Updated at 7:25am Eastern
An agreement wasn’t expected, and as the 8pm Eastern hour began on August 24, a segment of local television viewers in Indianapolis lost access to their local ABC Television Network affiliate. The reason? It’s all about the escalating disagreement between MVPDs and broadcast TV companies over what amounts to fair compensation in a retransmission consent accord.
With hours to go before the previous carriage agreement, negotiated by the station’s previous owner, expired, an expected “blackout,” by law, of WRTV-6 in Indianapolis transpired.
With the lack of a fresh accord, WRTV become the third of Circle City Broadcasting‘s trio of TV stations to become unavailable to DirecTV subscribers.
