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.
That's when Dish's contract to carry CBS expires, and the two sides have yet to sign a new one. For now they're trading barbs in the press, putting pressure on each other and causing some Dish customers to worry about losing access to the Tiffany Network.