DirecTV

The deal will give its streaming customers more programming options

The deal is for new subs who sign up for a DirecTV Genre Pack and a Gemini streaming device

The offering will bring together marquee live sports matchups into a single view

Deal makes it ‘preferred national distributor’ for all EverPass products and services, including pro football package, for commercial establishments

Multi-year agreement returns 54 local broadcast stations to customers in 36 metro regions and ends a five week blackout.

Business In a retrans dispute, 54 local stations have been removed from DirecTV’s streaming, satellite and U-verse platforms

The temporary restraining order prevents Nexstar from integrating Tegna's operations until at least April 7

The federal anti-trust suit alleges that the deal will drive up consumer costs, reduce local competition, shutter local newsrooms and lead to more retrans blackouts

The study filed with the FCC found that in `the majority of duopolies, triopolies, and quadropolies’ station groups offered `essentially the same local news’

The transfers had been opposed by DirecTV who contended they would increase retrans fees and programming prices for consumers