Latest in Carriage Deal

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…

UPDATED with stock movement, Wall Street reaction. Resolving a closely tracked negotiation, Comcast and Starz said Monday they have entered into a long-term carriage deal, more than a week before the December 31 expiration date for the previous contract. Along with the pay-TV agreement, a content deal was also…

Fox and Charter Communications, the No. 2 U.S. cable operator, have agreed to a multi-year distribution arrangement. The carriage deal covers Fox local stations, Fox News, Fox Business, FS1 and other networks. It includes VOD and TV Everywhere rights, enabling Charter customers to watch Fox programming through various…

MGM-owned Epix has reached an expanded carriage deal with Comcast that will extend the premium network’s reach by adding it to the provider’s premium channel package. The new pact takes effect December 10. The new deal supplements Epix’s existing availability on an a la carte basis, swapping Epix for Starz in the…

As an impasse with AT&T continues into a second week, CBS Corp. has reached a carriage deal with Altice USA, a major cable provider. The new deal covers retransmission consent for CBS-owned stations and the carriage of Showtime, CBS Sports Network, Pop TV and Smithsonian Channel on the Optimum and Suddenlink cable…

Discovery and FuboTV have announced a new, multi-year carriage agreement that will bring 13 Discovery networks to Fubo’s streaming service in the coming weeks. The deal extends the relationship between the companies that dates back before the 2018 acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive by Discovery. The prior…

As a knock-on effect of last week’s resolution of a carriage dispute between AT&T and Viacom, DirecTV will soon add several Viacom networks to both of its subscription tiers. The channels will become available April 5 on the $50-a-month Plus level and the $70-a-month Max level. Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., MTV, BET and…

UPDATED with closing prices. Shares in Viacom, which have had an up-and-down 2019, jumped 4% to close at $26.32 on the news in the pre-dawn hours that the company reached a new carriage deal with AT&T. Trading volume was more than twice the normal average, with shares generally ranging between $26.50 and $27 as…