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Retransmission Consent
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01/18/2025
Optimum, Nexstar Reach Deal
Late Friday night, Altice USA and Nexstar reached an agreement to restore the broadcaster’s stations and NewsNation to Optimum’s lineup, ensuring NFL playoff games aren’t missed.
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01/10/2025
Optimum Loses Nexstar Stations
At 5pm ET Friday, Nexstar stations were removed from Altice USA’s Optimum cable systems with the two unable to reach a new retransmission consent agreement.
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Premium Content
06/07/2024
Programmers, Distributors Duel in Comments on Video Market
The friction between distributors and programmers of all kinds is on display at the FCC as the agency gathers comments on proposals to help independent programmers continue to compete effectively for carriage on MVPDs, streaming platforms and more.
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Premium Content
03/13/2024
Effros: Just Askin’
It’s no wonder that at least one side of the negotiations for “retransmission consent” loves to time the negotiations just before an anticipated major event.
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12/01/2023
DirecTV’s Thun Argues Broadcast Model Must Change or Risk Extinction
We caught up with DirecTV Chief Content Officer Rob Thun to find out how serious the distributor is with its alternative retrans proposals and how long this blackout with TEGNA might last.
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11/30/2023
DirecTV Loses TEGNA Stations, Wants to Overturn Retrans Regime
DirecTV’s looking to change the model for broadcasters’ retransmission consent through its negotiations with TEGNA, proposing broadcasters offer stations a la carte to customers or let MVPDs negotiate directly with ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC for national network content. DirecTV lost access to 64 TEGNA stations at 8pm ET Thursday when its current retrans contract […]