AT&T Starts Emergency Weather Channel During Nexstar Blackout
AT&T is launching an emergency weather information channel for homes in the Gulf region as a substitute for local news coverage on Nexstar stations that have gone dark, it said Thursday. It said it has done similar weather information channels…
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in the past to keep tabs on hurricane conditions. The blackout, which began last week, involves more than 120 Nexstar stations that were on DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse lineups (see 1907090048). AT&T said Nexstar is demanding sizably more in retransmission fees. Nexstar said it has a long history of successful carriage agreements with MVPDs, while DirecTV since its 2015 purchase by AT&T "has been routinely involved in disputes."