On June 30, the retransmission consent agreement between the nation’s No. 1 owner of broadcast TV stations and MVPD Hawaiian Telcom expired. This led the MVPD, by law, to prevent its customers on O’ahu from receiving FOX affiliate KHON-2, a dual FOX/The CW station; KHII-9, the MyNetwork TV station acquired in 2019 that was formerly KFVE; digital multicast networks Grit and Rewind TV; and the nationally distributed NewsNation cable TV channel.
It is now known that an agreement apparently reached in principle between Hawaiian Telcom and Nexstar Media Group was not finalized because, the MVPD says, it was presented “with new demands — to waive its claims that Nexstar acted in bad faith.”
