“Nexstar routinely reaches amicable retransmission and carriage agreements with its cable, satellite, and telco partners-in the last three years alone, the company has successfully completed agreements with more than 500 distribution partners.”Īfter the carriage contract ended, DirecTV also weighed in on the blackout claiming, “Nexstar has a long track record of forcing programming outages in an effort to unnecessarily raise prices,” said Rob Thun, chief content officer of DirecTV.

“Nexstar has been negotiating tirelessly and in good faith in an attempt to reach a mutually agreeable multi-year contract with DirecTV since May, offering the same fair market rates it offered to other distribution partners with whom it completed successful negotiations in the past year,” the statement continued. In addition, DirecTV rejected Nexstar’s offer to extend the current distribution agreement to Oct. “DirecTV and Nexstar were unable to reach a new distribution agreement allowing the DirecTV the right to continue airing the highly-rated programming on Nexstar’s local stations. Affiliate stations for all broadcast networks as well as NewsNation are part of the impasse. owner of local TV stations and also owns cable network NewsNation and a controlling stake in the CW broadcast network.

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