Station owners have continued to secure higher retrans fees in recent negotiations, with strong advances made at year-end 2014 from renewals and annual step-ups in existing contracts, SNL Kagan said. While station owners have been successful at securing rising rates, broadcast networks have also been able to extract their share of rising fees (“reverse comp”), although SNL Kagan does expect continued growth for net retrans over time.
Source: Kagan: Retrans Revenue To Hit $10.3B by ’21 | TVNewsCheck.com