Update: Negotiations continued well after midnight Et on Jan. 1 between AMC Networks and select Nctc member companies, averting a blackout, at least temporarily.
AMC Networks and a coalition of independent cable operators are going down to the wire in negotiations on a new carriage agreement covering about 4 million subscribers, most of them in small and rural markets.
AMC Networks execs and reps for the National Cable Television Cooperative remained in talks Thursday in an effort to hammer out a successor agreement to a deal that expires at midnight Jan. 1. The Lenexa, Kan.-based Nctc in total represents about 850 small cable operators covering about 12 million subscribers, although only a portion of Nctc member companies are involved in the AMC Networks talks.
Tension in the negotiations has been building for some time, with both sides warning viewers for weeks that a blackout threat is looming. AMC is on a mission to secure
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AMC Networks and a coalition of independent cable operators are going down to the wire in negotiations on a new carriage agreement covering about 4 million subscribers, most of them in small and rural markets.
AMC Networks execs and reps for the National Cable Television Cooperative remained in talks Thursday in an effort to hammer out a successor agreement to a deal that expires at midnight Jan. 1. The Lenexa, Kan.-based Nctc in total represents about 850 small cable operators covering about 12 million subscribers, although only a portion of Nctc member companies are involved in the AMC Networks talks.
Tension in the negotiations has been building for some time, with both sides warning viewers for weeks that a blackout threat is looming. AMC is on a mission to secure