The weeks-long standoff between Altitude Sports and three major television distributors may be thawing.

Altitude COO Matt Hutchings said there’s been “positive activity” in recent days involving one of the big three distributors. He did not clarify which one of Comcast, DirecTV or Dish Network was involved in the talks.

All three saw its contracts with Altitude expire more than a month ago, with the Colorado Avalanche now two weeks into its regular season schedule and the Nuggets’ home opener fast approaching on Oct. 25.

“We are in active conversations with a company, which is good because I’ve said before it’s been hard to get some good faith engagement,” Hutchings said. “We’re cautiously optimistic because we don’t want to get everybody fired up and then have things change. The good news is we are talking to a group.”

Hutchings said it could potentially be a long-term solution.

“It’s real-time,” Hutchings said of negotiations. “It’s every day (the sides are talking), through the weekend. It’s because this is our highest priority. … We need to get to the table and we want to get to the table and we want to get the dialogue going with these carriers and we need to get them to get the games back because they control it. They control when these games can get back on the air, that’s the bottom line.”