Nexstar fraudulently collected $10.5 million in fees from DirecTV, appeals court rules

Nexstar Media Group collected $10.5 million in retransmission-consent fees from DirecTV by fraudulently withholding information about one of its stations, a New York State appeals court ruled on Thursday.

Nexstar had appealed a July ruling by the New York State Supreme Court after DirecTV sued Nexstar to recover those fees.

The case revolved around a new distribution agreement in which Nexstar received fees to carry a station then-known as WHAG, an NBC affiliate in Hagerstown, Maryland.

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