Hawaiian Telcom has filed a complaint against Nexstar Media Inc. in which it claims that the company has blacked out a cable channel and five broadcast channels during active negotiations over an extension of their retransmission agreement. Pay-TV providers such…
The retransmission fees that video service providers pay to television broadcasters increased 19.2% between 2018 and 2019, according to ACA Connects: America’s Communications Association, which represents smaller cable and broadband providers. ACA Connects based its analysis on data recently released…
TYSONS, VA and DALLAS , TX, December 20, 2020 — TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) and AT&T (NYSE: T) have entered into a new multi-year retransmission consent agreement to provide TEGNA-owned local broadcast stations to customers of AT&T’s video platforms across…
The FCC has proposed fines exceeding $500,000 apiece for 18 television station licensees that were the focus of a complaint by AT&T involving negotiations for the retransmission fees that AT&T must pay to carry the stations’ content. The new FCC…
The FCC is getting set to take a small step toward tackling the thorny problem of retransmission consent disputes. Prior to today’s monthly FCC meeting, the Commission adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comment on the topic. Retransmission…
Content provider Sinclair Broadcast Group went on the offensive in a retransmission dispute with AT&T today, issuing a press release that attempts to portray AT&T in a bad light in its role as pay-TV provider. “Millions of AT&T U-verse, DIRECTV…
The retransmission fees that U.S. television station owners collect from cable, direct broadcast satellite and telco video providers will rise from $10.57 billion in 2018 to $11.72 this year, according to a retransmission fee forecast published in Broadcast Investor, an…
The year is only a little more than halfway over, yet 2019 television blackouts already have reached the previous annual record, according to the American Television Alliance (ATVA). The year already has seen 213 blackouts in which broadcasters block video…
The U.S. video marketplace has suffered more than 60 total retransmission blackouts during the first six months of 2019 and nearly 550 in the past three and a half years, according to a new report from the American Television Alliance…
TDS Telecom has reached what it called a “reasonable” agreement with Nexstar, ending a month-long programming blackout that resulted when the companies’ previous agreement expired before a new one could be reached. Details of the new TDS Nexstar agreement were…
TDS President and CEO Jim Butman has released a second video message explaining the company’s position in its ongoing impasse with Nexstar Media Group. The TDS Nextstar dispute has lasted for 16 days. More than 50,000 TDS video subscribers are…
Nexstar, the second largest television station owner in the U.S., wants TDS Telecom to pay up to 129% more for video content, said TDS President and CEO Jim Butman in a video released to customers about the TDS Nexstar blackout….
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