AT&T, whose DirecTV satellite and U-verse cable systems experienced blackouts of stations owned by CBS and Nexstar over the summer, is facing another carriage crossroads with Sinclair Broadcast…
Sinclair, the No. 2 U.S. owner of local TV stations, issued a warning Friday that millions of viewers in 86 markets could lose access to 136 stations and Tennis Channel as a carriage deadline looms.
The current carriage agreement expired in August, but the parties agreed to a five-week extension. The new deadline is next Friday, September 27. An AT&T rep did not immediately respond to Deadline’s request for comment. The telecom and media giant has been coping with pressure from activist investor Elliott Management, which has identified its pay-TV operations and the 2015 acquisition of DirecTV as a significant flaw in the company’s operations.
on Wall Street that AT&T could seek to unload the satellite distributor, though the path to such a deal is complicated and would likely leave red ink in its wake given subscriber declines of late.Hanging in the balance during the carriage standoff are NFL games, late-season and postseason Major League Baseball games as well as the early part of the fall broadcast season.
“AT&T is the largest MVPD in the country and seems intent on using its tremendous market power to dictate to viewers which programming from other content providers they can receive, even as they continue to acquire content providers and push their own content to viewers,” Sinclair SVP and General Counsel David Gibber said in a press release.
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