DirecTV and Disney have reached a deal that brings Disney’s ESPN and other channels back to the pay-tv provider’s customers after a roughly two week blackout.
On Saturday, DirecTV and Disney said they reached a deal that called for “market based terms” on pricing.
DirecTV will be able to offer Disney’s streaming services in its packages and a la carte, the company said in a release Saturday.
The amount of customers DirecTV lost during the dispute was not “immaterial,” said DirecTV Chief Marketing Officer Vince Torres at Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia & Technology Conference on Thursday.
DirecTV offered its customers a $30 credit, financed by stopping payments to Disney as soon as the blackout began, Torres said.
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