DirecTV, which is owned by AT&T, and Disney settled their contract dispute and restored service on Saturday morning. The companies reached the deal before another weekend of college football, NFL and the Emmy Awards.

Disney and DirecTV agreed to a new distribution deal, restoring ESPN, ABC and other channels for more than 10 million DirecTV and U-Verse customers.

Disney Entertainment channels went dark on DirecTV at the start of September after the sides were unable to reach a new carriage agreement.

DirecTV customers received a surprise Saturday just in time for Week 3 of college football. After a roughly two-week blackout and growing frustration from customers, DirecTV and Disney reached a deal Saturday morning that brought ESPN and other Disney-owned channels back to the pay-tv provider’s customers.

Disney and DirecTV on Saturday ended a tense contract dispute that will restore television channels including ESPN, ABC and FX to over 11 million subscribers of the satellite TV service that had lost access to those stations during a nearly two-week blackout period.

DirecTV on Saturday announced it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.

Disney and DirecTV have ended a carriage dispute that had left viewers without access to ESPN and ABC. Here's what the new deal means.

Days of missed programming ended Saturday as Disney and DirecTV reached an accord, thus ending a 13-day blackout a day before ABC was set to host the Emmys.