---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-005700"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBGI"
cik: "0001971213"
company_name: "Sinclair, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T02:23:01.846934+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sinclair enters debt recap with creditors; extends maturities to 2029/2030, reduces first-lien leverage

## Summary
- TSA signed with 80% of term lenders and 75% of secured noteholders; includes new $650M revolver and backstop term loans.
- $1.175B term loan B-2 to be repaid; $714M B-3 and $731M B-4 exchanged for second-out loans maturing 2029/2030.
- Exchange offer for $246M of 4.125% secured notes into 4.375% second-out notes due 2032; non-consenting notes become unsecured.
- Private repurchase of $59.3M secured notes at 84% and $104.2M unsecured at 97%; private exchange of $432M for 9.75% second lien notes due 2033.
- Closest maturity pushed to Dec 2029; weighted average maturity 6.6 years; first lien net leverage materially reduced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-005700
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBGI
- cik: 0001971213
- company_name: Sinclair, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1971213/000119312525005700/0001193125-25-005700-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912752/000119312525005700/d791660d8k.htm

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