After butting heads for months, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Mediacom Communications signed a one-year retransmission consent agreement for the carriage of Sinclair’s 22 TV stations in 15 markets. The agreement was reached following a one-week extension of the former contract that expired Dec. 31.
Terms were not disclosed. Marci Ryvicker, senior analyst with Wells Fargo Securities, estimated Sinclair was receiving north of 50 cents per subscriber.
Though the Sinclair-Mediacom retrans fight was dwarfed by the Fox-Time Warner negotiations, it was one of the most bitter.
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