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.
None of the networks, nor the announcers comment on contract details, especially how much money is being dished out. Thatâs why itâs such a big deal when details like this are mentioned publicly. Naturally, the top earners at each network are of little surprise. Al Michaels at NBC. Jim Nantz at CBS. Joe Buck at Fox.