{"id":438287,"date":"2010-03-17T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003358"},"modified":"2010-03-17T00:27:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:27:06","slug":"directv-viewers-get-versus-channel-back-probably-didnt-notice-it-was-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/438287","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Viewers Get Versus Channel Back, Probably Didn&#8217;t Notice It Was Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/hockey-thumb-158x143-38245.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>In case you are a DirecTV customer and missed NHL and Mountain West Conference college sports games that weren&#8217;t good enough to be picked up by ESPN, you&#8217;ll be glad to know that the sports channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versus.com\/press-center\/directv-and-versus-reach-carriage-agreement\/\">Versus is once again available for your viewing pleasure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reconciliation marks the end of a feud that dates to September 1, when the sides couldn&#8217;t agree on a contract renewal. From the DirecTV press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are pleased that both sides were able to work out a satisfactory deal to bring this programming back to our customers,&#8221; said Derek Chang, executive vice president, Content Strategy and Development, DIRECTV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re excited that we were able to come to a fair agreement that puts VERSUS back in millions of homes with DIRECTV in time for our busy spring programming schedule,&#8221; said Jamie Davis, president of VERSUS. &#8220;We look forward to super-serving these fans with NHL regular-season and playoff coverage, our first live UFC event and much more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Translation: We beat you down, Versus, so don&#8217;t act the diva again or we&#8217;ll boot you off the system for several months again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versus.com\/press-center\/directv-and-versus-reach-carriage-agreement\/\">DirecTV And Versus Reach Carriage Agreement<\/a> [DirecTV]<br \/>\n<i>(Thanks DJ-DIGITAL!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you are a DirecTV customer and missed NHL and Mountain West Conference college sports games that weren&#8217;t good enough to be picked up by ESPN, you&#8217;ll be glad to know that the sports channel Versus is once again available for your viewing pleasure. The reconciliation marks the end of a feud that dates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}