Tegna, AT&T-DirecTV Strike Retrans Deal

Tegna has struck a multi-year retrans deal with AT&T U-verse and co-owned DirecTV for 46 TV stations.

Tegna (formerly Gannett) reaches about one-third of TV households, according to the company, which announced the deal early this morning.

There no station blackouts in the run-up to the deal.

Tegna stations had warned customers late Friday (Dec. 4)that they could have lost access to NFL football and SEC college football , among other programming, starting at midnight. Tegna recently struck a multi-year deal with DirecTV competitor Dish.

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.