LIN TV Discontinues Contract With Suddenlink

LIN TV, a television and digital media company, has announced that an agreement could not be reached with cable provider Suddenlink Communications, and Suddenlink has discontinued carriage of LIN TV’s KXAN-TV in the Austin market and KBIM-TV in the Albuquerque market when the current contract expired on December 31, 2007.

LIN TV has successfully signed agreements with other subscription-based television services, including cable operators, telephone companies and satellite providers.

Gregory Schmidt, executive vice president digital media at LIN TV, said: “Suddenlink charges its customers a fee for local broadcast stations and our stations deserve a fair share of that, so we can continue providing the premium news, sports, entertainment, and other local programming that is most important to our viewers.”