Cable ISP Brings Retrans Complaint Against Nexstar
Complaining of "unilateral, take-it-or-leave-it" retransmission consent terms offered by Nexstar, east Tennessee cable ISP co-op HolstonConnect is asking the FCC to intervene. In a retransmission complaint Monday against the broadcaster, Holston said Nexstar is seeking "grossly excessive retransmission consent rates"…
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for WATE-TV Knoxville and WJHL-TV Johnson City and to tie to carriage of those broadcast signals other channels it doesn't want. It asked the FCC to order that the broadcast signals be provided by March 31 at rates reasonable for those markets and that unspecified sanctions be brought. Nexstar didn't comment Thursday.