DirecTV customers in nine Upper Midwest markets lost access to one or more of their local network affiliates on Independence Day due to a retransmission consent dispute between the satellite provider and Nexstar Media Group.
Category: Retransmission Consent
Cedar Rapids FOX Affiliate Off DirecTV
A retransmission consent dispute has taken FOX 28 (KFXA Cedar Rapids) off DirecTV. KFXA is licensed to Second Generation of Iowa but operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which bought KFXA’s non-license assets…
Sioux Falls FOX Affiliate Returns to Mediacom after 2-Year Dispute
Less than a week after returning to DirecTV, Sioux Falls FOX affiliate KTTW/7 is also back on Mediacom after resolving a long-running retransmission consent dispute. TVNewsCheck reported that KTTW had been off Mediacom…
Mankato Station Returns to DirecTV
KEYC (Mankato) has returned to DirecTV after a retransmission consent dispute took KEYC’s CBS and FOX channels off the provider for nearly two weeks. The channels returned on the afternoon of Sunday,…
Milwaukee FOX Affiliate Returns to Spectrum Cable
Milwaukee’s FOX 6 (WITI) is back on Spectrum Cable after a national dispute between Spectrum and Tribune Broadcasting was resolved. The outage began on the afternoon of Jan. 2 and ended in early morning…