The FCC Wednesday announced fines totaling $9 million on 17 stations – or eight licensees – affiliated with Sinclair Broadcast Group for not negotiating retransmission consent agreement with AT&T in good faith.The so-called Forfeiture Order imposed a per-station penalty of $512,228 against each defendant “for willfully and repeatedly violating the Commission’s good faith negotiation standards,” the FCC said.
The negotiations dated back to 2019. In the case of only one defendant station, which showed “a demonstrable inability to pay,” it reduced the proposed forfeiture to $30,000.Retransmission consent agreements establish the fees TV stations charge video providers for rights to carry, or retransmit, their signals.The penalty follows a
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