IRVING, Texas, and NEW YORK After exchanging increasingly pointed barbs in recent weeks, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. and Altice USA (NYSE: ATUS) reached a new distribution agreement that immediately restored all Nexstar stations and programming to Altice USA's Optimum TV customers on Jan. 18.
Nexstar, Altice USA End Blackout
21/01/2025
IRVING, Texas, and NEW YORK After exchanging increasingly pointed barbs in recent weeks, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. and Altice USA (NYSE: ATUS) reached a new distribution agreement that immediately restored all Nexstar stations and programming to Altice USA's Optimum TV customers on Jan. 18.
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