DELRAY BEACH, FLA. — For fans of the NHL Stanley Cup Champions, the Florida Panthers, tuning in to last night’s game against the Ottawa Senators on one of two broadcast TV stations owned by The E.W. Scripps Co. seemed like just another ordinary evening. It was hardly ordinary. During the second period of an eventual 6-3 Panthers victory, WSFL-39 in Miami, WHDT-9 in West Palm Beach and every other station owned by Scripps was pulled by law from Comcast’s Xfinity cable TV systems across the U.S.
The reason? A fresh retransmission consent accord could not be reached as the old one lapsed.
