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unusual facts about Retransmission consent


Retransmission

Retransmission consent, permission for a cable or satellite company to carry a TV station


Television channel

Local programming TV stations in an area can sign-up or even be required to be carried on cable, but content providers like TLC cannot.

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The move came after Nexstar was stripped of its Fox affiliations for WTVW in Evansville, WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne and KSFX-TV in Springfield, Missouri following a dispute between Nexstar and Fox during affiliation renewal negotiations over the amount of local stations' retransmission consent fees that Fox demanded the stations share with the network.


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