{"id":1211173,"date":"2023-03-17T12:13:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T17:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1211173"},"modified":"2023-03-18T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T20:59:36","slug":"nexstar-sued-by-directv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1211173","title":{"rendered":"Nexstar sued by DIRECTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Untitled-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1211178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Untitled-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Untitled-175x175.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Untitled.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>IRVING (KRLD) &#8211; A Texas-based company that owns local TV stations across the country is being sued by DIRECTV. The lawsuit accuses Irving-based Nexstar Broadcasting and two other companies of improperly working together to set prices that local TV stations charge satellite companies to carry those stations. DIRECTV&#8217;s lawsuit claims that has led to some of those stations being blocked from their service &#8212; including stations in Amarillo, Tyler, Lubbock, Abilene, Midland-Odessa, and Wichita Falls. The Tyler station is our news partner KETK.  A statement from Nexstar says the lawsuit is &#8220;without merit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRVING (KRLD) &#8211; A Texas-based company that owns local TV stations across the country is being sued by DIRECTV. The lawsuit accuses Irving-based Nexstar Broadcasting and two other companies of improperly working together to set prices that local TV stations charge satellite companies to carry those stations. DIRECTV&#8217;s lawsuit claims that has led to some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1211173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nexstar sued by DIRECTV<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1211181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Untitled-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Nexstar sued by DIRECTV","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 15:22:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/03\/Untitled-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Nexstar sued by DIRECTV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211179,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211173\/revisions\/1211179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}