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.
Dish drops NFL Network in dispute over fees. Viacom shares tumble after Dish Network deal darkens. Verizon Wireless is very interested in buying Dish Networkâs spectrum, The Post has learned. A top Verizon executive told a group of insiders in the last few weeks that the countryâs No. 1 wireless carrier was eyeing the lucrative spectrum owned by Charlie Ergenâs satellite-TV company, a banker with direct knowledge of the conversation said.