By the end of this week, the latest retransmission consent fee impasse to impact a wide swath of the television consumer audience could rear its ugly head.
Should that come to pass, some 26 FOX Networks Group MVPD-distributed and broadcast channels will go dark. As such, the company’s over-the-air FOX stations are at risk of being blocked — by law — from paying subscribers of a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service provider that’s played a role in many other “blackouts” in recent years.
