This is such an important matter that I’m not going to post anything else today (though my teammates will). It requires your attention and I hope, immediate action. We need thousands of participants to make this work, so please get the word out and make these calls!

In addition to my Saturday call for a boycott of Sinclair, several other voices have an abundance of ideas.

sinclairwatch has been fighting for many months to get folks to file against local station license renewals.

Steve Soto describes the efforts of some to launch pickets and FCC complaints, and makes a greater argument for license challenges.

Apparently, Chris Bowers beat my boycott call by 3 hours. And his commenters left some added ideas, with addresses and phone numbers that I didn’t include.

Atrios mirrored Steve Soto’s call yesterday afternoon.

Josh Marshall picked up the story early Saturday, about when our Echidne mentioned it here. Like others, he discovered the background of the moviemaker, with more yesterday.

He then discovered the chair of the FCC had already sent a memo to Sinclair executives, specifically mentioning license renewal.

By late afternoon, he’d dug up more and summarized it succinctly as election fraud.

By late last night, a reader described how Sinclair shareholders could fight this and an insider wrote, indicating Steve Soto’s plan would be inefficient and the way to pursue it was to go after Sinclair’s advertisers. This is similar to what I’d suggested, though I suggested the 9-10 pm primetime ads. The insider says their big cash comes in on the 5pm-6 pm newscast, making it the better target. Josh wisely notes it’d be best to go after them with ALL of these suggestions.

Finally Josh came through with a database of ALL Sinclair advertisers early this morning, complete with phone numbers, addresses and a few email addresses.

So where to begin?

There’s roughly 80 advertisers there, so if your last name begins with:

A, B, or C : contact 7up through Circuit City (10 in all)

D, E, or F: contact Consolidated Credit Counseling through ESL Federal Credit Union

G, H, or I: contact Fazoli’s through ITT Tech

J, K, or L: contact iwireless through LoChiatto’s Restaurant

M, N, or O: contact Long John Silvers through Pattie’s Panties

P, Q, R, or S: contact PepsiCo through Select Comfort Corp

T, U, or V: contact Skogman Realty through Time Domain Inc (Sinclair owns this one)

W, X, Y, or Z: contact Time Warner RoadRunner of Rochester through Whataburger

Tell them why you’re complaining about Sinclair and that you’ve selected several advertisers to begin a multi-city boycott coordinated on the internet, and that their business is going to be included…. for a 3 to 6 month boycott.

Next, as my initial post noted, Sinclair has several direct subsidiaries. A principal one is MileOne Automotive which also appears on its advertisers list. EVERYONE IN MD or PA should contact this one and target it as the principal target in your state. MD readers & bloggers should review the other subsidiaries in the top link and boycott all the auto dealers and auto rental stores mentioned there, as well. All in this group should be prime targets for picketing, as well as the boycott.

EVERYONE should also write the FCC to complain and challenge license renewals, especially those in the states Steve Soto mentions.

Shareholders in Sinclair should contact any of these bloggers, as should any public interest lawyers interested in this matter, and we’ll try to link you together.

Let’s pull it together and fight this fast as Oct 21 is very near.