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DirecTV Rejects Disney Offer To Restore ABC News Tonight Only For POTUS Debate – Update
No POTUS Debate Blackout As Disney Restores ABC News On DirecTV
(L-R) Kamala Harris, Donald TrumpRobert Gauthier / Bill Pugliano / Getty Images / DirecTV / Disney “As we announced in May, the ABC News presidential debate will be widely available across broadcast, cable and streaming,” a Mouse House spokesperson told Deadline this morning, just hours before the candidates meet up in Philadelphia. Although we have yet to reach an agreement, we are providing a three-hour feed of ABC News coverage to all impacted DirecTV customers at no cost because we want all Americans to be able to view tonight’s debate at this important moment in our history. The debate itself is being held several blocks away, at the National Constitution Center, sealed off by a security perimeter that takes up about half of Independence Mall.
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