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It was certainly a week to remember for Nexstar. The company, along with Mission Broadcasting, received a Notice of Apparent Liability from the FCC alleging the two willfully and repeatedly violated multiple FCC rules, including the national audience cap, via their WPIX transactions. This came a day after a federal court granted Nexstar’s motion to dismiss DirecTV’s antitrust claims tied to retransmission consent negotiations.

FCC Finds Apparent Ownership Violations by Nexstar, Mission
The FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability finding that Nexstar and Mission Broadcasting apparently willfully and repeatedly violated Commission rules, including its 39% national audience cap, through their WPIX transactions. Read More »
 
 
Court Dismisses DirecTV Nexstar Antitrust Case
A federal court granted Nexstar’s motion to dismiss DirecTV’s antitrust claims for lack of antitrust standing. Read More »
 
 
TDS, Shentel Not Jumping for BEAD Funding
It was three weeks ago that Shentel announced it would be selling its tower portfolio for $310 million, and EVP/COO Ed McKay believes it was perhaps the perfect time to strike a lucrative deal that will make Read More »
 
 
Effros: Billion Dollar Bets
Don’t worry about things like teraflop and petaflop speeds, or claims of thirty times increase in inference ability (that’s what AI does). Just know that the folks competing with each other for the “next new thing” are taking billion dollar bets. Read More »
 
 
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