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| Birth | 1921 | |
| Death | 19 April 1993 (aged 72 years) |
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Julian Sinclair Smith (1921 - April 19, 1993) was an American electrical engineer and television executive who founded Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1971 as a single local television station; namely, Baltimore, Maryland's WBFF-TV. In 1986, he and his family incorporated Sinclair Broadcast Group. As of December 2016, his four sons are the majority shareholders of Sinclair Broadcast Group. His son David D. Smith became CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1988.
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Smith was born in 1921 in Baltimore, the son of a grain exporter. He received his electrical engineering degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1952. He died in 1993, at the age of 72, after suffering Parkinson's disease.