How to Use retransmission in a Sentence

retransmission

noun
  • So far, Broens says, there is no evidence of such retransmission from dogs and cats back into humans.
    — Frank Schubert, Scientific American, 20 July 2021
  • The strongest hand content companies could play was their retransmission agreements, which Sling had not signed.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Kao found that total retransmission rate fees are projected to continue growing in the coming years.
    — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Fees like regional sports programming or broadcast retransmission consent can no longer be obscured.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Sunday's multi-year retransmission agreement restores service for all those stations.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 20 Dec. 2020
  • When a collision occurs because two stations transmit at the same time, the retransmissions make sure that the data gets across eventually.
    — Iljitsch Van Beijnum, Ars Technica, 29 June 2023
  • That’s because they don’t get paid nearly as much from pay-TV distributors in retransmission fees as the cable networks.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Broadcast channels must have retransmission agreements with cable and satellite operators to be carried in those systems.
    — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Sinclair relies on retransmission consent fees that cable and satellite providers pay broadcasters to include their signals in channel lineups.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The squabble centered on retransmission rates, or the fees that TV station owners such as Tegna charge cable providers to air its stations.
    — Madison Iszler, ExpressNews.com, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Stations need to attract viewers; otherwise, the stations can’t sell ad time to local businesses or charge retransmission fees to distributors.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Programming costs continue to go up, in particular (retransmissions) is a real problem.
    — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 30 Jan. 2026
  • And cable television continues to boast lavish retransmission fees that haven’t been equaled from digital delivery systems.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 8 Feb. 2023
  • With no way to monetize the matches via ad sales and given that retransmission consent/carriage fees did not exist at the time, network execs weren’t even the tiniest bit interested in trying to grow the sport.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026
  • The dispute began when a long-running retransmission agreement expired at the end of October and negotiations collapsed.
    — Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Nov. 2025
  • And automatic error correction or retransmission schemes may completely hide the interference from the user.
    — Mark A. McHenry, IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2015
  • Disney not only brings in subscription and ad revenue from its cable channels, but also pockets retransmission fees from operators paying to broadcast its programming.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026
  • All the remaining stuff, like breaking and reassembling messages, detecting errors, and retransmission, would stay in TCP.
    — ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Specifically, Murdoch said that Fox has shifted its revenue mix to be distribution-heavy, relying on cable carriage fees and broadcast retransmission fees to provide growth.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Speaking of which, the decline in dollars tied to carriage deals remains bleak, as cable affiliate fees dropped another 6% in Q3, while broadcast retransmission consent dollars were up a meager 2%.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Per Guideline’s analysis, ad help offset about 50% of most top-tier sports rights fees, with affiliate revenue, retransmission consent fees and other third-party payments accounting for a good chunk of the remainder.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Subscriptions to the pay-TV bundle eroded quickly during the pandemic, reducing the audiences, ad revenues, and carriage/retransmission fees that companies can attract.
    — David Bloom, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • In the golden age of cable, the bundle gave TV networks a highly profitable and stable revenue stream including affiliate, retransmission and advertising fees, in some cases packaged with broadband and cell phone services.
    — Jonathan Bing, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Traditional pay-TV operators like cable and satellite companies are covered by affiliate deals that create close to a 50-50 split when its comes to retransmission consent fees.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Judge Nunley agreed with the states that sued, finding that the merger would reduce competition between local stations and thus reduce the quality of local news, while also increasing Nexstar's bargaining leverage for retransmission fees from cable and satellite companies.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The data channel will be doing gigabits per second with retransmissions and hybrid ARQ [automatic repeat request], whereas the control channel, it‘s replacing something that‘s sending a small amount of information quickly to the device.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Despite consumers’ shift away from watching traditional TV in favor of streaming services, local broadcast TV continues to generate healthy profits, in part because of the lucrative retransmission fees received for being carried in cable packages.
    — Lillian Rizzo, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The company has affiliation agreements with 227 other local stations and negotiates retransmission rights for those with YouTube TV and other virtual pay-TV providers.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Anywhere from 33% to 50% of a broadcast station group’s annual revenue stems from retransmission fees — payments made to a broadcaster for the inclusion of local TV affiliates in pay-TV bundles — with advertising making up most of the rest.
    — Lillian Rizzo,alex Sherman, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
  • According to the Federal Communications Commission, retransmission consent requires television stations to give consent to a cable or other multichannel video programming distributor in order to carry their broadcast signals.
    — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026

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