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Topic: retransmission consent

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Broadcasters, Aereo to Face Off Next Week Over Copyrights Stakes are high for preserving broadcast business model

Broadcasters will face off with pay TV upstart Aereo next week over claims that Aereo is retransmitting TV signals without permission in violation of the U.S. Copyright Act. The U.S. District…

May 23 2012

NAB's Smith Rejuvenates Broadcast Lobby Urges industry to 'use all the tools'

Gordon Smith, the former Senator from Oregon who took leadership of the National Association of Broadcasters more than two years ago, is putting the clout back in the broadcast lobby. In…

April 16 2012

Play Ball: Tribune, DirecTV Sign New Carriage Deal Pact restores games access to more than 5 million viewers

Just in time for baseball season, Tribune Broadcasting and DirecTV signed a new carriage agreement covering Tribune's 23 TV stations in 19 markets and the national cable network WGN America. The…

April 05 2012

DirecTV Files Complaint With FCC Against Tribune In Retrans Fight Tribune says they never had a 'handshake deal' with DirecTV

The retransmission consent battle between DirecTV and Tribune escalated Monday with accusations, counter-accusations and the inevitable filing with the Federal Communications Commission by DirecTV. As of midnight March 31, 23 Tribune…

April 02 2012

Tribune to DirecTV: No Retrans Deal Handshake deal between companies fails in final hours

Tribune TV stations in 19 markets such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles went dark on DirecTV at midnight March 31 when the two companies were unable to reach…

April 01 2012

Retrans Fight Brewing Between Tribune and DirecTV Current contract between companies expires March 31

Tribune, owner of 23 TV stations in 16 markets, including some of the nation's largest, is threatening to pull its signals and the WGN America cable network from DirecTV if…

March 26 2012

Aereo to Broadcasters: 'We're Entirely Legal' Service set to go live March 14

While Barry Diller was in Austin relishing a fight with broadcasters, his lawyers back in New York were busy filing a legal response to a lawsuit brought by broadcast network…

March 12 2012

Broadcasters File Suit Against Aereo Ask for permanent injunction against the online TV service

Broadcaster owners in New York filed lawsuits Thursday against Aereo, a service that delivers broadcast TV via the Internet. In two separate complaints filed in the U.S. District Court for…

March 02 2012

Retrans Rumble: Broadcasters Slam Time Warner Cable NAB takes TWC to task for retrans position

By all measures, Time Warner Cable had a terrific quarter and that was just the opening the National Association of Broadcasters needed to come out swinging against the cable operator…

January 27 2012

Super Bowl Will Air in Boston Sunbeam and DirecTV reach retrans deal

Patriots fans can relax. There will be no blackout in Boston of the Super Bowl on DirecTV. The satellite TV company said Thursday it reached a retransmission deal with Sunbeam Television,…

January 26 2012

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