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.
Fox News and Dish have reached a deal to end the weeks-long blackout on that satellite television network. The blackout, which has been ongoing since the week before Christmas, stemmed from a dispute over carriage fees for Fox News and Fox Business Network, along with newer, less-watched 21st Century Fox stations like FS1 and FXX.