Couch potatoes rejoice, you’re going to get your helpings of American Idol and NFL on FOX. WSVN parent Sunbeam Television and DirecTV have reached an agreement.
With all the nations problems solved Senator John Kerry turned his attention to the Sunbeam-DirecTV retransmission dispute and warned both parties to get it together and solve their dispute before the Superbowl. Kerry, Scott Brown and 10 other Mass. house reps sent the letter to both DirecTV and Sunbeam.
Senator Kerry followed with a second letter [...]
Most people were convinced Sunbeam and DirecTV would come to an agreement at the last second but neither side budged so WSVN, WHDH and WLVI have gone dark on DirecTV after an agreement was not reached by 11:59pm on Friday night. DirecTV followed that with a scathing press release calling Sunbeam an outlier “who has no problem committing an [...]
As the retrans fee dispute between WSVN and DirecTV reaches the 11th hour, and the station being unable to get what they feel is a fair market value, starting last night a one minute and 40 seconds story on the dispute started to air warning viewers that more than 270,000 people (DirecTV customers?) in South Florida could miss this weekend’s [...]
Managed to catch some of ‘Today in Florida’ this morning and it appears WSVN and DirecTV are in a retrans fee argument. Every half our before the first ad break WSVN ran a full screen notice warning DirecTV viewers they might lose WSVN and FOX programming if the two companies don’t come to an agreement by [...]
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