Take one look at the recent quarterly earnings statements for the nation’s biggest broadcast TV companies, and one thing is certain: retransmission fees have become a major revenue source. Is that a ...

WASHINGTON—ACA Connects is worried about the transformation of broadcast TV from something local to something more corporate, which it says is evident in the rising retransmission consent fees, which ...

Retransmission disputes between broadcasters and cable operators have become increasingly public in recent years. Late last year, one such dispute between CBS and Time Warner Cable led to a month-long ...

* 2022-2027 numbers are projections. Note: Broadcast retransmission fees include owned and operated (O&O), affiliate station, reverse retransmissions and, starting with 2015, estimated broadcast ...

Longer term, these revenues will likely grow by percentages in the low single digits, to $15.93 billion by 2027 according to S&P Global Market Intelligence When you purchase through links on our site, ...

A miracle cure for the Great Ad Depression or a substance more addictive than crack cocaine? Either way, "retrans" has the biz all abuzz -- and consumers beginning to worry. By Larry Gerbrandt, The ...

When Congress created retransmission consent in 1992, we had good reason to worry about the future of broadcast television. Cable providers had near-monopolies in the communities they served.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For years, the broadcast television industry has griped about the unfair ...

With cord-cutting continuing to accelerate -- now at around 7% per year -- one stock market analyst believes local TV station retransmission revenues of some $12 billion per year are in danger of ...