Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Tribune Broadcasting and DirecTV Reach 5-year deal for the U.S. Markets Have Regained.


A direcTV subscribers in 19 U.S. markets have regained access to a host of channels that had been blacked out since Sunday because of a contract impasse with Tribune Broadcasting in two companies said late Wednesday that they had struck a deal that will allow DirecTV Inc to carry all of Tribune Broadcasting's local stations and WGN America is the next five year to terms were not disclosed.

The direcTV Inc subscribers in the markets lost access to programming ranging from "American Idol" to Major League Baseball after the previous contract with Tribune Broadcasting expired at midnight Saturday in the tribune broadcasting channels were restored at about 8 p.m. CDT Wednesday, DirectTV said.

And the blackout affected DirecTV subscribers in major markets including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Philadelphia in the blackout also extended to stations in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, Washington state and Washington, D.C. DirectTV said 5 million homes were affected.

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