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03/03/2026
Broadcast Top of Mind in D.C.
Speaking at an investor conference Tuesday, Sinclair CFO Narinder Sahai reiterated the broadcaster’s view that the sector is heading toward two large ownership supergroups alongside a handful of smaller players.
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12/17/2025
More Retrans Drama with Optimum, Tegna at Odds
The tensions are rising between Optimum and Tegna, with the operator taking things public after rejecting what it calls “excessive and unjustified demands” pertaining to retransmission negotiations.
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09/12/2023
Video, Retrans To Take Center Stage On the Hill
With Nexstar stations still dark on DirecTV, DISH losing Hearst stations on Friday and Charter and Disney just inking a deal after a 10-day blackout, it’s great timing for tomorrow’s House Communications subcommittee hearing on the State of the Video Marketplace.
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08/14/2023
Nexstar Defends Itself Against Hawaiian Telcom Complaint
Nexstar has told the FCC it did nothing out of the ordinary in its negotiations with Hawaiian Telcom over retransmission consent and the agency should dismiss the provider’s complaint against it.
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07/18/2023
DirecTV Streamers Can’t Watch CW on Sinclair Stations
With broadcasters leaning on the FCC to update retransmission consent rules to apply them to vMVPDs, DirecTV is making its case for it why it should not, using Nexstar as the posterchild.
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06/30/2023
Sidecar Sideshow: Nexstar, DirecTV Prepare for a Showdown
While Nexstar began warning late Thursday that DirecTV customers could soon lose its more than 200 stations, the writing has been on the wall since October that negotiations between the two were likely going