a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship. 2. a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status. adjective. 3. of, relating to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly: a pseudointellectual book.
The media group is negotiating a multiyear contract for transmission fees of all NBC programming with DISH Network, and if no agreement is reached by Saturday night, that programming will go dark, though only for DISH subscribers.
A Reuters story about the threats posed by Aereo and Dish Networkâs ad-skipping Hopper DVR to the broadcast business model quoted Ancier making the claim that two of the Big Four networks â ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox â have for months been evaluating whether they might be better off becoming, in effect, cable channels.