DirecTV and Viacom have averted a blackout that would have removed channels such as BET and Comedy Central from the pay-TV service. The contract between DirecTV parent AT&T and Viacom expired at ...

“AT&T-DIRECTV is about to drop MTV ... We are on the side of customer choice and value and want to keep Viacom’s channels in our customers’ lineups. We hope to avoid any interruption ...

“Viacom has made many offers to AT&T-DirecTV that would: Keep these channels on the air; Enable AT&T-DirecTV to lower bills now (and) give consumers more choice,” Keepviacom says. “Rather ...

At issue are price increases Viacom wants to extract from DirecTV to keep carrying its cable channels. “Viacom is pushing DirecTV customers to pay more than a 30% increase, which equates to an ...

Viacom stock was rising Monday after the company announced it had reached a deal to keep its channels on DirecTV. The back story. Viacom stock (ticker: VIAB) fell more than 7% last week while the ...

DIRECTV executives reached out to Viacom both yesterday and today with a new proposal and a request to keep the channels on while we continued to negotiate, but never heard back, so DIRECTV had to ...

Viacom is largely blaming AT&T’s behemoth power with DirecTV, U-verse, and WarnerMedia under its purview. “Unfortunately, AT&T is abusing its new market position by favoring its own content ...

However, that is becoming a more common occurrence lately. DirecTV said it wanted to keep Viacom’s channels on while the two tried to hammer out an agreement but its request was denied.

By Paul Bond DirecTV Logo - H 2011 “The Viacom battle has lasted long enough ... as it will be very hard for DirecTV to keep repeating this ‘test’ of will power,” Greenfield wrote.

Even so, they warn that the spat “may go on a long time” due to the huge gap between what Viacom wants and DirecTV is willing to pay. Get our Breaking News Alerts and Keep your inbox happy.