NAB Skewers Cable, Satellite TV Providers Over Subscriber Exit Fees
The National Association of Broadcasters sees a link between exit fees required of pay-TV customers and carriage disputes that pit TV …
The National Association of Broadcasters sees a link between exit fees required of pay-TV customers and carriage disputes that pit TV …
Charter CEO Chris Winfrey said the company’s recent Disney carriage fight cost the company 320,000 video customers in the third quarter, but …
The Hollywood strike negotiations and the carriage dispute issues currently roiling the media industry are clearly intertwined. How the …
More than 10 million DirecTV customers are without Nexstar stations as of Sunday evening after the two companies failed to come to terms on …
Paducah Television, based in Providence, R.I., operates stations, in Lincoln, Neb.; Cape Girardeau, Mo.; and Providence, and doing business …
Nexstar Media Group stations went dark in homes subscribing Verizon Fios at midnight on Friday as the two companies’ retransmission …
The end of September brought in the expiration of another carriage deal with no agreement in place to renew it. At midnight on Sept. 30, …
Dish Network tonight could lose 12 stations in seven markets due to a carriage dispute with their owner, Morgan Murphy Media.
After negotiations failed to reach fruition on Friday, Disney networks, including ESPN, have gone dark on YouTube TV. Disney had indicated …
Dish Network says that AT&T SportsNet and Root Sports Regional Sports Networks were removed from Dish TV Thursday in Denver, Pittsburgh …
More than 140 Sinclair-owned stations are set to go dark today because of a carriage dispute between Sinclair and Dish Network. The latest …
The Yankees RSN went dark on Sept. 1. Frontier is also at a carriage impasse with Fox Sports RSNs.
NBCUniversal’s Telemundo station and cable networks have been blacked out to Liberty Cablevision's Puerto Rico subscribers in a carriage fee …
Potential Viacom channels being dropped from DirecTV could have a major multibillion-dollar effect on the network group in terms of …
Viacom is blasting telco giant AT&T on several fronts as the companies wrestle over a carriage renewal deal that is vital to Viacom’s …
Univision on Tuesday said that Dish Network has decided not to renew its carriage agreement for Univision Deportes Network, broadending the …
Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen, long known for his free-spoken, sharp-elbowed management style, described the company’s carriage …
AT&T Inc’s WarnerMedia has accused the U.S. Department of Justice of “collaborating” with Dish Network in a high profile dispute over …
HBO has gone dark on the Dish Network amid a standoff over carriage agreements, the first time it has been off air on one of its major …
Sling TV has stopped offering its Broadcast Extra add-on amid a program licensing dispute with Univision. “We are not currently offering our …
Univision says that it offered Dish Network a short-term extension before its distribution agreement expired on Saturday, but that Dish …
The largest Spanish-language network, already buffeted by declining ratings, on Monday suffered through its third day of being blacked out …
Another carriage dispute looms. Univision Communications’ lifestyle channels have been dark on Dish Network since around 7 p.m. ET …
Altice USA has fired back at Starz over the cable network’s FCC request for emergency injunctive relief in the carriage standoff that …
As the Starz-Altice USA carriage dispute drags on, the Lionsgate-owned network has filed two separate petitions with the FCC that aim to …
While Starz remains dark on Altice USA’s Optimum cable systems, the premium cable network has reached a new multi-year carriage deal …
Last-minute negotiations over carriage rights for Starz and Encore on the Altice USA cable systems failed, resulting in the channels going …
Univision is ratcheting up its criticism of Verizon for deciding to “withhold Univision news, information and services from their …
Spectrum cable TV subscribers won't have to give up their MTV anytime soon, as Charter Communications and Viacom have seemingly avoided a …
In a surprise move, Univision was dropped from Verizon FiOS Monday at about 5 p.m. ET, where most of the 5 million or so affected customers …
Viacom and Charter Communications have agreed to a “short-term” extension of their carriage negotiations and will continue …
Viacom Inc., parent of networks including MTV and Nickelodeon, launched TV ads this week urging its viewers to call customer service at …
Fox Networks on Tuesday evening again extended a deadline in a programming dispute with Charter Communications, but as of yet hasn't pulled …
Fox is threatening to pull its cable networks, and regional sports channels, from all Charter-owned cable systems if the cable operator does …
Fox Networks Group has become the latest to challenge the nation’s No. 2 cable company over its carriage fees. The division that …
NFL Network and NFL RedZone have been dropped from Dish’s lineup. The contact between the NFL and the satellite television provider …
Viacom’s 18 channels remained intact on Dish early Thursday even as the midnight ET deadline for the sides to reach a new carriage …
Dish CEO Charlie Ergen said his company was prepared to drop Viacom channels permanently if the satellite provider can’t reach a deal …
Negotiations between Viacom and Dish Networks are going down to the wire. Without a new agreement by Wednesday night, nearly 14 million …
Over the last few months, disputes between programmers and distributors have moved to a new level of conflict with allegations that …
With the Yankees in spring training and its carriage impasse with Comcast into its fourth month, regional sports channel YES Network has …
A consortium of small cable companies that represents about four million homes is refusing to pay a demand for what they claim is a tripling …
The current deal between Dish and 21st Century Fox expired on Saturday at midnight, so now Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network are not …