Viacom accused DirecTV of having no intention to resolve the two week old standoff that has caused Viacom to remove its channels, which include TNA Impact Wrestling airing SpikeTV, from the satellite company. Viacom went so far as to say DirecTV has, "moved backwards significantly and created more obstacles to reaching an agreement." DirectTV insists they have agreed to an offer from Viacom to restore the 17 channels that were pulled, but Viacom insists on including the EPIX channel, which DirecTV claims will cost them half a billion dollars. You can read more at http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/18/technology/directv-viacom/?source=cnn_bin.

Shore's Slant: Wow, color me surprised. I would have thought this would have been long over by now. Could we see the next major pay television shakeup over this? One thing is almost certain, those of you with DirecTV will not be seeing Impact Wrestling on your television tomorrow.

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