- AP, Sunday, January 2, 2011 11:09 PM
DirecTV satellite subscribers around the country will continue to receive network TV stations owned by Hearst Corp. after the two companies reached a new deal over the fees that DirecTV pays the
broadcasting company to carry stations on its lineup. Terms were not disclosed.
The original deal would have expired at midnight Friday, and subscribers in Boston, Pittsburgh,
Baltimore and other markets could have lost Hearst-owned stations on DirecTV. Hearst owns 29 local TV stations, which include affiliates of all the major networks except Fox. Many of these
negotiations over fees have been going down to the wire or even extended past the expiration of previous deals, leaving cable and satellite subscribers without channels for days, even weeks.
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