Exhibit 99.1
NEWS RELEASE

Contact:  David Amy, EVP & CFO
          Lucy Rutishauser, Treasurer
          (410) 568-1500


         SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP ANNOUNCES PRIVATE SECURITIES OFFERING


BALTIMORE (November 28, 2001) -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBGI)
announced today a proposed $310 million private offering of Senior Subordinated
Notes (the "Notes"). The Notes will have a maturity of 2011 and will be offered
only to "qualified institutional buyers" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended) and/or to non-U.S. persons pursuant to
Regulation S under the 1933 Act.

Sinclair intends to use the net proceeds of the proposed private offering to
redeem its existing 10% Senior Subordinated Notes due September 30, 2005 (CUSIP
829226AB5) and to pay the associated call premium on the Notes.

The Notes proposed to be offered by Sinclair have not been and will not be
registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities
or blue sky laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States or in any
state thereof absent registration or an applicable exemption from the
registration requirements of such laws. This press release shall not constitute
an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the proposed Notes.