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DirecTV and Nexstar announced Monday that they had largely resolved a bitter carriage dispute that had left millions of the satellite carrier’s subscribers unable to access local television ...
Millions of DirecTV customers lost access to Nexstar channels after the two companies failed to agree to a new distribution contract by a Sunday night deadline.
Updated July 6, 2023 at 10:47 AM. Des Moines-based WHO-DT has been removed from all DirecTV services because the two media companies were unable to reach a new distribution agreement. As a result ...
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago.The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 television stations across the U.S., most of which are affiliated with the four "major" U.S. television networks and MyNetworkTV in markets as large as New York City and as ...
WIVB was pulled from DirecTV as part of a broader dispute between DirecTV and Nexstar on July 4, 2019, a dispute that was resolved on August 29. WIVB was again pulled from DirecTV as part of another dispute between DirecTV and Nexstar at 7 p.m. (ET) on July 2, 2023. [52]
On October 30, 2023, the station posted a press release noting it had dropped The CW over a dispute with Nexstar, claiming the sale would not be approved in the near future, with MyNetworkTV programming reverting to its prime time berth.
The pact covers 176 of Nexstar’s local stations and cabler NewsNation. On Sunday, Nexstar restored these channels to the DirecTV lineup, ahead of a formal agreement being set.
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. These disputes often involve financial compensation – what the ...