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The Programming Disputes Thread

Well this is something! Frontier will lose whatever business they have left in WA and OR thanks to KATU and KOMO ditching them. I'm glad it's not another Sinclair vs. Dish...or a worst case scenario, Sinclair vs. Charter.
 
DIRECTV Could Lose 33 Stations In Fee Fight

DIRECTV could lose 33 local stations in 28 markets this weekend due to a carriage dispute with their owner, Hearst Television.

The stations, which include the ABC affiliate in Boston, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans and the NBC station in Baltimore, among many others, have started posting notices at their web sites that DIRECTV viewers could lose their signals on January 1, 2017 if a new pact is not reached.

"While we believe that we and DIRECTV can conclude our negotiations before January 1, so as not to deprive any of our respective viewers and customers of our programming, we want to advise our viewers and customers that the possibility of non-renewal of our current agreement exists," the notice states.

DIRECTV has yet to issue a comment on the talks, or the possibility of a New Year's Day blackout. By federal law, a TV provider can not carry a channel without its consent.
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http://tvpredictions.com/directv122616.htm
 
crainbebo said:
Well this is something! Frontier will lose whatever business they have left in WA and OR thanks to KATU and KOMO ditching them. I'm glad it's not another Sinclair vs. Dish...or a worst case scenario, Sinclair vs. Charter.
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Especially my home market (Traverse City-Cadillac) where Sinclair owns both ABC and NBC stations and Charter is pretty much the ONLY cable provider in the market (AcenTek, MIcom, and Sunrise do serve some very small communities). TC-C is the same market that CBS and FOX had a dispute going with Dish Network at the same time of the Sinclair vs. Dish dispute.
 
DirecTV is in a dispute with WXCW.

Dear Southwest Florida viewer,

The carriage agreement between DirecTV and WXCW-TV is set to expire on December 31st, 2016. Unfortunately, we have reached an impasse and DirecTV has refused to enter into a new carriage agreement on terms consistent with those of other pay TV companies. DirecTV’s business is to license sports, entertainment and news programs in order to resell these channels as a pay TV bundle. WXCW will always remain free over-the-air directly via an antenna throughout Southwest Florida. However, WXCW does not allow any other business to capture its signal and resell its TV shows without an appropriate fee.
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The rest of the statement is at WXCW.com.
 
The link is broken. Perhaps an agreement was made with DirecTV vs. Cox? If not, DirecTV viewers would lose WHIO, KIRO, KTVU along with others.
 
NBCU, Charter Near End-of-Year Blackout

Comcast-owned NBCUniversal said it has reached an impasse in talks with Charter Communications to extend their retransmission and cable carriage deals.

"Charter Spectrum has been unyielding in its demand for terms superior to those agreed to by the rest of the industry, including larger distributors," NBCU said in a statement.

"Given this position, we feel the responsibility to inform viewers that Charter Spectrum may drop NBCUniversal's networks at the end of the year, including NBC, Telemundo, USA, Bravo and hit shows including the #1 show on TV-Sunday Night Football, WWE, the Golden Globes, This Is Us and more," NBCU said.
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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/currency/nbcu-charter-near-end-year-blackout/162074
 
Oh great, a dispute involving my cable system. I don't think NBC itself will go away, because it's a station owned by a Spokane company (Cowles Publishing, KNDO). It probably affects Charter subs in NBC O&O markets. But USA, Bravo, etc will. I don't mind Bravo going away! The channel is dead and has been for close to 15 years.

That Cable One dispute could affect all the networks in the Greenville-MS Delta region! Everything minus PBS/Mississippi Public Television would go bye bye.
 
crainbebo said:
Oh great, a dispute involving my cable system. I don't think NBC itself will go away, because it's a station owned by a Spokane company (Cowles Publishing, KNDO). It probably affects Charter subs in NBC O&O markets. But USA, Bravo, etc will. I don't mind Bravo going away! The channel is dead and has been for close to 15 years.

That Cable One dispute could affect all the networks in the Greenville-MS Delta region! Everything minus PBS/Mississippi Public Television would go bye bye.
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Since both Charter and Time Warner are now under the Spectrum branding, I'm wondering if Time Warner will be affected by the NBC cable network blackout as well. I'm especially concerned about losing the news and information channels owned by the corporation, like MSNBC, CNBC and the Weather Channel. My dad would miss seeing the Golf Channel and my mom would miss seeing reruns of SVU on USA. And I'm wondering if Ion Television stations like WVPX in Akron would be affected as well (Blue Bloods is another one of my mom's favorites).

Between this and other issues with TWC, we've been wanting to switch to AT&T U-Verse, but apparently it's only available in certain areas of Northeast Ohio, and Medina County is not in their coverage area. Between frequent Internet outages (although they typically only last for about a minute at a time), frequent unavailability of digital cable channels on our boxes (messages that would read "GSN (for example) is currently unavailable, please try again later") and now this, I'm starting to get tired of TWC. Some of my relatives who live closer to Cleveland have U-Verse and they seem to have more channels than TWC, as well as more recording space on DVRs.

On the other hand, though, U-Verse has its downfalls as well, in my opinion. I've heard mixed reviews about their Internet service (some saying its slower than TWC), plus TWC Sports Channel obviously isn't available (high school and college sports from my alma maters). And I'm not sure if digital multicast networks in our area (Justice Network, Laff, Antenna TV, MeTV, Movies!, etc.) are even available on U-Verse, although I know H&I and Qubo are part of the lineup.
 
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