More than 100 Nexstar Media stations in 97 markets nationwide went dark on AT&T’s DirecTV, DirecTV Now and AT&T U-verse when the companies’ current contract expired overnight. E…
when the companies’ current contract expired overnight. Each blamed the other for the action.
AT&T, meanwhile, said Nexstar rejected a sweetened offer and “elected to remove them from your lineups instead, putting you in the middle of its negotiations,” it said in a note to subscribers. AT&T said on a website devoted to the dispute that “Nexstar pulls or threatens to pull their stations from the customers of TV providers to increase fees for stations far beyond their value. They’ve done it to Cox Cable, DISH, and Charter Spectrum, and now they’re doing it to us.”
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