ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Telecommunications company GCI has resumed carrying three major TV channels after ending a months-long dispute with Alaska television network owners. An agreement was reached over the weekend and the channel blackout was lifted for GCI customers, said Josh Edge, a GCI spokesperson. GCI cable customers lost access to ABC, FOX and […]
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Telecommunications company GCI has resumed carrying three major TV channels after ending a months-long dispute with Alaska television network owners.
An agreement was reached over the weekend and the channel blackout was lifted for GCI customers, said Josh Edge, a GCI spokesperson.
GCI cable customers lost access to ABC, FOX and The CW in January, when a prior programming agreement expired, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The local operators for the three channels are Coastal Television Broadcasting and Vision Alaska.
The dispute was over how much GCI should pay the companies to carry the channels. GCI said the companies demanded to be paid more in the new contract. But Scott Centers, Coastal Television’s chief operating officer, said GCI offered them less than in prior deals.
May 25, 2021 - 9:58 AM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) â Telecommunications company GCI has resumed carrying three major TV channels after ending a months-long dispute with Alaska television network owners.
An agreement was reached over the weekend and the channel blackout was lifted for GCI customers, said Josh Edge, a GCI spokesperson.
GCI cable customers lost access to ABC, FOX and The CW in January, when a prior programming agreement expired, the Anchorage Daily News reported. The local operators for the three channels are Coastal Television Broadcasting and Vision Alaska.reported
The dispute was over how much GCI should pay the companies to carry the channels. GCI said the companies demanded to be paid more in the new contract. But Scott Centers, Coastal Television s chief operating officer, said GCI offered them less than in prior deals.
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I know Alaskans have been frustrated over the past few weeks by the interruption to programming on ABC, FOX and CW channels. We re frustrated too. GCI offers more than 300 channels to our customers, and we have a long history of wrapping up programming negotiations quickly and seamlessly. Unfortunately, not every negotiation goes as planned, and I want to make sure you know why our current negotiations with Coastal Television and Vision Alaska the two companies that own ABC, FOX and CW channels in Alaska remain unresolved.
Though GCI started negotiations in July 2020, we still have not been able to arrive at an agreement with our counterparts across the negotiating table. GCI has made almost a dozen contract proposals over the past six months. Each has been rejected, and we have remained millions of dollars apart. In late December 2020, when our FOX, ABC and CW contract was about to expire, GCI proposed a temporary extension to continue broadcasting the stations while negot