Jul 22, 2019
CBS pulls its programming from AT&T households
What we’re seeing is basically a game of chicken over how much AT&T owes CBS. The question is who’s going to blink first.
The CBS headquarters seen in 2013 in New York City.
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Six-and-a-half million U.S. households can’t watch CBS shows on their cable or satellite service right now, thanks to a dispute between the network and AT&T. Those homes get their TV service from AT&T’s U-verse cable service or its DirecTV satellite service. The contract between the companies expired over the weekend, and the two sides are still haggling over how much CBS’s programming — and the audience it attracts — is worth to AT&T.
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