There are more than 100 freelancers who work for Fox Sports Detroit, and right now, they have "no source of income, or any information coming from the corporate office," according to Evan Petzold of the DETROIT FREE PRESS. Sinclair "released all of its freelancers on March 12 and has yet to provide details on if they will ever be paid for games they had been scheduled to work." Other companies are "paying freelancers for previously planned events." CBS Sports said that it "would compensate all freelancers who had been scheduled to work the NCAA men's basketball tournament and four PGA Tour events, all of them canceled." Turner Sports is "providing the same relief for freelancers who planned to work March Madness." Representatives from Sinclair Broadcast Group have "yet to respond to an interview request." Fox Sports EVS Operator Michael Abdella said, “Information is not being conveyed from the corporate level to our bosses in order for them to provide it to us. We are all extremely disappointed.” Petzold noted FSD freelancers "did not receive unemployment information from Sinclair until March 19, two days after Fox Sports reached out to them via email to offer temporary employment at Meijer as overnight grocery clerks" (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 3/22).
