EXHIBIT 3.23
                            ARTICLE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                          SINCLAIR COMMUNICATIONS, INC.


     FIRST:  I,  Clinton R. Black,  IV,  whose post office  address is 100 Light
Street, Suite 1100,  Baltimore,  Maryland 21202, being at least 18 years of age,
hereby form a  corporation  under and by virtue of the general laws of the State
of Maryland.

     SECOND:  The name of the corporation (which is hereafter referred to as the
"Corporation") is:

                          SINCLAIR COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

     THIRD:  The purpose for which the Corporation is formed is to engage in any
lawful business and to do anything permitted by the Maryland General Corporation
Law.

     FOURTH:  The post office address of the principal office of the Corporation
in this State is 2000 W. 41st Street,  Baltimore,  Maryland 21211.  The name and
post office  address of the Resident  Agent of the  Corporation in this State is
Steven A. Thomas,  Esquire,  100 Light Street, Suite 1100,  Baltimore,  Maryland
21202. Said resident agent is an individual actually residing in this state.

     FIFTH:  The total number of shares of capital  stock which the  Corporation
has  authority  to issue is 1,000  shares of common  stock,  par value  $.01 per
share, for an aggregate par value of ten dollars  ($10.00),  all of one class of
stock.

     SIXTH:  The number of Directors of the  Corporation  shall be not less than
three (3) nor more than twelve (12). The number of Directors may be increased or
decreased pursuant to the By-laws of the Corporation,  subject,  however, to the
above provision.

     The name of the directors  who shall act until the first annual  meeting or
until their  successor or successors are duly elected and qualified are David D.
Smith,  Frederick G. Smith, J. Duncan Smith,  Robert E. Smith,  Basil A. Thomas,
Lawrence McCanna, and William Brock.

     SEVENTH:  No director or officer of the Corporation  shall be liable to the
Corporation or its  stockholders for money damages except (i) to the extent that
it is proved that such director or officer actually received an improper benefit
or profit in money,  property,  or  services  for the  amount of the  benefit or
profit in money,  property, or services actually received, or (ii) to the extent
that a judgment or other final adjudication  adverse to such director or officer
is  entered  in a  proceeding  based on a finding  in the  proceeding  that such
director's or officer's  action, or failure to act, was (a) the result of active
and deliberate dishonesty, or (b) that intentionally







wrongful,  willful, or malicious end, in each case, was material to the cause of
action adjudicated in the proceeding.

     IN WITNESS  WHEREOF,  I have signed these Articles of Incorporation on this
8th day of April 1996, and I acknowledge the same to be my act.



                                                      /s/ Clinton R. Black, IV
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                                                           Clinton R. Black, IV

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