DirecTV dropping DNS

pigman1 wrote:

Dutch_12078 wrote:
AT&T has negotiated a DNS carriage deal with Fox. Still working on the other networks...

www.multichannel.com/news/at-t-fox-strike-stelar-related-carriage-deal

So reading this link means AT&T has been BS-ing us about it being Congress's fault? It's really AT&T trying to force new contracts with individual networks and using a few small markets as levers. If this is so, any residual loyalty I might have had to AT&T just went the way of an ice cube in a hot pan.

AT&T/DTV didn't need contracts previously since STELAR gave them a blanket flat rate license for out of market carriage. With that license gone, they now have to negotiate individual contracts for each network or add the 12 DMA's they don't currently serve.