Sinclair, Bright House Ink Retrans Pact

Sinclair Broadcast Group and Bright House Networks have agreed on a multi-year agreement for the carriage of six Sinclair owned or operated stations in four markets. The stations covered under the pact are: WTTA Tampa, WEAR-WFGX Mobile-Pensacola, WTWC Tallahassee and WABM-WTTO Birmingham, Ala.

Terms of the deal were not shared.

The granting of retransmission rights to Bright House had previously been covered by a carriage agreement with Time Warner Cable (TWC).

Sinclair and TWC have reached an agreement in principle, according to Sinclair, but have not yet "fully documented the terms."

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.