As of midnight on Dec. 31, 2016, DirecTV no longer carries news channel KCCI, Des Moines’ CBS affiliate, impacting Channel 8.

Despite multiple negotiation efforts by Hearst Television, parent company of KCCI, they were unable to achieve a new carriage agreement with DirecTV. Regardless, Hearst Television is still working to renew the carriage agreement.

In an online statement, KCCI President and General Manager Brian Sather briefly explained the difficulties of attempting a new deal with DirecTV.

In the past, Hearst Television has successfully been able to achieve agreements with cable companies and other satellite distributors.

According to Sather, the team was pushing for KCCI to allow DirecTV to carry the stations below market rates.

“[This] is neither fair nor reasonable given the significant investments we have made to deliver top tier programming to our viewers,” Sather said in the statement.

He also mentioned that the station is not ‘blacked out’ and that it is still available “for free, over the air, and, where available, from your local cable or satellite operators.”

Those wishing to continue viewing the station can determine the necessary type of antenna at http://www.antennaweb.org/.

“We regret the inconvenience DirecTV’s demands have imposed on its subscribers,” Sather said in the same statement, “and we will keep you fully informed of developments.”

In another statement, Hearst Television says they “expect fair compensation from any business that seeks to profit from our service and valuable programming.”

Their negotiating team worked through the holiday weekend to work towards a negotiation, but to no avail, saying they’ve “been thwarted by what appears to be a strategy of unrealistic proposals and outright delay by a national distributor that does not seek to serve their subscribers or local communities.”

But AT&T, owner of DirecTV, is working to reach a new agreement and instead casts blame on Hearst Television for the impasse, according to officials in a statement to the Des Moines Register.

AT&T says Hearst Television prevents some homes from receiving transmissions unless a fee increase takes place, even though the shows are available for free on channel 8 or streamed by CBS.

Spokesman Mike Giga said that they share the viewer’s frustrations and hope to finish negotiations soon.