(From Nexstar Media Group)Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST) ("Nexstar"), today announced that it has reached a comprehensive multi-year distribution agreement with DISH Network.
(Nexstar Media owns KSNF-TV in Joplin.)
The agreement means that more than 5 million DISH subscribers will again have access to the highly-rated network and local entertainment, sports, and news programming provided by Nexstar television stations and by WGN America, home of the country’s only live prime-time national newscast, NewsNation.
During the last three months, Nexstar successfully completed more than 250 distribution agreements with its satellite, cable, telco, and streaming partners.
The agreement restores Nexstar’s 164 local television stations across the country and Nexstar’s wholly-owned cable network, WGN America, to DISH Network’s programming line-up.
(DISH Network has still not reached an agreement with Mission Broadcasting and is not carrying KODE in Joplin.)
WGN America will also launch on DISH’s streaming service, Sling TV, in early 2021. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
During the last three months, Nexstar successfully completed more than 250 distribution agreements with its satellite, cable, telco, and streaming partners.
Combined with similar agreements reached with other providers in 2019, Nexstar now has long-term visibility regarding future retransmission and carriage fees covering 90% of the company’s footprint through 2022.
Nexstar’s local television stations and WGN America had been off DISH Network’s satellite system since Dec. 2. We regret the inconvenience experienced by our viewers and look forward to again providing them with leading network and local programming.
Nexstar’s local television stations and WGN America had been off DISH Network’s satellite system since Dec. 2. We regret the inconvenience experienced by our viewers and look forward to again providing them with leading network and local programming.
1 comment:
It seems some group spent billions to buy all these stations and then hold viewers hostage to make bunches of money off of our inability to see via Dish. Personally it sucks that city people get it free and we have to pay Dish to get it, but it is convenient and Dish tied up lots of money in their hardware to bring it to rural America. My thought is stop buying from advertisers on the channels owned by Nexstar and maybe they will think twice about forcing Dish into a corner.
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