CEO Perry Sook pointed to Nexstar’s 2019 renewal with DirecTV, which was settled on August 29 of that year, ending a blackout that had begun on July 1.

Like us on Facebook. DirecTV and Channel 8’s parent company Nexstar have reached an agreement to temporarily air Channel 8 and other Nexstar television stations amid an ongoing contract dispute.

That was in 2019 when DirecTV was wholly owned by AT&T. Since then, the phone giant has spun its television distribution group into a separate entity and taken on a private equity partner, TPG, to ...