Tegna, Verizon Reach Multi-Year Carriage Agreement

By Tom Butts
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MCLEAN, VA–Station group Tegna announced late Thursday that it has reached a multi-year carriage agreement with Verizon, which dropped three of Tegna’s stations from its FiOS lineup on New Year’s Eve.

Financial details and length of agreement were not disclosed.

WUSA in Washington, D.C., WVEC in Norfolk, VA and WGRZ in Buffalo, NY will return to the Verizon lineup effective immediately, Tegna said.

Tom Butts
Tom Butts

Tom has covered the broadcast technology market for the past 25 years, including three years handling member communications for the National Association of Broadcasters followed by a year as editor of Video Technology News and DTV Business executive newsletters for Phillips Publishing. In 1999 he launched digitalbroadcasting.com for internet B2B portal Verticalnet. He is also a charter member of the CTA's Academy of Digital TV Pioneers. Since 2001, he has been editor-in-chief of TV Tech (www.tvtech.com), the leading source of news and information on broadcast and related media technology and is a frequent contributor and moderator to the brand’s Tech Leadership events.