all 6 tickets. If they buy a full strip of six it means that players are guaranteed to mark off a number every time a number is called.

text: Gameplay[edit]

text: The game is presided over by a caller, whose job it is to call out the numbers and validate winning tickets. They will announce the prize or prizes for each game before starting. The caller will then usually say "Eyes down" to indicate that he is about to start. They then begin to call numbers as they are randomly selected, either by an electronic random number generator (RNG), by drawing counters from a bag or by using balls in a mechanical draw machine. Calling may take the format of simple repetition in the framework, "Both the fives, fifty five", or "Two and three, twenty three", but some numbers have special calls due to their significance. In some independent clubs, numbers ending in a zero are described as 'blind'. So for example, thirty would be called as 'three-o blind 30' The use of blind numbers is generally restricted to independent bingo clubs, as it is not common practice in either of the largest chains of bingo club operators, Gala and Mecca bingo.

text: The different winning combinations are:

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Four corners - the leftmost and rightmost numbers on the top and bottom lines.
Line – covering a horizontal line of five numbers on the ticket.
Two Lines – covering any two lines on the same ticket.
Full House – covering all fifteen numbers on the ticket.[9]

In New Zealand in bonus (Super Housie) games, often three lines may be claimed – top, middle and bottom, usually with much larger prizes, are also played at various times throughout the session.
In the UK, however, it is most common for a four corners game or a line game to be followed directly by a two line game and a full house game, or just by a full house game.
In the UK's National Bingo Game only a full house game is ever played.[10] The record payout for the national bingo game is over £1,100,000
In all cases, the last number called must be in the winning sequence. If a player does not stop the game in time and the caller calls out the next number the player's winning claim is often invalidated.

text: As each number is called, players check to see if it appears on their tickets. If it does, they mark it off with a special marker called a "dabber" or "dauber", or simply cross it off with a pen or pencil, depending on the venue. When all the numbers required to win a prize have been marked off, the player shouts in order to attract the caller's attention. There are no formal rules as to what can be shouted, but most players will shout "Yes" or "Bingo". Some players may also choose to shout "Line" or "House" depending on the prize, whilst others choose to shout "house" for any win (including a line or two lines), players may use any other call to attract the caller's attention (should they wish). An official or member of staff will then come and check the claim:

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In the UK with the increasing computerisation of bingo systems, an Auto-Validate system is often used in large clubs where a 1 to 8 digit security code is read out by a member of staff and checked against the entry for that ticket on the system. This saves the club from the time-consuming exercise of reading out every number on the ticket.
It is very unusual, even in the smallest of bingo clubs, for the numbers to be checked against the numbers generated by the caller. The only circumstances when this is done is when there is a computer error in the club that means that the Serial number or perm number of the winning ticket cannot be identified.

text: There will often be an interval halfway through the game. In UK bingo halls it is most common for Mechanised Cash Bingo to be played (see below).

text: Purchasing tickets[edit]

text: When players first arrive at the venue they can buy a book of tickets. Players generally buy their Main Session first, followed by any flyers such as National Bingo Game tickets, Early and Late sessions and special tickets.

text: In UK bingo clubs, all books are purchased from a book sales desk, located usually in the entrance of a club. Playing is divided into sessions with different books, each with a designated number of pages. In most UK bingo clubs, including all Gala and Mecca clubs, the first session, known as either the 'Early Session' (at Mecca) or the 'First Chance' (at Gala) is a three-page book played at around 13:00 for afternoon sessions and 19:00 for evening sessions, although the actual start time can vary per club. This is followed by a break in which Mechanised Cash Bingo is played (see below). This is followed by the main session (known as the Main Event at Gala), which consists of around 11 pages of bingo with a break in the middle of around half an hour. When players purchase their tickets, almost all players purchase tickets for the main session. Some arrive earlier and purchase books for the early session. When the main session finishes, there is another break with more Mechanised Cash Bingo followed by a late session. At Mecca, the late session consists of three pages and costs £3. At gala, a link (see below) is played for the late session (known as the 'Last Chance') and consists of two pages and is free.

text: Linked bingo[edit]

text: Mainstage bingo can be played as a link, in the same way that Mechanised Cash Bingo is played as a link (see below). This allows more prize money to be offered per game. One person from one club is the caller, and his or her voice is broadcast across all clubs taking part in the link. At all Gala Bingo clubs in the UK, the 'Last Chance' is a two-page book of 6 tickets which is played across around 30 clubs. People play the game in exactly the same way as ordinary mainstage bingo, and the same game rules apply. The prize money is £100 for a line, £100 for two lines and £100 for a full house during afternoon sessions and £200 for a line, £200 for two lines and £200 for a full house during evening sessions across both pages of the book. If somebody has a claim, they are still required to shout. The host of the winning club then turns their microphone on and says 'claim in...' followed by the name of the club, which stops gameplay so that the claim can be checked.

text: It is sometimes necessary to have a linked game during the main session across certain clubs where the amount of ticket sales for that club has not been high enough to allow for a considerable amount of prize money. For example, during weekday afternoon sessions and Monday and Wednesday evening sessions, The Gala Bingo clubs in Aldershot, Dover, Maidstone, Nottingham St. Anne's and Wokingham link up for four pages of gameplay during the first half of Gala Bingo's Main Event. This allows them to offer better prize money to customers given the fact that the clubs are very small and don't generate enough money from book sales to offer considerable prize money.[11]

text: Windfalls[edit]

text: Most bingo clubs offer windfalls (see Windfall gain) on certain games, which allows clubs to offer significantly more prize money for a certain game without having to pay out that amount of prize money every time the game is played. Windfalls vary per club, some clubs offering more windfalls during a session of bingo than others. Some clubs charge for certain windfalls, whereas other windfalls are free. For example, the bingo bonus played at all Mecca clubs generally costs an extra £1 to play (see below). Examples are:

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Bullseye: call house in exactly 50 numbers and win an extra £50 (played at all Gala Bingo clubs in the UK)
Double Bubble: call house on any of the numbers 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77 or 88 and double your full house prize money (played at all Gala Bingo clubs in the UK)
Lucky Stars: on pages of bingo where the Lucky Star game is played, each player is assigned a number from 1 to 90. This number is known as their Lucky Star. If they call house on their lucky star, then they can win an extra £1000 if playing during an afternoon session or £2000 if playing during an evening session. (played at all Gala Bingo clubs in the UK)
Bingo Bonus: call house in a certain number of calls and win the jackpot. This is played across all Mecca Bingo clubs in the UK and the jackpot varies from £750 to £1500, depending on the club in which it is played. The number of calls in which to call house varies also, for example the Mecca Club in Beeston states that if you call house in 46 numbers or less on the bonus page, then you win an extra £1500. In Mecca Knotty Ash, if you call house in 49 numbers or less on the bingo bonus page, you win an extra £1000. In Mecca Thanet, if you call house in 47 numbers or less on the bingo bonus page, you win an extra £1000. As you can see, in some Mecca clubs it is easier to win £1000 on the bingo bonus page than others, because the number of calls required to win varies depending on the size of the club.
Gala Bingo's High 5: (see below)

text: Electronic bingo[edit]

text: Most bingo clubs in the UK now offer electronic bingo.[12] This allows players to purchase more than the standard 6 tickets per game, thus increasing their chances of winning. Customers purchase 'bingo packages', consisting of a certain number of tickets for each game, as well as extra flyers or special tickets such as National Bingo Game tickets. The electronic terminal on which the game is played automatically marks the numbers off the tickets when each number is called. It then orders the tickets so that the best tickets in play can be seen on the screen. This allows players to purchase a larger number of tickets than they would usually be able to handle from playing on paper. Of course, the cost of electronic bingo is proportionally higher than playing the standard 6 tickets. In order to encourage more customers to play electronic bingo, clubs usually sell 'Electronic Bingo Packages' which effectively makes the cost of each ticket better value for money. For example, if a club was selling strips of 6 for £12 for a session, which corresponds to £2 per ticket, then they may sell an Electronic Bingo Package of 24 tickets for £36; £1.50 per ticket.

text: The electronic board on which the tickets are played are usually black touchscreen terminals, with screens slightly larger than DVD cases. Players who use these terminals are required to use their club membership to add credit to their club 'accounts'[9] in order to purchase bingo tickets. When a player wins, they are still required to shout. After their claim is verified, the winnings are automatically deposited into the players bingo account. This means that the staff member who verifies their claim does not need to physically provide them with their cash winnings. The electronic boards now offer many features including Mechanised Cash Bingo (see below), in which players can play up to four boards instead of the usual two, as well as a variety of slot games and other gambling-based amusements. Players can either add credit to their bingo accounts to play these games, or spend bingo winnings. As of 2009, some larger Gala Bingo clubs have been able to offer 'Wizard Terminals',[13] which use exactly the same software as their clubs' touchpads, but have large upright screens which people play on, and are dedicated to one section of the club, often known as the 'Wizard Area'. In June 2012, Mecca Bingo introduced, for the first time, a similar section of electronic screens to its club in Catford,[14] as part of trial to see if they should be introduced into other clubs across the chain.

text: Two of the largest bingo club operators in the UK (Mecca Bingo Ltd. (part of The Rank Group plc) and Gala Bingo (Gala Coral Group Ltd.))[15] offer electronic bingo in most of their clubs. Electronic Bingo has become more and more popular in the UK in recent years as a means of improving the chances of a player to win, and making more profit for the club.

text: Bingo for profit[edit]

text: Bingo is an expanding and highly profitable business, with many companies competing for the customers' money.[16] The largest companies with bingo halls in the United Kingdom are Mecca Bingo Ltd. (part of The Rank Group plc) and Gala Bingo (Gala Coral Group Ltd.) In Northern Ireland, one of the largest bingo club groups is the Planet Bingo Group, with seven clubs around the region.[citation needed]

text: Online bingo is also becoming increasingly popular with many different companies launching sites such as tombola.co.uk, Sun Bingo (which also owns Fabulous Bingo and jackpotjoy.com), meccabingo.com, galabingo.com, xbingo.com and many others.

text: In Northern Ireland bingo clubs, where the laws governing bingo games are different from in England, Scotland and Wales, it is common, when playing "parti bingo" for the caller to announce that a position or "card" has won, and ending the game, without the participation of the person playing. This enables the customer to play more positions in hope of a better chance of winning.

text: Mechanised cash bingo[edit]

text: Mechanised cash bingo differs from paper bingo, because it is played on a bingo board that is 4x4 square, and split up into four columns of colours. The numbers are assigned the following colours:

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Numbers 1-20: red
Numbers 21-40: yellow
Numbers 41-60: blue
Numbers 61-80: white

text: Colours are assigned to the numbers because it makes it easier to distinguish between different numbers. For example, 17 and 70 can be confused, so instead 17 becomes 'red 17' and 70 becomes 'white 70'. This means that the automated voice which calls the numbers does not need to say, for example 'one and seven, seventeen', but 'red seventeen'. This means that the numbers can be called a lot faster by the caller (usually around 1.5 seconds a number).

text: In most UK bingo clubs, including most Gala Bingo clubs, mechanised cash bingo is played on a plastic board which has small windows which are used to cover up the numbers when they are called. In all Mecca Bingo clubs, bingo cards are built into the table tops and the numbers are covered up using small plastic chips.

text: The company involved will then use a computer (called a stage rig controller) to automatically take a "participation fee" which is set by the operator (usually between 40% and 60%). The rest of the credit is then put into the prize pool to be played for. The customer chooses when they want to play, and insert credit into a coin slot. Almost all games cost either 50p or £1 per board. Most clubs have two possible boards to play per coin slot, known as Board A and Board B. When credit is added to play a game, the A board is automatically lit. In order to bring the B board into play, players are required to insert extra credit and press their claim buttons in order to activate their B boards. Players can also play on their electronic bingo terminals by touching each board that they wish to bring into play. On electronic boards, players can choose from an A, B, C or D board.[17]

text: When a customer has a winning combination they press a claim button to stop the game. This is profitable for the operator as the games are so fast, and a huge parfee can be made in a few minutes. The prize money is then brought to their table. If someone wins on their electronic board, then the winnings are automatically deposited into their 'bingo account'. In Northern Ireland bingo clubs, where the laws governing bingo games are different from in Great Britain, it is common when playing mechanised cash bingo for the caller to announce that a position or 'card' has won, and ending the game without the participation of the person playing. In other words, clubs in Northern Ireland do not require players to press a claim button. This enables the customer to play more positions in hope of a better chance of winning.

text: In order to encourage more people to play, and to offer better prize money, larger bingo operators offer games which are linked with other clubs, generally known as 'the Link'. Generally, between 10 and 20 clubs will link up and play a much larger game of mechanised cash bingo, with prize money in the hundreds. One person from one club will host the game, talking to all other clubs simultaneously over their microphone system. When someone in a club wins, the host from the winning club will say 'claim in...' followed by the name of the club. For example, if there was a winner in Gala Bingo in Wavertree Park, then the host of the Wavertree Park club would immediately turn on their microphone and say 'Claim in Wavertree Park'. As of September 2011, when Gala Bingo stopped operating their own version of a national bingo game (see National Bingo Game), they introduced a Mechanised Cash Bingo link known as 'Party Xtra XL'. This game is played amongst all Gala Bingo clubs in Great Britain before each Main Session, with prize money typically ranging between £4,000 and £8,000 for weekday afternoon sessions and between £10,000 and £21,000 for evening and weekend afternoon sessions.[9] The highest amount ever won for this game was approximately £26,000, won by a single player on 17 October 2011. Most Gala clubs were exceptionally busy, because this was the date of Gala's 20th anniversary.

text: In November 2012, Mecca introduced its own version of Gala's National Party Xtra XL game, known as the Richest Link. Equally, all Mecca clubs in the UK link up offering prize money worth thousands of pounds. In addition to this, if a winning player claims on their top red number, then they win the jackpot of an extra £10000 on top of their full house prize money.

text: Mechanised cash bingo has also allowed bingo halls to focus on the more lucrative business of bingo.

text: National Bingo Game[edit]

text: The National Bingo Game is a bingo game operated by the National Bingo Game Association since 1986 and played in some British bingo clubs. The largest National Bingo Game operator in the UK is Mecca Bingo with approximately 97 clubs[18] participating in the game.

text: Gala Bingo's High 5 game[edit]

text: Gala Bingo withdrew from the National Bingo Game in 2008 and created their own version of the game, known as the High 5 game. The game was played immediately before the second half of each Main Event, the same time as when they would have previously played the National Bingo Game. The game was a link game across all clubs in the UK. The prizes were £1000 for a line, £2000 for two lines and £3000 for a full house. In addition to the standard full house prizes were windfalls, offering the chance to win more money. If the winning player called house on any number ending in the number 5, then they took £25000 instead of £3000. If the player called house on the number 5, then they won half of the Progressive jackpot, with the other half of the progressive jackpot being shared amongst all other members of the club in which the winning ticket was won. In September 2011, Gala ended the High 5 game. The Party Xtra XL game was then introduced (see above) and the High 5 game itself was replaced with the 'Special Ticket' (see below).

text: Gala Bingo's special tickets[edit]

text: Special tickets are named after each Gala Bingo club in which they are played. For example, the tickets are known as 'The Wavertree Special' in Gala Wavertree Park. The special tickets are played with numbers 1-80 in exactly the same format as the mechanised cash bingo (see above), but are played on paper (unless the customer is playing on an electronic terminal). It's a simple full house game with a given in-house jackpot based on the number of tickets sold. In addition the following windfalls apply:

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Call house in between 45 and 51 calls and win an extra £500
Call house in between 41 and 44 calls and win an extra £5000
Call house in 40 numbers or less and win an extra £20000

text: Online bingo[edit]

text: The prevalence of the online bingo games has dramatically increased the number of online gamers and many online gaming community members in the UK have started learning and participating in bingo.

text: Gambling[edit]

text: In the UK, entering a bingo hall premises or taking part in online bingo is illegal to anyone under the age of 18[18] because it is regarded as gambling. According to The Rank Group, the average spend per visit to a Mecca Bingo club is £15.96,[19] with people spending more and more money as electronic bingo becomes increasingly popular. Bingo is an area where people can suffer from problem gambling,[15] just like any other form of gambling addiction. Bingo in the UK is regarded much more seriously as gambling rather than the old-fashioned way of playing it in a village hall or church. Bingo is now regarded as a leisure industry, thought to be worth around £1.3 billion.[20]

text: Nicknames[edit]

text: In the game of bingo in the United Kingdom, callers announcing the numbers have traditionally used some nicknames to refer to particular numbers if they are drawn. The nicknames are sometimes known by the rhyming phrase 'bingo lingo' and there are rhymes for each number from 1 to 90, some of which date back many decades. In some clubs the 'bingo caller' will say the number, with the assembled players intoning the rhyme in a call and response manner, in others, the caller will say the rhyme and the players chant the number. In 2003, Butlins holiday camps introduced some more modern calls devised by a Professor of Popular Culture in an attempt to bring fresh interest to bingo.[21][22]

text: Since the introduction of the electronic random number generator (RNG) in bingo halls in the UK, the usage of the nicknames or bingo calls above in mainstream bingo has dramatically decreased.

text: In popular culture[edit]

text: The BBC1 game show Bob's Full House hosted by Bob Monkhouse was based on Bingo. Unlike a normal bingo card which uses a 3x9 grid with the numbers 1 to 90, the show only used a 3x6 grid with the numbers 1 to 60 on the contestants' cards and the Gold Card bonus round board.


document_title: Pink Floyd – The Wall

question_text: who played pink in pink floyd the wall

question_tokens: who played pink in pink floyd the wall

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text: Pink Floyd – The Wall

text: Plot[edit]

text: Pink is a rock star, one of several reasons behind his apparent depressive and detached emotional state. He is first seen in an unkempt hotel room, motionless and expressionless, watching television while the Vera Lynn recording of "The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot" plays. It is later revealed that Pink's father, a British soldier, was killed in action while defending the Anzio bridgehead during World War II, in Pink's infancy.

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text: In a flashback, Pink is a young English boy growing up in the early 1950s. Throughout his childhood, Pink longs for a father figure. He discovers a scroll from "kind old King George" and other relics from his father's military service and death, placing a bullet on the track of an oncoming train. At school, he is caught writing poems in class and humiliated by the teacher. To the tune of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", Pink imagines a surrealistically oppressive school system in which children fall into a meat grinder. The children then rise in rebellion and destroy the school, carrying the Teacher away to an unknown fate. Pink is also negatively affected by his overprotective mother. Such traumatic experiences are represented as "bricks" in the metaphorical wall he constructs around himself that divides him from society.

text: As an adult, Pink eventually marries, but he and his wife soon grow apart. While he is in the United States on tour, Pink learns that his wife is having an affair. He turns to a willing groupie, whom he brings back to his hotel room only to trash it in a fit of violence, terrifying the groupie out of the room.

text: Pink slowly begins to lose his mind to metaphorical "worms". He shaves all his body hair and, while watching The Dam Busters on television, morphs into a neo-Nazi alter-ego. Pink's manager, along with the hotel manager and some paramedics, discover Pink unresponsive and inject him with drugs to enable him to perform.

text: Pink fantasizes that he is a dictator and his concert is a neo-Nazi rally. His followers proceed to attack ethnic minorities, and Pink holds a rally in suburban London, singing "Waiting for the Worms". The scene is intercut with images of animated marching hammers that goose-step across ruins. Pink then stops hallucinating and screams "Stop!" He then takes refuge in the toilets at the concert venue, reciting poems.

text: In a climactic animated sequence, Pink, depicted as a small, almost inanimate rag doll, is on trial, and his sentence is "to be exposed before [his] peers." The judge gives the order to "tear down the wall". Following a prolonged silence, the wall is smashed.

text: Several children are seen cleaning up a pile of debris after an earlier riot, with a freeze-frame on one of the children emptying a Molotov cocktail.

text: Cast[edit]

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Bob Geldof as Pink

Kevin McKeon as Young Pink
David Bingham as Little Pink

Christine Hargreaves as Pink's mother
Eleanor David as Pink's wife
Alex McAvoy as Teacher
Bob Hoskins as Rock-and-roll manager
Michael Ensign as Hotel manager
James Laurenson as Pink's father
Jenny Wright as American groupie
Margery Mason as Teacher's wife
Ellis Dale as English doctor
James Hazeldine as Lover
Ray Mort as Playground father
Robert Bridges as American doctor
Joanne Whalley, Nell Campbell, Emma Longfellow, and Lorna Barton as Groupies
Philip Davis and Gary Olsen as Roadies

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text: Production[edit]

text: Concept[edit]

text: In the mid-1970s, as Pink Floyd gained mainstream fame, Waters began feeling increasingly alienated from their audiences:

text: Audiences at those vast concerts are there for an excitement which, I think, has to do with the love of success. When a band or a person becomes an idol, it can have to do with the success that that person manifests, not the quality of work he produces. You don't become a fanatic because somebody's work is good, you become a fanatic to be touched vicariously by their glamour and fame. Stars—film stars, rock 'n' roll stars—represent, in myth anyway, the life as we'd all like to live it. They seem at the very centre of life. And that's why audiences still spend large sums of money at concerts where they are a long, long way from the stage, where they are often very uncomfortable, and where the sound is often very bad.[3]

text: Waters was also dismayed by the "executive approach", which was only about success, not even attempting to get acquainted with the actual persons of whom the band was comprised (addressed in an earlier song from Wish You Were Here, "Have a Cigar"). The concept of the wall, along with the decision to name the lead character "Pink", partly grew out of that approach, combined with the issue of the growing alienation between the band and their fans.[4] This symbolised a new era for rock bands, as Pink Floyd "explored (... ) the hard realities of 'being where we are'", drawing upon existentialists, namely Jean-Paul Sartre.[5]

text: Development[edit]

text: Even before the original Pink Floyd album was recorded, a film was intended to be made from it.[6] However, the concept of the film was intended to be live footage from the album's tour, with Scarfe's animation and extra scenes.[7] The film was going to star Waters himself.[7] EMI did not intend to make the film, as they did not understand the concept.[8]

text: Director Alan Parker, a Pink Floyd fan, asked EMI whether The Wall could be adapted to film. EMI suggested that Parker talk to Waters, who had asked Parker to direct the film. Parker instead suggested that he produce it and give the directing task to Gerald Scarfe and Michael Seresin, a cinematographer.[9] Waters began work on the film's screenplay after studying scriptwriting books. He and Scarfe produced a special-edition book containing the screenplay and art to pitch the project to investors. While the book depicted Waters in the role of Pink, after screen tests, he was removed from the starring role[10] and replaced with punk musician and frontman of the Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof.[7] In Behind the Wall, both Waters and Geldof later admitted to a story during casting where Geldof and his manager took a taxi to an airport, and Geldof's manager pitched the role to the singer, who continued to reject the offer and express his contempt for the project throughout the fare, unaware that the taxi driver was Waters' brother, who promptly proceeded to tell Waters about Geldof's opinion.

text: Since Waters was no longer in the starring role, it no longer made sense for the feature to include Pink Floyd footage, so the live film aspect was dropped.[11] The footage culled from the five Wall concerts at Earl's Court from 13–17 June 1981 that were held specifically for filming was deemed unusable also for technical reasons as the fast Panavision lenses needed for the low light levels turned out to have insufficient resolution for the movie screen. Complex parts such as "Hey You" still had not been properly shot by the end of the live shows.[12] Parker also managed to convince Waters and Scarfe that the concert footage was too theatrical and that it would jar with the animation and stage live action. After the concert footage was dropped, Seresin left the project and Parker became the only director connected to The Wall.[13]

text: Filming[edit]

text: Parker, Waters and Scarfe frequently clashed with each other during production, to the point where the director described the filming as "one of the most miserable experiences of my creative life."[14] Scarfe declared that he would drive to Pinewood Studios carrying a bottle of Jack Daniel's, because "I had to have a slug before I went in the morning, because I knew what was coming up, and I knew I had to fortify myself in some way."[15]

text: During production, while filming the destruction of a hotel room, Geldof suffered a cut to his hand as he pulled away the Venetian blinds. The footage remains in the film. Also, it was discovered while filming the pool scenes that Geldof did not know how to swim. Interiors were shot at Pinewood Studios, and it was suggested that they suspend Geldof in Christopher Reeve's clear cast used for the Superman flying sequences, but his frame was too small by comparison; it was then decided to make a smaller rig that was a more acceptable fit, and he simply lay on his back.[16]

text: The war scenes were shot on Saunton Sands in North Devon, which was also featured on the cover of Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason six years later.[17]

text: Release[edit]

text: The film was shown "out of competition" during the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.[18]

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The premiere at Cannes was amazing – the midnight screening. They took down two truckloads of audio equipment from the recording studios so it would sound better than normal. It was one of the last films to be shown in the old Palais which was pretty run down and the sound was so loud it peeled the paint off the walls. It was like snow – it all started to shower down and everyone had dandruff at the end. I remember seeing Terry Semel there, who at the time was head of Warner Bros., sitting next to Steven Spielberg. They were only five rows ahead of me and I'm sure I saw Steven Spielberg mouthing to him at the end when the lights came up, 'what the fuck was that?' And Semel turned to me and then bowed respectfully. 'What the fuck was that?,' indeed. It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before – a weird fusion of live-action, story-telling and of the surreal.

Alan Parker[19]

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text: The film's official premiere was at the Empire, Leicester Square[20] in London, on 14 July 1982. It was attended by Waters and fellow Pink Floyd members David Gilmour and Nick Mason, but not Richard Wright,[20] who was no longer a member of the band. It was also attended by various celebrities including Geldof, Scarfe, Paula Yates, Pete Townshend, Sting, Roger Taylor, James Hunt, Lulu and Andy Summers.[21]

text: Box office and critical reception[edit]

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So it's difficult, painful and despairing, and its three most important artists came away from it with bad feelings. Why would anybody want to see it? Perhaps because filming this material could not possibly have been a happy experience for anyone—not if it's taken seriously.

Roger Ebert[22]

text: The film opened with a limited release on 6 August 1982 and entered at No. 28 of the US box office charts despite only playing in one theatre on its first weekend, grossing over $68,000, a rare feat even by today's standards. The film then spent just over a month below the top 20 while still in the top 30. The film later expanded to over 600 theatres on 10 September, achieving No. 3 at the box office charts, below E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and An Officer and a Gentleman. The film eventually earned $22 million before closing in early 1983.[2]

text: The film received generally positive reviews. Reviewing The Wall on their television programme At the Movies in 1982, film critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel gave the film "two thumbs up". Ebert described The Wall as "a stunning vision of self-destruction" and "one of the most horrifying musicals of all time ... but the movie is effective. The music is strong and true, the images are like sledge hammers, and for once, the rock and roll hero isn't just a spoiled narcissist, but a real, suffering image of all the despair of this nuclear age. This is a real good movie." Siskel was more reserved in his judgement, stating that he felt that the film's imagery was too repetitive. However, he admitted that the "central image" of the fascist rally sequence "will stay with me for an awful long time." In February 2010, Roger Ebert added The Wall to his list of "Great Movies," describing the film as "without question the best of all serious fiction films devoted to rock. Seeing it now in more timid times, it looks more daring than it did in 1982, when I saw it at Cannes ... It's disquieting and depressing and very good."[22]

text: It was chosen for the opening night of Ebertfest 2010. Rotten Tomatoes currently ranks the film with a critics' review rating of 70% (based on 20 reviews). Danny Peary wrote that the "picture is unrelentingly downbeat and at times repulsive ... but I don't find it unwatchable – which is more than I could say if Ken Russell had directed this. The cinematography by Peter Biziou is extremely impressive and a few of the individual scenes have undeniable power."[23] Waters has expressed deep reservations about the film, saying that the filming had been "a very unnerving and unpleasant experience ... we all fell out in a big way." As for the film itself, he said: "I found it was so unremitting in its onslaught upon the senses, that it didn't give me, anyway, as an audience, a chance to get involved with it," although he had nothing but praise for Geldof's performance.[24] David Gilmour stated (on the "In the Studio with Redbeard" episodes of The Wall, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and On an Island) that the conflict between him and Waters started with the making of the film. Gilmour also stated on the documentary Behind The Wall (which was aired on the BBC in the UK and VH1 in the US) that "the movie was the less successful telling of The Wall story as opposed to the album and concert versions." Although the symbol of the crossed hammers used in the film and not related to any real racist group, it was adopted by white supremacist group the Hammerskins in the late 1980s.[25] It earned its creators two British Academy Awards; 'Best Sound' for James Guthrie, Eddy Joseph, Clive Winter, Graham Hartstone & Nicholas Le Messurier;[26] and 'Best Original Song' for Waters.[26]

text: Themes and analysis[edit]

text: It has been suggested that the protagonist stands in some way for Waters. Beyond the obvious parallel of them both being rock stars, Waters lost his father while he was an infant and had marital problems, divorcing several times.[27]

text: Romelo and Cabo place the Nazism and imperialism related symbols in the context of Margaret Thatcher's government and British foreign policy especially concerning the Falklands issue.[28]

text: Home media[edit]

text: Pink Floyd – The Wall was released on VHS in 1983 (MV400268), 1989 (M400268), 1994 (M204694) by MGM/UA Home Entertainment, and 1999 (CV50198) by Columbia Music Video.

text: The DVD was released in 1999 (UPC: 074645019895) and 2005 (UPC: 074645816395) by Columbia Music Video.

text: Awards[edit]

text:
List of awards

Award
Category
Recipient(s)
Result

BAFTA Film Award
Best Original Song
Roger Waters For the song "Another Brick in the Wall"
Won

BAFTA Film Award
Best Sound
James Guthrie
Eddy Joseph
Clive Winter
Graham V. Hartstone
Nicolas Le Messurier
Won

Saturn Award
Best Poster Art
Gerald Scarfe
Nominated

tag: table

text: Documentary[edit]

text: A documentary was produced about the making of Pink Floyd – The Wall entitled The Other Side of the Wall that includes interviews with Parker, Scarfe, and clips of Waters, originally aired on MTV in 1982. A second documentary about the film was produced in 1999 entitled Retrospective that includes interviews with Waters, Parker, Scarfe, and other members of the film's production team. Both are featured on The Wall DVD as extras.

text: Soundtrack[edit]

text:
Pink Floyd - The Wall

Soundtrack album by Pink Floyd

Released
Unreleased

Recorded
1981–1982

Genre
Progressive rock

Pink Floyd soundtracks chronology

Obscured by Clouds
(1972)Obscured by Clouds1972
Pink Floyd - The Wall
(1982)
La Carrera Panamericana
(1992)La Carrera Panamericana1992

Singles from Pink Floyd - The Wall

"When the Tigers Broke Free"
Released: 26 July 1982

text: Song changes from album:

text:
Track
Changes

"When the Tigers Broke Free" 1
New song, edited into two sections strictly for the film, but later released as one continuous song.[29] The song was released as a single in 1982 and was later included on the 2001 compilation Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd and on the 2004 re-release of The Final Cut.

"In the Flesh?"
Extended/re-mixed/lead vocal re-recorded by Geldof.[29]

"The Thin Ice"
Extended/re-mixed[29] with additional piano overdub in second verse, baby sounds removed.

"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1"
Extra bass parts, which were muted on the album mix, can be heard.

"When the Tigers Broke Free" 2
New song.[29]

"Goodbye Blue Sky"
Re-mixed.[29]

"The Happiest Days of Our Lives"
Re-mixed. Helicopter sounds dropped, teacher's lines re-recorded by Alex McAvoy.[29]

"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"
Re-mixed[29] with extra lead guitar, children's chorus part edited and shortened, teacher's lines re-recorded by McAvoy and interspersed within children's chorus portion.

"Mother"
Re-recorded completely with exception of guitar solo and its backing track. The lyric "Is it just a waste of time?" is replaced with "Mother, am I really dying?", which is what appeared on the original LP lyric sheet.[29]

"What Shall We Do Now?"
A full-length song which begins with the music of, and a similar lyric to "Empty Spaces". This was intended to be on the original album, and in fact appears on the original LP lyric sheet. At the last minute, it was dropped in favour of the shorter "Empty Spaces" (which was originally intended as a reprise of "What Shall We Do Now"). A live version is on the album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81.[29]

"Young Lust"
Screams added and phone call part removed. The phone call part was moved to the beginning of "What Shall We Do Now?"

"One of My Turns"
Re-mixed. Groupie's lines re-recorded by Jenny Wright.

"Don't Leave Me Now"
Shortened and remixed.

"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3"
Re-recorded completely[29] with a slightly faster tempo.

"Goodbye Cruel World"
Unchanged.

"Is There Anybody Out There?"
Classical guitar re-recorded, this time played with a leather pick by guitarist Tim Renwick[30], as opposed to the album version, which was played finger-style by Joe DiBlasi.

"Nobody Home"
Musically unchanged, but with different clips from the TV set.

"Vera"
Unchanged.

"Bring the Boys Back Home"
Re-recorded completely with brass band and Welsh male vocal choir extended and without Waters' lead vocals.[20]

"Comfortably Numb"
Re-mixed with Geldof's scream added. Bass line partially different from album.

"In the Flesh"
Re-recorded completely with brass band and Geldof on lead vocals.[29]

"Run Like Hell"
Re-mixed and shortened.

"Waiting for the Worms"
Shortened but with extended coda.

"5:11 AM (The Moment of Clarity)"
Geldof unaccompanied on lead vocals. The song is taken from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, a concept album Waters wrote simultaneously with The Wall, and later recorded solo. Geldof sings the lyrics to the melody of "Your Possible Pasts", a song intended for The Wall that later appeared on The Final Cut.

"Stop"
Re-recorded completely[29] with Geldof unaccompanied on lead vocals. (The audio in the background of this scene is from Gary Yudman's introduction from The Wall Live at Earl's Court.)

"The Trial"
Re-mixed.

"Outside the Wall"
Re-recorded completely[29] with brass band and Welsh male voice choir. Extended with a musical passage similar to "Southampton Dock" from The Final Cut.[31][32]

text: The only songs from the album not used in the film are "Hey You" and "The Show Must Go On". "Hey You" was deleted as Waters and Parker felt the footage was too repetitive (eighty percent of the footage appears in montage sequences elsewhere)[14] but available to view as a bonus feature on the DVD release under the name "Reel 13".[33]

text: A soundtrack album from Columbia Records was listed in the film's end credits, but only a single containing "When the Tigers Broke Free" and the rerecorded "Bring the Boys Back Home" was released. "When the Tigers Broke Free" later became a bonus track on the band's 1983 album The Final Cut, an album Waters intended as an extension to The Wall. Guitarist David Gilmour, however, dismissed the album as a collection of songs that had been rejected for The Wall project, but were being recycled. The song, in the edit used for the single, also appears on the 2001 compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.

text:
Year
Chart
Position

2005
Australian ARIA DVD Chart
#10


document_title: List of stations owned or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group

question_text: what stations in seattle are owned by sinclair

text: Current television stations

text: By affiliation

text: This table includes satellite, semi-satellite, and Class A stations.

text:
Network
Primary
(DT1 Affiliation)
Sub-channel

ABC
33
7

Antenna TV
1
18

Azteca América
1
2

Bounce TV

1

CBS
27
3

Charge!

58

Comet
2
83

Cozi TV

2

CW+
3
14

The CW
22
9

Estrella TV

2

Fox
43
9

GetTV

6

Grit

3

Independent
2

Justice Network

1

MeTV
3
18

Movies!

4

MyNetworkTV
22
16

NBC
22
2

Stadium

42

TBD

74

Telemundo

1

This TV
2
13

UniMás
1

Univision
7

WeatherNation TV

2

text: By state and market

text: A blank affiliation indicates a subchannel not currently operational.[2]

text:
City of license / Market
Station
Channel
TV (RF)
Year acquired
DT1 affiliation
DT2 affiliation
DT3 affiliation
DT4 affiliation

Birmingham - Tuscaloosa - Anniston, AL
WTTO
21 (28)
1995
The CW
Antenna TV
Comet
TBD

WABM
68 (36)
2001
MyNetworkTV
ABC
(WBMA-LD simulcast)
weather

WDBB[a]
(Satellite of WTTO)
17 (18)
1995
The CW
ABC
(WBMA-LD simulcast)

WBMA-LD[b]
58 (40)
2014
ABC
weather
Stadium
Charge!

Mobile, AL & Pensacola, FL
WEAR-TV
3 (17)
1997
ABC
TBD
Charge!

WPMI-TV[c][d]
15 (15)
2012
NBC
WeatherNation TV
Stadium

WFGX
35 (50)
2001
MyNetworkTV & This TV
GetTV
Comet

WJTC[c][d]
44 (45)
2012
Independent
Grit

Little Rock, AR
KATV[b]
7 (22)
2014
ABC
Comet
Charge!
TBD

Bakersfield, CA
KBAK-TV[e]
29 (33)
2013
CBS
Charge!
Fox
(KBFX-CD simulcast)

KBFX-CD[e]
58 (29)
2013
Fox
TBD
Comet

Chico, CA - Redding, CA
KRCR-TV[f]
7 (7)
2017
ABC
MeTV
Movies!

KXVU-LP[f]
17
2017
Antenna TV

KCVU[a][f]
20 (20)
2017
Fox
Cozi TV

KRVU-LD[f]
21 (21)
2017
MyNetworkTV

KZVU-LD[f]
(Satellite of KRVU-LD)
22 (22)
2017

KUCO-LP[f]
27
2017
Univision

KKTF-LD[f]
30 (30)
2017
UniMás

Eureka, California & Arcata, CA
KAEF-TV[f]
(Semi-satellite of KRCR)
23 (22)
2017
ABC
MeTV
Movies!

KBVU [a][f]
(Semi-satellite of KCVU)
28 (28)
2017
Fox
Cozi TV

KECA-LD[f]
29 (29)
2017
CW+
MyNetworkTV

KEUV-LP[f]
31
2017
Univision

Fresno & Visalia, CA
KMPH-TV
26 (28)
2013
Fox
This TV
Comet
Stadium

KFRE-TV
59 (36)
2013
The CW
Estrella TV
TBD

Washington, DC
WJLA-TV[b]
7 (7)
2014
ABC
Charge!
Comet
TBD

Fort Pierce & West Palm Beach, FL
WPEC[g]
12 (13)
2012
CBS
WeatherNation TV
Comet

WTVX[h]
34 (34)
2012
The CW
Azteca América
(WWHB-CA simulcast)
MyNetworkTV
(WTCN-CA simulcast)

WTCN-CA[h]
43 (34.3)
2012
MyNetworkTV
Antenna TV
TBD

WWHB-CA[h]
48 (34.2)
2012
Azteca América
Charge!

Gainesville & High Springs, FL
WGFL[i]
28 (28)
2014
CBS
MyNetworkTV
(WMYG-LP simulcast)
TBD

WNBW-DT[i]
9 (9)
2014
NBC
Charge!
Comet
MeTV
(WYME-CD simulcast)

WMYG-LP[i]
11 (28.2)
2014
MyNetworkTV

WYME-CD[i]
45 (45)
2014
MeTV

Tallahassee, FL & Thomasville, GA
WTWC-TV[j]
40 (40)
1998
NBC
Fox
Charge!

WTLH[i]
49 (50)
2014
MeTV
CW+
(WTLF simulcast)
Comet

WTLF[i]
24 (24)
2014
CW+
Comet
TBD

Albany, GA
WFXL[k]
31 (12)
2013
Fox
TBD
Comet
Charge!

Macon, GA
WGXA
24 (16)
2014
Fox
ABC
Comet

Cedar Rapids - Waterloo -
Dubuque - Iowa City, IA
KGAN[j]
2 (29)
1998
CBS
GetTV
Comet

KFXA
28 (27)
[l]
Fox
Charge!
TBD
Stadium

Des Moines, IA
KDSM-TV[m]
17 (16)
1997
Fox
Comet
Charge!
TBD

Sioux City, IA
KPTH
44 (49)
2013
Fox
MyNetworkTV & This TV
Charge!

KMEG
14 (39)
[l]
CBS
TBD
Comet

Boise, ID
KBOI-TV[e]
2 (9)
2013
CBS
CW+
(KYUU-LD simulcast)
Charge!

KYUU-LD[e]
35 (28)
2013
CW+
TBD
Comet
Stadium

Lewiston, ID
KLEW-TV[e]
(KIMA-TV semi-satellite)
3 (32)
2013
CBS
Charge!
Comet

Champaign - Urbana -
Decatur - Springfield, IL
WICS[j]
20 (42)
1998
ABC
Comet
TBD
Charge!

WICD[j]
(WICS satellite)
15 (41)
1998
ABC
Comet
TBD
Charge!

WRSP-TV
55 (44)
[l]
Fox
MeTV
Antenna TV

WCCU
27 (26)

WBUI
22 (23)
[l]
The CW
This TV
Stadium

Peoria & Bloomington, IL
WHOI[k]
19 (19)
2013
Comet

WYZZ-TV[a][n]
43 (28)
1996
Fox
GetTV

South Bend, IN
WSBT-TV
22 (22)
2016
CBS
Fox

Wichita, KS
KSAS-TV[c]
24 (26)
2012
Fox
TBD
Comet

KAAS-TV[c]
17 (17)

KOCW[c]
17 (14)

KMTW[c]
36 (35)
[l]
MyNetworkTV
Stadium

Danville - Lexington, KY
WDKY-TV
56 (31)
2001
Fox
Comet
Charge!
TBD

Portland, ME
WGME-TV[j]
13 (38)
1998
CBS
TBD
Stadium

WPFO
23 (23)
[o]
Fox
Charge!
Comet

Baltimore, MD
WBFF[p]
45 (46)
1971
Fox
MyNetworkTV
TBD

WNUV[a]
54 (40)
1994
The CW
Antenna TV
Comet
Charge!

WUTB[d]
45.2 (46)
2013
MyNetworkTV

Flint - Saginaw - Bay City, MI
WEYI-TV[k][q]
25 (30)
2013
NBC
The CW
(WBSF simulcast)
TBD

WBSF[k][a]
46 (46)
2013
The CW
NBC
(WEYI-TV simulcast)
Charge!

WSMH
66 (16)
1996
Fox
Antenna TV
Comet
Stadium

Kalamazoo & Grand Rapids, MI
WWMT[g]
3 (8)
2012
CBS
The CW
Comet

Traverse City - Cadillac, MI
Cheboygan - Sault Ste. Marie, MI
WPBN-TV[k]
7 (47)
2013
NBC
ABC
(WGTU/WGTQ simulcast)
Comet

WTOM-TV[k]
4 (35)

WGTU[k][a]
29 (29)
2013
ABC
NBC
(WPBN-TV/WTOM-TV simulcast)

WGTQ[k][a]
8 (8)

Minneapolis & St. Paul, MN
WUCW
23 (22)
1998
The CW
Comet
Charge!
TBD

Cape Girardeau, MO - Paducah, KY -
Harrisburg, IL
KBSI
23 (22)
1998
Fox
MyNetworkTV
(WDKA simulcast)
Comet

WDKA
49 (49)
[l]
MyNetworkTV
Charge!
TBD
Stadium

Columbia - Jefferson City, MO
KRCG[k]
13 (12)
2013
CBS
Comet
Charge!
TBD

Hannibal, MO - Quincy, IL
KHQA-TV[k]
7 (7)
2013
CBS
ABC
Comet

Kirksville, MO - Ottumwa, IA
KTVO[k]
3 (33)
2013
ABC
CBS
Comet

St. Louis, MO
KDNL-TV[m]
30 (31)
1997
ABC
TBD
Charge!
Stadium

Missoula, MT
KECI-TV[f]
13 (13)
2017
NBC
MeTV
This TV

Kalispell, MT
KCFW-TV[f]
(Semi-satellite of KECI)
9 (9)
2017

Butte, MT
KTVM-TV[f]
(Semi-satellite of KECI)
6 (6)
2017

Bozeman, MT
KDBZ-CD[f]
(Satellite of KTVM)
42 (42)
2017

Hayes Center, NE
KWNB-TV
(Satellite of KHGI-TV)
6 (6)
2016
ABC
Fox
TBD

Kearney - Hastings, NE
KHGI-TV
13 (13)
2016
ABC
Fox
TBD

Lincoln, NE
KFXL-TV
51 (51)
2016
Fox

North Platte, NE
KHGI-CD
(Satellite of KHGI-TV)
13 (13)
2016
ABC

Omaha, NE
KPTM
42 (43)
2013
Fox
MyNetworkTV & This TV
Comet

KXVO
15 (39)
[l]
The CW
TBD
Charge!
Stadium

Elko, NV
KENV-DT
10 (10)
[r]
Comet

Las Vegas, NV
KSNV
3 (22)
1997
NBC
Estrella TV
Charge!
Stadium

KVCW
33 (29)
2000
The CW
MyNetworkTV
TBD
This TV

Reno, NV
KRNV-DT
4 (7)
[r]
NBC
This TV
TBD

KRXI-TV
11 (44)
2013
Fox
Charge!
Grit

KAME-TV[d]
21 (20)
2013
MyNetworkTV
Stadium
Comet

Buffalo, NY
WUTV[s]
29 (14)
1996
Fox
TBD
Grit

WNYO-TV
49 (49)
2001
MyNetworkTV
Stadium
Comet
GetTV

Rochester, NY
WHAM-TV[c][d]
13 (13)
2013
ABC
The CW
Charge!

WUHF[s]
31 (28)
1995
Fox
Antenna TV
Comet
TBD

Schenectady - Albany - Troy, NY
WRGB[g]
6 (6)
2012
CBS
TBD
Comet

WCWN[g]
45 (43)
2012
The CW
Charge!
CBS
(WRGB simulcast)
Stadium

Syracuse, NY
WSTM-TV[k]
3 (24)
2013
NBC
The CW
(WSTQ-LP simulcast)
Comet

WTVH
5 (47)
[t]
CBS
Charge!
TBD

WSTQ-LP[k]
14 (3.2)
2013
The CW

Asheville, NC
Greenville, SC & Spartanburg, SC
WLOS[m]
13 (13)
1997
ABC
MyNetworkTV
(WMYA-TV simulcast)
Antenna TV
Stadium

WMYA-TV[m][a]
40 (14)
1997
MyNetworkTV
Comet
TBD
Charge!

Greenville - New Bern - Morehead City, NC
WYDO[a][f]
14 (47)
2017
Fox
Bounce
Charge!
Stadium

WCTI-TV[f]
12 (12)
2017
ABC
Comet
Movies!
TBD

Raleigh - Durham, NC
WLFL
22 (27)
1994
The CW
Stadium
TBD
Antenna TV

WRDC
28 (28)
1995
MyNetworkTV
Charge!
Comet

Winston-Salem - Greensboro - High Point, NC
WXLV-TV[s]
45 (29)
1996
ABC
Stadium
Charge!
TBD

WMYV
48 (33)
2001
MyNetworkTV
GetTV
Comet

Cincinnati, OH
WKRC-TV[c]
12 (12)
2012
CBS
The CW
Stadium

WSTR-TV[l]
64 (33)
1995
MyNetworkTV
Antenna TV
Comet
TBD

Columbus & Chillicothe, OH
WSYX[m]
6 (48)
1997
ABC
MyNetworkTV & This TV
Antenna TV

WTTE[p][a]
28 (36)
1984
Fox
TBD
Stadium

WWHO[u]
53 (46)
2011
The CW
Charge!
Comet

Dayton, OH
WKEF
22 (51)
1998
ABC
Stadium
Antenna TV
TBD

WRGT-TV[s][a]
45 (30)
2001
Fox
MyNetworkTV & This TV
Comet
Charge!

Steubenville, OH & Wheeling, WV
WTOV-TV
9 (9)
2013
NBC
Fox
MeTV

Toledo, OH
WNWO-TV[k]
24 (49)
2013
NBC
Stadium
Comet
TBD

Oklahoma City, OK
KOKH-TV
25 (24)
2003
Fox
Charge!
Stadium

KOCB
34 (33)
1996
The CW
TBD
Comet

Tulsa, OK
KTUL[b]
8 (10)
2014
ABC
Comet
Charge!
TBD

Eugene, OR
Coos Bay, OR
Roseburg, OR
KVAL-TV[e]
13 (25)
2013
CBS
TBD
Charge!

KCBY-TV[e]
11 (21)

KPIC[e][v]
4 (19)

KMTR[e]
16 (17)
[l]
NBC
CW+
Comet

KMCB[e]
23 (22)

KTCW[e]
46 (45)

Medford, OR
KTVL[g]
10 (10)
2012
CBS
CW+
Comet
TBD

Portland, OR
KATU[e]
2 (43)
2013
ABC
MeTV
Comet
Stadium

KUNP[e]
16 (16)
2013
Univision
TBD
Charge!

Harrisburg - Lancaster - Lebanon - York, PA
WHP-TV[c]
21 (21)
2012
CBS
MyNetworkTV
The CW

Johnstown & Altoona, PA
WJAC-TV
6 (34)
2013
NBC
MeTV
Comet
TBD

WWCP-TV[w]
8 (8)
2016
Fox
ABC

'WATM-TV’[w]
23 (24)
2016
ABC
Fox
This TV
Antenna TV

Pittsburgh, PA
WPGH-TV
53 (43)
1991
Fox
Antenna TV
Charge!

WPNT[p]
22 (42)
2000[x]
MyNetworkTV
Stadium
Comet
TBD

Scranton - Wilkes-Barre, PA
WOLF-TV[i]
56 (45)
2014
Fox
The CW
(WSWB simulcast)
MyNetworkTV
(WQMY simulcast)

WQMY[i]
53 (29)
2014
MyNetworkTV
Fox
(WOLF-TV simulcast)
The CW
(WSWB simulcast)

WSWB[i]
38 (31)
2014
The CW
MeTV
Comet
Stadium

Providence, RI & New Bedford, MA
WJAR
10 (50)
2014
NBC
MeTV
Comet
TBD

Charleston, SC
WTAT-TV[s][a]
24 (24)
1995
Fox
Justice Network
Comet

WCIV
36 (36)
1998
MyNetworkTV
ABC
MeTV

Columbia, SC
WACH[k]
57 (48)
2013
Fox
Stadium
Comet
TBD

Florence & Myrtle Beach, SC
WPDE-TV[k]
15 (16)
2013
ABC
weather
Comet
TBD

WWMB[q]
21 (21)
2013
The CW
CW+
Stadium
Charge

Hardeeville, SC & Savannah, GA
WTGS
28 (28)
2014
Fox
Comet
Antenna TV
TBD

Chattanooga, TN
WTVC[g]
9 (9)
2012
ABC
Fox
TBD

WDSI-TV[i]
61 (40)
2015
This TV
Comet

WFLI-TV[i]
53 (42)
2015
The CW
MyNetworkTV
MeTV
Charge!

Nashville, TN
WZTV
17 (15)
1994
Fox
TBD
Antenna TV

WUXP
30 (21)
2000
MyNetworkTV
GetTV
Comet

WNAB
58 (23)
[y]
The CW
Stadium
Charge!

Abilene, TX
KTXS-TV[f]
12 (12)
2017
ABC
CW+
MeTV

KTES-LD[f]
40 (40)
2017
MeTV

Amarillo, TX & Clovis, NM
KVII-TV[k]
7 (7)
2013
ABC
CW+
Comet
Stadium

KVIH-TV[k]
12 (12)

Austin, TX
KEYE-TV[h]
42 (43)
2012
CBS
Telemundo

Beaumont & Port Arthur, TX
KBTV-TV[d]
4 (40)
2012
Fox
TBD
Comet

KFDM[g]
6 (21)
2012
CBS
CW+
Charge!

El Paso, TX
Las Cruces, NM
KDBC-TV
4 (18)
2013
CBS
MyNetworkTV, TBD & Stadium
MeTV

KFOX-TV
14 (15)
2013
Fox
Comet
Charge!

Harlingen, TX & the Rio Grande Valley
KGBT-TV[k]
4 (31)
2013
CBS
Azteca America
Comet

San Angelo, TX
KTXE-LD[f]
(Satellite of KTXS)
38 (38)
2017
ABC
CW+
MeTV

San Antonio – Kerrville, TX
KMYS[d]
35 (32)
2001
The CW
Stadium

WOAI-TV[c]
4 (48)
2012
NBC
Antenna TV
Charge!

KABB[m]
29 (30)
1997
Fox
Comet
TBD

Salt Lake City, UT
KUTV[h]
2 (34)
2012
CBS
MyNetworkTV

KJZZ-TV
14 (46)
2016
Independent
Comet
TBD
Charge!

St. George, UT
KMYU[h]
12 (9)
2012
MyNetworkTV
CBS

Bristol, VA & Greeneville, TN & Johnson City, TN & Kingsport, TN
WCYB-TV[f]
5 (5)
2017
NBC
The CW
Comet

WEMT [a][f]
39 (38)
2017[z]
Fox
Movies!
Charge!
TBD

Lynchburg & Roanoke, VA
WSET-TV[b]
13 (13)
2014
ABC
Stadium
Comet
TBD

Norfolk, VA & Hampton Roads
WTVZ-TV
33 (33)
1996
MyNetworkTV
Stadium
Comet
TBD

Richmond, VA
WRLH-TV[s]
35 (26)
1998
Fox
MyNetworkTV & TBD
Comet
Charge!

Seattle & Tacoma, WA
KOMO-TV[e]
4 (38)
2013
ABC
Comet
Charge!

KUNS-TV[e]
51 (50)
2013
Univision
TBD
Stadium

Yakima, WA & Pasco & Kennewick, WA
KIMA-TV[e]
29 (33)
2013
CBS
CW+
Stadium

KEPR-TV[e]
19 (18)

KUNW-CD[e]
2 (30)
2013
Univision
Comet
TDB
Charge!

KVVK-CD[e]
15 (15)

KORX-CD[e]
16

Charleston & Huntington, WV
WCHS-TV
8 (41)
1997
ABC
Antenna TV
Charge!
TBD

WVAH-TV[s][a]
11 (19)
1994
Fox
Stadium
Comet

Green Bay, WI & the Fox Cities, WI
WLUK-TV
11 (11)
2014
Fox
Antenna TV
TBD

WCWF
14 (21)
2014
The CW
Comet
Charge!
Stadium

Madison, WI
WMSN-TV
47 (49)
2002
Fox
Comet
Charge!
TBD

Milwaukee, WI
WVTV
18 (18.1)
2000
The CW

WVTV-DT2[aa]
24 (18.2)
1995
MyNetworkTV
Comet

text: Notes:

text:
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Station is nominally owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair under local marketing agreements. However, Cunningham Broadcasting's stock is almost completely controlled by trusts in the names of members of Sinclair's founding Smith family.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Station was owned by Allbritton Communications prior to its acquisition by Sinclair in 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Station was acquired from Newport Television in 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Station is nominally owned by Deerfield Media and operated by Sinclair under local marketing agreements.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Station was owned by Fisher Communications prior to its acquisition by Sinclair in 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Station was owned by Bonten Media Group prior to its acquisition by Sinclair in 2017.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Station was owned by Freedom Communications prior to its acquisition by Sinclair in 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Station that was owned by Four Points Media Group prior to its acquisition by Sinclair in 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Station is owned by New Age Media or MPS Media and operated by Sinclair under a master service agreement.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Station was owned by Guy Gannett Communications prior to its acquisition by Sinclair in 1998.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Station was owned by Barrington Broadcasting prior to its acquisition by Sinclair in 2013.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Station is owned by a local independent or private company and operated by Sinclair under a local marketing agreement.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Station was owned by River City Broadcasting prior to its merger with Sinclair in 1997.
Jump up ^ Station is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar Media Group under a local marketing agreement.
Jump up ^ Station is owned by Corporate Media Consultants Group (itself 49% owned by Max Media) and operated by Sinclair. The station's license assets are in the process of being transferred to Cunningham Broadcasting, pending FCC approval.
^ Jump up to: a b c Station was built and signed-on by Sinclair.
^ Jump up to: a b Station is nominally owned by Howard Stirk Holdings (owned by Armstrong Williams) and operated by Sinclair under local marketing agreements.
^ Jump up to: a b Station is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Station was owned by Act III Broadcasting prior to its acquisition by Sinclair between 1994 and 1996.
Jump up ^ Station is owned by Granite Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair under a shared services agreement.
Jump up ^ Station is owned by Manhan Media and operated by Sinclair under a shared services agreement.
Jump up ^ Station's license is held by South West Oregon TV Broadcasting Corporation, which is 50% owned by Sinclair and 50% owned by California Oregon Broadcasting, Inc.
^ Jump up to: a b The station is owned by Horseshoe Curve Communications or Palm Television and operated by Sinclair under a master service agreement with Cunningham Broadcasting or Horseshoe Curve Communications.
Jump up ^ Sinclair owned WPNT from its 1978 launch (as WPTT-TV) until selling it to its operations manager, Eddie Edwards, in 1991 after acquiring WPGH-TV; Edwards would sell the station back to Sinclair in 2000.
Jump up ^ Station is owned by Tennessee Broadcasting, LP, an affiliate company of Beverly Hills-based Lambert Broadcasting, and its operations are managed by Sinclair under an outsourcing agreement. Sinclair filed an application to acquire the station outright under an FCC "failing station" waiver in July 2005 but the FCC has not acted on the application as of 2014[update]—and will likely either reject the application or continue to not act on it unless Sinclair sells off either WZTV or WUXP due to current rules prohibiting one company from directly owning more than two full-power television stations in the same market.
Jump up ^ Sinclair owned WEMT from 1998 until it was sold to Aurora Broadcasting in 2006; Sinclair reassumed control of the station in 2017 when then-owners Esteem Broadcasting sold the station to Cummingham Broadcasting.
Jump up ^ The station was formerly a separate full-power station as WCGV-TV until January 2018, when its license was turned in to the FCC after the selling of its spectrum in the 2016 auction. In order to acquire Tribune's WITI in the same market, Sinclair chose to turn in WCGV's channel 25 digital license and merge its subchannels onto WVTV's, but was able to retain the former channel number, thus it continues to virtually operate as its own station despite being a subchannel of WVTV, but WITI would be able to be acquired as the new WCGV intellectual unit is a subchannel in technicality.

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text: Radio stations

text:
AM Stations
FM Stations

text:
Market
Station
Owned Since
Current Format

Seattle-Tacoma, WA
KVI/570
2013
Conservative talk

KOMO/1000
2013
All-news

KOMO-FM/97.7[A]
2013
Simulcasts KOMO (AM)

KPLZ-FM/101.5
2013
Hot adult contemporary

text: Notes:

text: Jump up ^ KOMO-FM is owned by South Sound Broadcasting, but operated by Sinclair under a local marketing agreement.

text: Former Sinclair-owned stations

text:
City of license / Market
Station
Channel
TV (RF)
Years owned
Current ownership status

Anniston, AL
WJSU-TV
40 (9)
2014–2015[i]
Heroes & Icons affiliate, WGWW, owned by Howard Stirk Holdings

Tuscaloosa, AL
WCFT-TV
33 (33)
2014–2015[i]
Heroes & Icons affiliate, WSES, owned by Howard Stirk Holdings

Stockton - Sacramento, CA
KOVR
13 (25)
1997–2005
CBS owned-and-operated station, owned by CBS Television Stations

Colorado Springs - Pueblo, CO
KXRM-TV
21 (22)
2013–2014
Fox affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group

KXTU-LD
57 (20)
2013–2014
The CW affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group

St. Petersburg - Tampa, FL
WTTA
38 (32)
1991–2014
MyNetworkTV affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group

Tallahassee, FL - Thomasville, GA
WTXL-TV
27 (27)
2001–2006[ii]
ABC affiliate, owned by Raycom Media

Idaho Falls - Pocatello, ID
KIDK
3 (36)
2013
CBS affiliate, owned by VistaWest Media, LLC[iii]

KXPI-LD
34 (34)
2013
Fox affiliate, owned by VistaWest Media, LLC[iii]

Bloomington - Indianapolis, IN
WIIB
63 (27)
1988–1997
Ion owned-and-operated station, WIPX-TV, owned by Ion Media Networks

WTTV
4 (48)
1997–2002
CBS affiliate, owned by Tribune Broadcasting

Kokomo, IN
WTTK
(satellite of WTTV)
29 (29)
1997–2002
CBS affiliate, owned by Tribune Broadcasting

Springfield - Holyoke, MA
WGGB-TV
40 (40)
1998–2007
ABC affiliate ,owned by Meredith Corporation

New Bedford, MA - Providence, RI
WLWC
28 (22)
2012–2013
Ion Life affiliate, owned by OTA Broadcasting

Lansing, MI
WLAJ
53 (51)
2012–2013
ABC affiliate, owned by Shield Media, LLC[iv]

Marquette, MI
WLUC-TV
6 (35)
2013–2016
NBC affiliate, owned by Gray Television

Kansas City, MO
KSMO-TV
62 (47)
1996–2005
MyNetworkTV affiliate, owned by Meredith Corporation

Plattsburgh, NY - Burlington, VT
WPTZ
5 (14)
1997–1998
NBC affiliate, owned by Hearst Television

Syracuse, NY
WNYS-TV
43 (44)
[v]
MyNetworkTV affiliate, owned by Syracuse Broadcasting, Inc.[vi]

WSYT
68 (19)
1998–2013
Fox affiliate, owned by Northwest Broadcasting

Harrisburg - Lancaster - Lebanon - York, PA
WLYH-TV
15 (23)
[vii]
Grit TV affiliate, WXBU, owned by Howard Stirk Holdings

WHTM-TV
27 (10)
2014[viii]
ABC affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group

Charleston, SC
WCIV
4 (34)
2014–2015[i]
Heroes & Icons affiliate, WGWG, owned by Howard Stirk Holdings

Jacksonville - Tyler - Longview, TX
KETK-TV
56 (22)
1998–2004[ix]
NBC affiliate, owned by Nexstar Media Group

Hartford, VT - Hanover, NH
WNNE
(Semi-satellite of WPTZ)
31 (25)
1997–1998
NBC affiliate, owned by Hearst Television

text:
^ Jump up to: a b c WJSU/WCFT were satellites of WBMA-LD during their ownership by Allbritton Communications. Sinclair agreed to sell them to a third party as part of its 2014 acquisition of Allbritton's TV stations.
Jump up ^ Station was owned by third parties, and it was operated by Sinclair during these years.
^ Jump up to: a b Operated via LMA by News-Press & Gazette Company.
Jump up ^ Operated via SSA by Nexstar Media Group.
Jump up ^ Owned by RKM Media, Inc., WNYS was operated by Sinclair under a Local marketing agreement.
Jump up ^ Operated via LMA by Northwest Broadcasting.
Jump up ^ Owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Sinclair operated WLYH under a Local marketing agreement.
Jump up ^ Sinclair temporarily owned WHTM under a "hold separate agreement" while it was being sold to Media General, following the completion of the acquisition of Allbritton Communications.
Jump up ^ Non-license assets were purchased by Communications Corporation of America in 1999; license sold to ComCorp in 2004.