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DirecTV will allow customers to opt out of local TV stations and pay a lower monthly rate. NextTV is reporting that customers who decide not to pay for local stations through DirecTV will receive discounts of $12 a month. "Consumers have been voting with their wallets for years that pay TV…

DirecTV and major station group Tegna have struck a carriage deal, ending a programming blackout that began November 30 and affected roughly 5 million customers across the U.S.. The signals of Tegna's 64 owned stations in 51 Nielsen designated markets will return to DirecTV satellite systems, DirecTV…

Well, that’s gotta hurt. The National Football League isn't officially saying anything yet, but the league just suffered a major loss – and we’re not talking about the woeful end of Bill Belichick’s reign at the New England Patriots. Failing to get the nearly decade long antitrust lawsuit over…

Dozens of local TV stations owned by Tegna, most of them NBC and CBS affiliates, have gone dark on DirecTV in a carriage dispute. The companies failed to reach an agreement before a 5 p.m. PT deadline Thursday. The outage will immediately affect roughly 5 million customers in markets across the U.S…

Nexstar posted third-quarter results Wednesday marred by a carriage dispute with DirecTV as well as a cyclical lack of political advertising. Total revenue slipped 11% from the year-earlier quarter to $1.1 billion and earnings fell to 70 cents a share from $7.30. Both metrics undershot Wall Street…

With its shares in free fall after a dismal third-quarter earnings report, Dish Network executives faced the music with Wall Street, conceding in an earnings call that they face an array of intensifying challenges. “We have a narrow path, but there is a path, to achieve financial stability and make…

In another latest salvo amid tensions between video providers and programmers, DirecTV sent a letter to Warner Bros. Discovery warning that offering CNN as part of its streaming package risks violating the contract between the two companies. CNN's new CNN Max launched last week on WBD's Max streaming…

UPDATED with formal agreement. A week after Charter and Disney made peace on the distribution front, DirecTV and Nexstar have set a multi-year carriage renewal, ending a dispute that started in early July. The agreement was announced this morning in a brief joint press release, with the companies…

Tom Carter, a longtime former Nexstar exec who is now a senior advisor to the CEO and board of directors, says the company could acquire Disney’s local ABC TV stations with “little friction” if they become available. Disney CEO Bob Iger spurred talk of a potential sale of the eight stations over the…

To the relief of many in the embattled pay-TV business, which faces its most uncertain fall season in decades along with existential angst due to cord-cutting, a reliable viewer draw is about to return. College football season kicks off on Saturday, with a slate of seven televised games starting with…

A Fourth of July miracle appears extremely unlikely for the millions of DirecTV customers who lost access Sunday to programming from Nexstar-owned local stations or cable network NewsNation. Instead, a protracted distribution battle is apt to play out during a summer programming lull and a time of…

A new carriage dispute has been initiated between Nexstar Media Group and DirecTV, forcing more than 150 local TV stations to go dark on one of the country’s largest pay-TV providers. The companies failed to come to terms with a new agreement, and subscribers are now deprived of local stations…