DirecTV’s carriage agreement with Versus will end on Aug. 31 and the satcaster has informed their subscribers that the sports cable network will be removed from the DirecTV programming. Comcast owned sports network reaches about 75 million homes in U.S and DirecTV, which has more than 24 million subscribers, holds a key distributor of the channel.
NHL has recently announced its regular season schedule and the league’s main television partner in the United States is to carry 54 games from Oct.1, but DirecTV subscribers might not have access to those games. The Dispute between DirecTV and Versus lies on carriage fees.
DirecTV says “Versus is asking for terms which do not reflect the market and which they are not asking of all other distributors. DIRECTV wants to keep your monthly fees low, so it’s doing everything it can to avoid paying exorbitant programming fees.”
DirecTV has stated that it’s negotiating with Versus for settling the issue, if a settlement is not reached before Aug. 31 Versus channel will be removed from the DirecTV programming lineup.
Note: DirecTV carries both standard and high-definition feeds of Versus.
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