The deadlock inbetween DirecTV and Disney over a brand-new carriage contract hasactually endedupbeing more heated as it gotin its 2nd week.
DirecTV submitted a grievance with the Federal Communications Commission on Saturday night implicating Disney of negotiating in bad faith.
Disney channels, consistingof ESPN and ABC-owned stations in 9 markets, haveactually been off DirecTV because the night of Sept. 1. That indicated DirecTV consumers were blacked out from seeing most college football videogames and the last week of the U.S. Open tennis competition, consistingof the ladies’s and guys’s finals.
DirecTV has 11.3 million customers, according to Leichtman Research Group, making it the country’s third-largest pay TELEVISION company.
ABC and ESPN will have the “Monday Night Football” opener inbetween the New York Jets and San Francisco 49ers. ABC will likewise produce and bring a governmental dispute inbetween Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Tuesday in Philadelphia.
ABC-owned stations in Los Angeles; the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina, are off DirecTV.
Besides all ESPN network channels and ABC-owned stations, Disney-branded channels Freeform, FX and National Geographic channel are dark.
DirecTV states in its 10-page grievance that Disney is breaking the FCC’s excellent faith requireds by asking it to waive any legal declares on any antico