WAPA Back on DirecTV

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

WAPA TV and WAPA Deportes are back on DIRECTV Puerto Rico.

That is according to a representative of the broadcaster, who said the two sides have reached a multi-year agreement to end their retransmission consent dispute.

The channels had been off DirecTV since May 4 after they could not agree to a renewal.

"WAPA has been Puerto Rico's ratings leader for nine consecutive years, and we're pleased to have reached a new agreement with DirecTV," said Alan J. Sokol, president of WAPA owner Hemisphere Media. "We have a longstanding relationship with WAPA and WAPA Deportes in service of the local Puerto Rico community, " said Juan Davila, VP and GM of AT&T Puerto Rico/USVI (AT&T owns DirecTV).

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.