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.
Raycom Goes Dark on DISH for 400%-Plus Bonus. Raycom Media demands DISH customers pay more than four times more to still receive their local ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC stations amid 53 Raycom stations affected in 36 cities. Raycom returns the stations after an eight-day standoff in August 2013.