Circle City Broadcasting, a company with stations serving Indianapolis, Indiana and the surrounding areas has filed suit against AT&T alleging that they are refusing to negotiate a contract with the minority-owned television broadcasting company.
Circle City claims AT&T have refused to do business with them because the stations in question are owned by a Black man.
wishtv.com reported: “When the stations were owned by Nexstar, “AT&T paid Nexstar for the right to retransmit the stations’ signals, and passed on those charges to its customers in the Indianapolis area,” according to the lawsuit.
“The very day Circle City purchased WISH-TV and WNDY-TV, AT&T halted all retransmission payments for those stations, after paying full market price to the prior owner of the stations for years,” the lawsuit alleges.
AT&T has since “offered zero compared to the rates it paid the prior broadcaster, Nexstar,” according to the lawsuit.”
DuJuan McCoy, President and CEO of Circle City Circle City Broadcasting spoke with Roland Martin during Friday’s edition of #RolandMartinUnfiltered about the lawsuit and battle against AT&T.
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