Dish and Tegna Agree to Extension

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Dish Network and Tegna—formerly Gannett—said they have agreed to a 24-hour extension on their retransmission consent talks.

Their current agreement was set to expire at 7 p.m.

Wednesday night is also the deadline for a number of other retransmission consent agreements to expire, including Tribune Media with AT&T U-verse and Media General with AT&T's DirecTV.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.