After a nearly two-week-long blackout of popular Disney channels, DirecTV and Disney have reached a deal that'll bring ESPN, ABC, FX and more channels back to the satellite TV provider’s roughly 11 million customers nationwide.
The end of the impasse comes in time for sports fans to catch ESPN's latest slate of college football games as well as ABC's telecast of the Emmy Awards scheduled for Sunday evening. Disney's networks went dark for DirecTV customers on September 1 after the companies failed to reach an agreement on fees and bundle structures. The blackout left roughly 11 million viewers unable to watch the first two Monday Night Football games this season on ESPN, the U.S. Open, and the ABC News presidential debate through their satellite TV subscriptions.
