Tegna stations in Minneapolis, Des Moines, the Quad Cities, and 48 other markets are back on DirecTV after a nearly three-week outage caused by a retransmission consent dispute.
The outage began Dec. 1 and ended Dec. 20. It affected 64 stations in 51 markets, including NBC affiliate KARE/11 (Minneapolis), ABC affiliates WOI/5 (Ames-Des Moines) and WQAD/8 (Moline-Quad Cities), and CW affiliate KCWI/23 (Ames-Des Moines).
A joint news release announcing the end of the outage did not disclose what made the two sides come to a deal, but said Tegna and DirecTV owner AT&T regret any inconvenience to their customers and viewers.
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