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retransmission

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[ree-tranz-mish-uhn, -trans-] / ˌri trænzˈmɪʃ ən, -træns- /

noun

  1. the act or process of transmitting again or the fact of being transmitted again.


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More stations, especially in the same markets, would give operators better bargaining power to negotiate higher fees from cable companies and lower retransmission rates from national TV companies, analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

The lawsuit said that by conspiring to set retransmission fees, the station groups forced providers and their customers "to pay supracompetitive prices or lose access to the most popular broadcast television programming."

From Reuters • Mar. 14, 2023

Announced Tuesday, the renewal provides continued carriage of ESPN’s popular SEC Network as well as retransmission rights for the ABC-owned television stations in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Fresno, Houston and Raleigh, N.C.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2021

So far, Broens says, there is no evidence of such retransmission from dogs and cats back into humans.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2021

When Peter replied that such a message would be costly, involving an expensive retransmission by cable from Manila to Hong Kong, she only laughed.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Hoskins, Gayle Porter

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