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.
Shares of Dish Network Corp. [d: dish] jumped in the extended session Monday after S&P Dow Jones Indices said the pay-TV service company would join the S&P 500 index . Dish shares surged 5% to $64.31 after hours. S&P said Dish will join the index next Monday, before the market open.