Sinclair and Mediacom set an eight-day interim carriage agreement, which runs through Jan. 8, as they continued to negotiate a new retransmission consent deal, B&C reports. The short deal is at Sinclair’s terms, which are higher than the current deal…
Football remained on the air as News Corp. and Time Warner Cable struck a retransmission deal Friday evening, several hours after a midnight deadline, The New York Times reports. Terms weren’t disclosed. Fox had been demanding about $1 per subscriber…
Cablevision dropped HGTV and Food Network when a deal between the two expired at midnight on New Year’s Eve, and no progress has been made resolving the dispute, Multichannel News reports. Scripps is said to be looking to receive three…
Drum roll please. Here are the top 5 viewed cable networks in primetime in 2009, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Coming in at No. 5 was Fox News. Number 4 was TNT. Three was ESPN. In second place was the…
MSNBC executives wouldn’t discuss why the network devoted little attention Friday to the attempted terror attack on a U.S.-bound airplane, the Associated Press reports. CNN and Fox News Channel both covered the story while MSNBC remained with taped programs, the…