NFL Network is back on Xfinity TV, after a carriage dispute between the NFL and Comcast blacked out the channel on the No. 1 U.S. pay TV provider for a brief period on Monday.
“We have renewed our agreement with the NFL Network,” Comcast said in a terse statement. “At this time, all content has been restored, and you are able to access NFL Network programming as normal.”
According to the Sports Business Journal, the dispute revolved around the very basic, core matter of carriage pricing. And with the NFL Draft out of the way and the regular season four months away, there was a consensus belief that the blackout might drag on for a bit.
However, SBJ said the kerfuffle was settled at the highest levels, with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell lobbing a call to Comcast chairman and CEO Brian Roberts on Monday to work things out.
Comcast lost a record 614,000 pay TV customers in the first quarter and now has a remaining linear base of 15.528 million subs.
