CBS stations blacked out for DirecTV customers after deal with AT&T fails
Millions of DirecTV subscribers lost access to CBS programming late Friday after talks over a new distribution deal collapsed.
CBS Corp. and AT&T Inc., which owns DirecTV, failed to reach an agreement by an 11 p.m. Pacific deadline. Without a contract in place, AT&T no longer had authorization to include CBS station signals in its television packages in more than a dozen cities, including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Sacramento.
The station signals were pulled at about 2:15 a.m. Eastern.
The outage extends to CBS'
