Hawaiian Telcom Services filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission charging Nexstar Media Group with negotiating in bad faith by withholding retransmission consent, blacking out KHON Honolulu and several satellite stations.
The complaint comes as Nexstar is engaged in a massive blackout with DirecTV affecting about 200 stations, if you include an earlier ongoing dispute with Nexstar-managed stations owned by Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting. DirecTV is offering impacted viewers a $10 rebate for the programming they’re not receiving because it hasn’t reached a new retransmission agreement with Nexstar. Nexstar, which owns the biggest U.S. station group, is known for aggressively pursuing top retransmission payments from distributors.
