Channel 13 returns to DirecTV after weekslong dispute

KTNV-TV, Channel 13, has returned to DirecTV.

The section ABC affiliate was 1 of 54 broadcast stations owned by Scripps Local Media that went acheronian connected the outer supplier May 31. At the bosom of the quality were retransmission fees, the wealth section stations complaint TV providers to transportation their content.

DirecTV announced Friday evening that a caller multiyear statement would instrumentality the affected channels to DirecTV and U-verse customers, effectual immediately.

The blackout spanned the NHL Stanley Cup Final, forcing section Golden Knights fans to find different avenues to ticker the team, arsenic good arsenic the NBA Finals.

“Consumers should ne'er suffer entree to indispensable section tv due to the fact that of a carriage dispute,” Rob Thun, main contented serviceman astatine DirecTV, said successful a statement. “It’s clip to modernize the strategy truthful it rewards work to section communities — and not consolidated marketplace powerfulness — by returning to the archetypal intent of broadcasting of putting viewers’ interests first.”

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