NBC 25’s owner fined by FCC

[sinklair]

The FCC fined NBC 25/conservative commentator Armstrong Williams $100k for failing to negotiate retrans agreements with AT&T/DirecTV in good faith, resulting in the loss of programming to area viewers for 5 months.

https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/ ... ertainment

Pure greed on AW’s part. In the end, the viewers suffer with higher rates.

[Realist]

Yet this SOB put out videos claiming to be the victim here in the fight with DirecTV. Meanwhile, NBC viewers in the Flint and Tri City market got shafted for 5 months.

Unfortunately 100K is probably pocket change to him

[Bdl]

Pure greed on AW’s part

And you know this how ??

AT&T/DirecTV in good faith

And AT&T has clean hands ??

I can't think of any other company that can gouge the consumer like ATT can.

[sinklair]

R: what would you call it? Putting profits at the expense of viewers — seems greedy to me.

Never said AT&T had clean hands. Just reporting the findings from the Republican controlled FCC against Williams, a conservative commentator.

Personally, I think all these media conglomerates need to be broken up. They are all too large.

[audiophile]

I think Spectrum changes $5/mo just for retrans-fee to customers.

I don't think you can opt out either, unlike sat providers.

You know what OTA TV is just fine.

[sinklair]

R: I’m not following your logic. “Swamp media, extremely left, liberal”... who are you referring to? Sinclair Broadcasting run by the Smith family with their must-run right leaning “news” stories... or GOP pundit turned local broadcasting owner Armstrong Williams. I know it goes against your talking points, but 25-66 is about as much as a right wing FOX News local alternative as they come.

I don’t say that’s a good thing since local media should be independent from political bias. However, that’s not the Sinclair way.