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.
Danielle Johnson, a DISH Network spokeswoman, said that negotiating the retransmission contracts with broadcasters is something the company does all the time and all over the U.S. âWeâre absolutely at the negotiating table with market-based offer, ready to sign a fair deal,â she said.