Diversified Communications-owned TV stations in Maine and Florida said they're open to...
Diversified Communications-owned TV stations in Maine and Florida said they're open to reaching agreements with DirecTV to restore their signals back to the DBS company’s subscribers. WCJB-TV (ABC) Gainesville, Fla., and WABI-TV (CBS) Bangor, Maine, stopped broadcasting for DirecTV customers…
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June 4 when a retransmission consent agreement couldn’t be reached (CD June 7 p18). On its website, (http://xrl.us/bncdcx), WCJB said it’s continuing to work toward a mutually beneficial agreement with DirecTV. WABI “will consent to an agreement that fairly benefits all parties involved,” it said in an automated phone message to viewers. Diversified and WABI “chose to ... make this discussion public by removing their stations without any need or provocation,” DirecTV said in a written statement. The DBS company said it’s willing to compensate Diversified fairly, “but brinksmanship and misspent threats are not the foundation for a productive relationship."