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.
Warren Schlichting, Dish senior vice president of programming, said in a statement. that Fox blacked out two of its news channels, using them as leverage to triple rates on sports and entertainment channels that are not in this contract..ox News Channel did not disconnect Dish, rather, Dish prematurely ceased distribution of Fox News in an attempt to intimidate and sway our negotiations, said Tim Carry, executive vie president of distribution for Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.