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/ 08.18.2010 3:00PM
KVIA-TV Talks with DirecTV Reach Impasse
EL PASO, TEXAS: Carriage talks between KVIA-TV and DirecTV
have come to a halt, the station says.
“KVIA-TV ABC-7 and the DirecTV satellite service are negotiating a new
satellite carriage agreement,” KVIA said Monday. “Unfortunately, the
negotiations are currently at an impasse and the current contract expires on
Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 at 1 p.m. El Paso time.”
The El Paso Times
reported that KVIA General
Manager Kevin Lowell said the station was asking “but a small fraction of what
DirecTV pays less viewed cable networks such as The Disney Channel, ESPN and
Fox Sports.”
Lowell said DirecTV was also refusing carriage for KVIA’s diginets, including
the El Paso-Las Cruces CW, LATV and StormTrack 24-7.
“If you are a DirecTV subscriber and if ABC-7 is unable to reach a new
agreement with DirecTV, you will not be able to receive ABC-7 newscasts or
programs from the ABC network from the DirecTV satellite service after next
Monday afternoon,” KVIA says at its
Web site. “ABC-7 will,
of course, continue to be available to you free over the air, or by cable, or
by satellite from the Dish Network. ABC-7 will keep you fully informed of the
progress of the negotiations with DirecTV.”
-- Deborah D. McAdams
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