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.

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 their 13-day carriage impasse, restoring ABC, ESPN and 14 other networks in time for Saturday college football games and Sunday night’s Emmy telecast. While the return of linear service will come as a relief to millions of subscribers,