It’s a reversal of fortune for the nation’s leading owner of broadcast television stations, and a win in a U.S. federal appeals court for direct broadcast satellite owner DirecTV.
In a just-released decision, the Second Circuit overturned a New York federal district court ruling that had granted Nexstar Media Group’s motion to dismiss claims from DirecTV that it engaged in antitrust activities when it failed to reach a retransmission consent accord with the DBS provider in 2022.
