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DIRECTV & Sunbeam Are Talking (Finally)
By Swanni

Washington, D.C. (January 18, 2012) -- There is a sliver of hope today that DIRECTV and Sunbeam might be closer to ending their fee fight which has denied the satcaster's Miami subscribers access to their local Fox station and Boston viewers access to their NBC and CW stations since Friday.

The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel reports that the two sides yesterday negotiated directly for the first time since the blackout began. In addition, Sunbeam's Miami station has made a counter-proposal to DIRECTV, the newspaper reports. It's not clear if the new proposal would cover the Boston stations as well.

The Sun-Sentinel writes that DIRECTV is expected to respond to WSVN, the Fox affiliate in Miami, by today.

The outage has been especially thorny for Sunbeam and DIRECTV with football fans in Miami upset about losing Fox's coverage of the NFL playoffs over the weekend. Boston viewers were also angry about losing NBC's broadcast of the Golden Globes awards on Sunday night.

DIRECTV claims that Sunbeam is asking for a 300 percent increase in carriage fees. DIRECTV also said Sunbeam refused its request to continue carrying the channels while negotiations continued.

However, Sunbeam's local stations in Boston and Miami said they are only asking for "fair value" for DIRECTV to carry their signals.

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