DIRECTV Accepts Tribune's Terms for Broadcast Stations
March 31 2012 - 12:38PM
Business Wire
DIRECTV said today that it has accepted financial terms
Tribune’s management offered to it by phone on Thursday, March 29
at 3:30 PM EST, to carry their 23 local broadcast stations to
ensure customers do not lose their programming when the agreement
with Tribune expires tonight at midnight.
“We accept the rate proposal Tribune set forth on Thursday for
the local channels and look forward to completing this agreement,”
said Dan Hartman, senior vice president of Programming. “While we
have been negotiating in good faith for two months, we believe
Tribune’s viewers and our customers are best served by making sure
the local stations remain on our service without disruption first
and will then negotiate a separate agreement for WGN America.”
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