a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship. 2. a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status. adjective. 3. of, relating to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly: a pseudointellectual book.
The media group is negotiating a multiyear contract for transmission fees of all NBC programming with DISH Network, and if no agreement is reached by Saturday night, that programming will go dark, though only for DISH subscribers.
Dish's main satellite rival, DirecTV, blacked out The Weather Channel for nearly three months last winter. Meanwhile, channel owners like Turner -- armed with broadly popular programming like CNN and Adult Swim -- believe they've earned gradual fee increases.