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                             June 9, 2020

       Christopher S. Ripley
       President and Chief Executive Officer
       Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
       10706 Beaver Dam Road
       Hunt Valley, MD 21030

                                                        Re: Sinclair Broadcast
Group, Inc.
                                                            Form 10-K for the
Year Ended December 31, 2019
                                                            Form 10-Q for the
Quarter Ended March 31, 2020
                                                            Form 8-K filed May
6, 2020
                                                            File No. 000-26076

       Dear Mr. Ripley:

              We have limited our review of your filing to the financial
statements and related
       disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we
may ask you to
       provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
       information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
       comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.

                                                        After reviewing your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.

       Form 10-Q for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2020

       Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations
       Liquidity and Capital Resources, page 51

   1.                                                   In your Form 8-K filed
May 6, 2020, you make references to Adjusted EBITDA and
                                                        indicate that the
non-GAAP measure is used in computing the Company's ability to
                                                        borrow under your Bank
Credit Agreement. If the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA is a
                                                        material term of your
Bank Credit Agreement and information about that covenant is
                                                        material to an
investor's understanding of your financial condition or liquidity, please
                                                        revise your MD&A in
future filings to disclose measures calculated pursuant to the
                                                        covenant. Please refer
to Question 102.09 of the Non-GAAP Financial Measures
                                                        Compliance &
Disclosures Interpretations
                                                        at
https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/guidance/nongaapinterp.htm.
 Christopher S. Ripley
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
June 9, 2020
Page 2



Form 8-K filed May 6, 2020

Exhibt 99.1
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measurements - Unaudited, page 12

2.       Your calculation of EBITDA contains adjustments for items other than
interest, taxes,
         depreciation and amortization. In future filings please revise the
title of this non-GAAP
         measure to distinguish it from EBITDA as commonly defined.
Furthermore, although you
         consider EBITDA to be an measure of operating performance, your
calculations of
         EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA exclude charges or liabilities that require
cash
         settlement. If you consider these measures to be both liquidity and
operating performance
         measures, please revise to disclose that fact and also reconcile your
non-GAAP liquidity
         measures to the most directly comparable GAAP liquidity measures.
Refer to
         Question 103.01 of the Non-GAAP Financial Measures Compliance &
Disclosures
         Interpretations.
       In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are
responsible for the
accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review,
comments, action or
absence of action by the staff.

        You may contact Lisa Etheredge, Senior Staff Accountant, at (202)
551-3424 or Robert
S. Littlepage, Accounting Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3361 with any questions.



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