CBS Says DirecTV, AT&T U-Verse Customers May Lose Access to Programming
July 16 2019 - 4:58PM
Dow Jones News
By Stephen Nakrosis
CBS Corp. (CBS) said on Tuesday that viewers could lose access
on DirecTV and AT&T U-verse TV if negotiations with AT&T
fail to produce a new agreement.
The company said CBS-owned television stations in a number of
cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Dallas, San Francisco and Boston, could be blacked out from these
services. Customers of DirecTV also could lose programming from the
CBS Television Network as well.
According to CBS, AT&T "continues to propose unfair terms
well below those agreed to by its competitors and may drop CBS
unless we agree to those terms."
A statement from AT&T said, "We want the CBS
owned-and-operated and Nexstar local stations in our lineups,"
adding, "Broadcast stations are the incumbents to our industry, and
many feel they deserve certain entitlements. They continue to give
their signals away for free but also demand unsustainably growing
fees for allowing customers the convenience of receiving their
channels in a usual program guide or without switching an input."
AT&T also said, "Fans of stations affected by any CBS or
Nexstar blackout can watch over the air, at the station websites,
often at CBS.com or other network websites, and typically using the
CBS and other Big Four network mobile apps."
--Write to Stephen Nakrosis at stephen.nakrosis@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 16, 2019 16:43 ET (20:43 GMT)
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