Unless an agreement is reached, a segment of local television viewers in Indianapolis will lose access to their local ABC Television Network affiliate at 8pm Monday evening (8/24).
With hours to go before the current carriage agreement, negotiated by the station’s previous owner, expires, there’s a slim chance a new deal will surface. The expected “blackout,” by law, of WRTV-6 in Indianapolis would become the third of Circle City; Broadcasting‘s trio of TV stations unavailable to DirecTV subscribers.
With the direct broadcast satellite service provider clear in its views regarding retransmission consent and “fair value,” Circle City’s owner — DuJuan McCoy — has been equally vigilant in his desire to get what he thinks WRTV, and his two other stations, are worth.
