Stations Reaping Increased Retransmission Revenues

BIA/Kelsey reports that television stations are seeing increased revenues from retransmission consent agreements, the negotiated fees arranged with local cable and satellite delivery systems to carry their stations. In 2012 BIA/Kelsey estimates that these amounts contributed an average 6.5% of total television station revenues. It adds: “An increasingly significant stream of income, this source is expected to grow to 9.5 percent by 2017 as contracts expire and are renegotiated.”