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Category: Retransmission Consent

Update: Hearst Stations Return to DirecTV

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Jon Ellis

Hearst Television stations have returned to DirecTV after a retransmission consent outage that lasted less than two days.

FOX 9 Returns to DISH Hours Before Vikings Game

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Jon Ellis

FOX owned-and-operated station KMSP/9 (Minneapolis) has returned to DISH Network after a ten-day outage.

Nexstar Stations Back on DirecTV in Time for NFL

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Jon Ellis

A week before the start of the NFL season, Nexstar and DirecTV have resolved a blackout that affected 97 markets nationally for nearly two months.

WCCO Returns to DirecTV

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Jon Ellis

WCCO-TV/4 (Minneapolis) is back on DirecTV after a nearly three-week outage caused by a retransmission consent dispute between CBS and the satellite provider.

Nexstar Stations Off DirecTV

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Jon Ellis

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.

Cedar Rapids FOX Affiliate Off DirecTV

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Jon Ellis

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

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Jon Ellis

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

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Jon Ellis

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

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Jon Ellis

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…

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