CBS channels get power outage on DirecTV and other AT & T services

CBS TV will not be broadcast on DirecTV in the cities of Boston, Los Angeles, as CBS Corporation and AT & T have pbaded the time limit to resolve their disputes.

CBS announced on Saturday that the power outage was hitting DirecTV, DirecTV Now and AT & T U-Verse customers in 17 cities – New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Tampa, Seattle, Detroit, Minneapolis, Miami, Denver, Sacramento, Pittsburgh and Baltimore – as well as more than 100 CBS stations and affiliates on DirecTV Now.

In addition, DirecTV and DirecTV Now customers across the country have lost access to the CBS sports network. Meanwhile, the Smithsonian channel has been removed from DirecTV.

The outage results from the late expiration last Friday of a contract signed with CBS-DirecTV, after the broadcaster and owner of DirecTV, AT & T, failed to reach a new distribution agreement. (Disclosure: CBS Corporation is the parent company of CNET.)

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"After months of negotiations, CBS is simply seeking fair value for its popular programming and is proposing similar economic conditions to those accepted by AT & T's competitors in hundreds of recent distribution contracts," he said. CBS in a statement.

The dispute concerns about 6.6 million subscribers of DirecTV and U-Verse platforms, according to Variety.

AT & T challenged CBS's promotion of its own online service. "CBS is a repeat offender," said AT & T in a statement, according to the Deadline report. "CBS continues to demand unprecedented increases, even though CBS is advancing the content of CBS All Access rather than its local broadcast stations."

AT & T did not immediately respond to CNET's request for comment.