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.
ESPN, TNT out as Peacock inks $4.4 billion-deal to bring sport to the net for first time since '06. NBC is back in business with NASCAR, inking a 10-year deal to carry more than half of the popular Sprint Cup Series starting in 2015. The rights, for which the Peacock shelled out roughly $4.4 billion or $440 million annually, would replace those currently held by ESPN and Turnerâs TNT.