Dan Satterfield is a retired TV meteorologist from Maryland. On Facebook he posted the screenshoted text ( reference: https://www.facebook.com/100044212850201/posts/1334594338024315/ ).
KOMO is Seattle’s ABC affiliate station, owned by Sinclair Broadcasting.
The following is a list of the ads and sponsors on display during KOMO’s 11pm news broadcast on Sept 19 2025:
- 1st break:
- Day & Nite Plumbing and Heating (on-screen sponsor) (local)
- Ford trucks
- Rinvoq (drug)
- Lexus
- Bowers Plumbing Remodel (local)
- Pendergast Law (local)
- Ford trucks
- 2nd break:
- “Promotional consideration furnished by…”
- Stackla
- Force 10 Hoops (local)
- Tulalip Resort Casino (local)
- Sunset Auto Family (local)
- Urban Interiors
- Amazon
- Rich’s For The Home (local)
- Kuhl
- South West Plumbing (local)
- Tulalip Resort Casino (local, bumper)
- Ram trucks
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (local, Catholic hospital)
- Ram trucks
- Kia
- Wove (jewelry)
- Endo (drug manufacturer)
- Kia
- “Promotional consideration furnished by…”
- XFinity / Comcast sponsored Sports segment
- 3rd break
- Culturelle Probiotics
- GMC trucks
- Overlake Medical Center (hospital) (local)
- XFinity / Comcast
- Honda trucks
- Culturelle Probiotics
- 4th break
- The Bellevue Collection (fashion) (local)
- Fred Meyer
- Muckleshoot Casino Resort (local)
- Papa Murphy’s Pizza
- Carpet Liquidators
- Fred Meyer
Kimmel aside, the amount of ads to content in this 1-hour block is why no one wants to watch this format anymore.
Only Baby Boomers watch local news. They vote. You can watch the news and call the advertisers, or you could just FUCKING VOTE! and when they throw out all the votes, because fascism - fire them.
Didn’t everyone just watch the opening monologue on YouTube and nothing else?
GOAT
Also, Fred Meyer is owned by Kroger if you’re not local.
In California, it’s called Ralph’s.
Dillon’s is Kroger, as is King Soopers.
I wouldn’t be surprised if every single one of those sponsors helped pay for Trumps inauguration or the owners are in some way MAGA.
Fuck with the money. It’s the only thing business is completely dependent on.
Thats the same tactic that Gamergate used (to admittedly potent effect) and is the same one the various right wing groups still use, most recently against Steam and GoG
If you are elsewhere, but want to do something similar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Nexstar_Media_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
(seems in the seattle area there is also KUNS-TV?)
Shouldn’t Amazon be labeled (local)?
> Endo (drug manufacturer)
blowin on that endo
GameCube, Nintendo
Five percent tint
So you can’t see up in my window
Spittin’ bars here
Aren’t a lot of these companies just getting ads wherever they can? And have had these contracts since before the Kimmel thing?
And?
In retrospect, I probably could have given folks some guidance on the proper messaging for these kinds of businesses. No one is going to give a shit about some random internet person’s partisan screed about where you choose to advertise. Be polite.
“My petition to this oligarchic corporation didn’t work, so surely my petitions to these oligarchic corporations will surely work!”
