Fox, TW strike retrans deal.

Broadcasting & Cable, January, 2000 by McClellan, Steve

MSO opts to carry 22 O&Os and agrees to roll out two digital cable channels

Without much fanfare Fox has been busy over the past several months negotiating new retransmission agreements with most of the major cable MSOs and satellite operators. The latest deal, announced last week, was with Time Warner Cable. But Fox also has closed deals with AT&T, MediaOne, Charter, Comcast, DirecTV and Echostar, and negotiations are ongoing with Cox Communications. In most cases, Fox traded retransmission rights for its 22 owned TV stations in exchange for expanded carriage of one or more of its growing collection of cable networks.

Fox parent News Corp. and Time Warner Cable announced a new long-term retransmission consent deal covering the analog and...

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