Sinclair and Comcast Reach Retrans Deal in Principle

Sinclair Broadcast Group and Comcast have reached what the former is calling "an agreement-in-principle" for the continued carriage of Sinclair's 36 stations in 22 markets. 

It is a multi-year deal. Terms of the agreement were not divulged. 

Sinclair has been busy inking retransmission consent pacts of late, closing on deals with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in the last five weeks. 

Earlier this year, Sinclair ironed out affiliation agreements with the Fox network that covered retrans as well.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.