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Tribune TV stations in 19 markets such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles went dark on DirecTV at midnight March 31 when the two companies were unable to reach a final carriage deal.
The move "surprised" DirecTV, which issued a statement one day before claiming it had accepted Tribune's terms for carriage of Tribune's 23 local stations and would continue negotiations for Tribune's cable network, WGN America.
Apparently that deal (if there ever was one) fell apart in short order, so the rhetoric has gotten nasty.
Millions of DirecTV subscribers are now without programming from American Idol to Nascar and Major League Baseball, depending on the market.
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