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.
Stalled talks leave Dish customers without Tribune TV stations, WGN America. Dish Network has dropped WGN America, the cable home of the series Underground, along with parent company Tribune Media's TV stations across the U.S., in a dispute over carriage fees. (WGN America)