Latest in Carriage Deal

ViacomCBS has set an expanded distribution deal with Disney’s Hulu + Live TV, which is now the fifth-largest U.S. pay-TV provider. Financial terms of the multi-year agreement were not disclosed. It continues carriage for CBS broadcast stations, CBS Sports Network, Pop TV, Smithsonian Channel, and the CW, as well as…

Dish Network and Nexstar Media Group, the No. 1 U.S. owner of local TV stations, have resolved a carriage dispute that took 164 Nexstar stations and cable network WGN America off the air for more than three weeks. The deal was announced just after 1AM ET on Friday, Christmas Day. In a press release, Nexstar said, “We…

Fox Corp.’s broadcast subsidiary and No. 2 station group Sinclair have reached a multi-year renewal covering Fox affiliates in 25 markets. The stations reach about 11% of U.S. TV households. "We are pleased that we have reached agreements with Fox to continue our long-standing relationship. These renewals reflect the…

Nexstar Media Group, the owner of the largest local station portfolio in the U.S. as well as cable channel WGN America has announced a carriage deal with Hulu. The multi-year agreement, which takes effect January 19, will restore more than 20 Nexstar-owned ABC affiliates to Hulu + Live TV, the Disney-owned streaming…

Nexstar Media Group said its widely distributed cable network WGN America has reached its first carriage agreement with internet-delivered bundle FuboTV. The multi-year deal comes as Nexstar, the No. 1 owner of local TV stations in the U.S., remains in a carriage dispute with Dish Network that boiled over last week…

Nexstar Media Group said it has reached a carriage deal with YouTube TV for cable network WGN America. The multi-year WGN America deal with YouTube will take effect on January 19. The addition of 3 million YouTube customers extends the network’s total reach to 75 million pay-TV households, Nexstar said. The deal was…

Roku and NBCUniversal have reached a milestone deal that will see Peacock, NBCU’s new streaming service, get distributed on Roku’s potent streaming platform in the coming weeks. The two companies had battled over the past 24 hours in an escalation of tensions that had continued dutring months of fruitless, on-and-off…

Just in time for Friday’s Chicago Cubs season opener, Comcast and Sinclair Broadcast Group have renewed their carriage agreement, which includes the Cubs’ new TV home, Marquee Sports Network. The multi-year deal covers retransmission consent of 78 Sinclair TV stations in 51 markets across Comcast's cable footprint. It…

YouTube and ViacomCBS have revealed an expanded, multi-year distribution deal that will add 14 new networks to the tech giant’s YouTube TV service. The agreement will keep CBS broadcast stations, CBS Sports Network, Pop TV, Smithsonian Channel and The CW on the bundle and also add BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV…

EXCLUSIVE: Pluto TV and Verizon are breaking some new ground in streaming, unveiling what they call the industry’s first comprehensive distribution deal spanning pay-TV, connected TV and mobile, Deadline has learned. Both parties remained tight-lipped about financial terms. Pluto, the free, ad-supported service owned…

ViacomCBS has reached an agreement with Verizon FiOS in the first carriage deal spanning its full portfolio of networks since the merger of Viacom and CBS closed last December. Multiple people familiar with the deal confirmed it has been sealed despite the difficult operating environment. Sports programming, which has…

ViacomCBS and Comcast have set a wide-ranging carriage renewal that includes conventional elements like retransmission but also breaks new ground by bringing streaming service CBS All Access to Comcast set-top boxes. The companies said Wednesday the deal will extend retransmission consent of 23 CBS-owned television…