Cable, Broadcast Battles End

[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John M. Higgins]
Two major TV-industry battles concluded on the same day last week. EchoStar agreed to resume delivering Lifetime Television to DBS subscribers, and station group Nexstar Broadcasting ended its bruising fight with cable operators. But cable and broadcasting executives will spend months examining fallout from the disputes, calculating how they shift the balance of power over one of the most divisive issues in the TV business: retransmission consent. The central question: Will major cable operators start writing big checks in order to retransmit the signals of local TV stations?
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