Are The Broadcast Networks Killing Their Affiliates?
Programming fees have become so onerous as to threaten the future viability of affiliates. Networks need to remember: If stations go under, …
Programming fees have become so onerous as to threaten the future viability of affiliates. Networks need to remember: If stations go under, …
Charter pays Paramount to carry its channels, including CBS and Nickelodeon. The outcome of the negotiations could weigh on Paramount’s …
The current carriage agreement between Paramount and Charter, the nation’s second largest cable operator behind Comcast, was set to expire …
Cox Media Group and Dish have ended a dispute over retransmission fees that lasted nearly a year and a half with “a new multi-year agreement …
DirecTV has confirmed that it will appeal a federal judge in New York’s decision to throw out its antitrust lawsuit against Nexstar Media …
TV stations should not be permitted under federal rules to put off until the final moments their decision to enter serious carriage …
The Big Four affiliates want federal regulators to drop plans of keeping a record of signal blackouts that result from contract disputes …
Collecting data when retransmission consent disputes lead to signal blackouts on cable and satellite TV systems is only a half measure, …
Requiring TV stations to reach carriage deals with cable operators to avoid signal blackouts is barred by long-standing federal law and …
Charter’s Spectrum cable and streaming platforms will continue carriage of The Weather Channel, TheGrio, JusticeCentral.TV, Pets.TV, …
Local television broadcaster Tegna will continue to seek higher fees from cable and satellite companies in exchange for the privilege of …
Federal regulators want pay-TV consumers to receive rebates when channels go dark as a result of contract disputes between pay-TV operators …
Nexstar Media Group is pushing back against federal regulators’ decision to fine the broadcaster $720,000 for violating good-faith …
Last month, the FCC fined Nexstar $720,000 for violating retransmission consent rules in some respects, but the agency’s Media Bureau did …
It says it has completed new agreements more than 70% of its total subscriber footprint among cable, satellite and telco multichannel video …
A federal rule that would require cable and satellite TV providers to report blackouts involving TV stations would violate the law, …
The stations went dark on Feb. 3 as a result of a standoff between Cox and DirecTV. The impasse included 12 stations in nine metro areas.
Nexstar Media Group has been fined $720,000 — double the normal amount — for violating FCC rules while negotiating a new carriage deal last …
DirecTV, locked in a new contract dispute with Cox Media Group since Feb. 2, is offering assistance to subscribers who have lost access to …
Cox Media Group said its television stations are no longer available to DirecTV subscribers because of a retransmission consent dispute. The …
After locking horns before agreeing to their last broadcast retransmission deal two years ago, DirecTV and Cox Media Group appear ready to …
Mission Broadcasting and Dish Network said the reached a new multi-year distribution agreement, ending a year-long blackout that affected 27 …
TelevisaUnivision and Charter Communications said they reached a new multiyear distribution agreement that includes a version of the …
The National Content & Technology Cooperative said it represents about 700 cable and broadband operators. NCTC members can use terms …
The FCC’s Democratic majority wants cable and satellite TV consumers to receive rebates when TV stations go dark on their TVs. The plan, …
Ted Hearn: On Friday, Comcast won a TV station carriage dispute at the FCC. In siding with Comcast, FCC Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer …
The new multiyear agreement covers the station group’s 64 owned stations in 51 markets and ends the blackout that began Nov. 30, 2023.
WPIX New York owner Mission Broadcasting is being fined $150,000 by the FCC over a contract dispute with cable giant Comcast that caused the …
CNZ Communications, owner of WGBP Opelika, Ala., claims that under FCC precedent, Dish needs to carry the station throughout the entire …
The agreement covers 89 Nexstar-owned stations across the U.S. and its NewsNation national cable news network.
Some DirecTV customers were able to watch a national programming feed of NBC in areas where the local affiliate has been unavailable for …
An organization supported by traditional pay TV providers is pushing back on the idea that local TV station mergers won’t lead to higher …
DirecTV is looking to establish a new regime for the distribution of TV stations, one it says would arrest the tide of TV station-caused …
For starters, Tegna and DirecTV had a carriage dispute in 2020that led to a 19-day channel blackout before the two sides finally reached a …
Tegna is back on the rocks with DirecTV, signaling to viewers Saturday that its stations could soon be pulled off the programming grids of …
Big TV station groups continue to see the greatest downside with affiliate revenue as a result of more pay TV cord-cutting, a Wells Fargo …
The contract covers Nexstar’s television stations, NewsNation cable network and diginets Antenna TV and Rewind TV.
Comcast and Imagicomm reached a retransmission consent agreement Tuesday, ending a month-long blackout. The deal restores WHBQ Memphis and …
Local stations need to question their assumptions about traditional revenue sources and set aside ample time for short- and long-range …
Maybe the sky isn’t falling on broadcast. Gray Television on Tuesday became the latest large station owner to stand up and tell Wall Street …
Bryce Harlow, a lobbyist and spokesperson for the brand-new Preserve Viewer Choice Coalition, explains why the broadcast networks and vMVPDs …
Tanya Vea, president-COO of Bonneville International and a spokesperson for the new Coalition for Local News, explains why the group is …
Several of the country's biggest entertainment and streaming companies are teaming up to fight hundreds of local broadcasters over a …
The multi-year distribution agreement covers Nexstar’s KHON and KHII Honolulu, NewsNation and digital subchannel Rewind TV
The pay TV company said Nexstar, which owns CW, had content from the network removed from Sinclair-owned affiliate streaming feeds in 21 …
Cable operator Hawaiian Telcom has lobbed fresh accusations against broadcaster Nexstar Media Group over its ongoing carriage dispute …
Tell you one thing — DirecTV and Nexstar have beef. And plenty of it. But some of that discord got closer to resolution over the weekend, …