Carriage dispute
![A Time Warner Cable advertisement from its December 2009 carriage dispute with Fox. Designed to resemble a ransom note, the ad continued: “We’re standing up to Fox. Don’t let Fox hold your TV hostage.”[9]](/Images/godic/202501/09/Fox-Time_Warner_dispute5814.jpg")
A carriage dispute is a disagreement over the right to "carry", that is, retransmit, a broadcaster's signal. Carriage disputes first occurred between broadcasters and cable companies and now include direct broadcast satellite and other multichannel video programming distributors.