For the second time this calendar year, the parent company of KCCI and KETV is in a retransmission dispute with a pay-TV provider. At the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day, KCCI and other Hearst stations were pulled from DirecTV and not restored for about a week.
Now, the dispute is with Dish, and KCCI could be pulled off that satellite provider tonight.
Iowa had gone for a little while without any stations actually being dropped, but this pair of problems returns us back to the “new normal” tug-of-war, I guess. (And the customer always loses.)