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The Programming Disputes Thread

RadioPatrol said:
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/mobile/index/article/id/108251

Update KFVE Hawaii is in a contract dispute with Directv. That's interesting KFVE is owned by American Spirit Media but Raycom produces newscasts for KFVE though. Raycom actually owns KGMB and KHNL the NBC and CBS affiliates in Hawaii.
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American Spirit buys stations then lets Raycom run them. Its the same thing in Lake Charles, Louisiana. KVHP (FOX) owned by American Spirit. KPLC (NBC) Raycom owns. In fact recently Raycom pulled the CW from KVHP and put it on its own station then added ABC (which was absent from the market) to KVHP
 
Yes it has been close to a month now that Fox 40 WDBD in Jackson, Miss. has been pulled off of DirectTV by good old American Spirit Media. And it is run by Raycom which owns WLBT 3, the NBC affiliate. It looks like it is not going to end soon. I miss the NFL on Fox.
 
Switch providers then another big conglomerate asks for $$$, and those channels go off the new provider. It's a Catch-22 in any case for your cable networks and local stations. The only source of television with no programming disputes is over-the-air with an antenna!
 
mvcg66b3r said:
CBS in a dispute with DISH, unknown deadline.

Site from CBS http://www.keepcbsondish.com

This affects CBS and CW O&Os, Showtime, CBS Sports Network and Smithsonian Channel.
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Interestingly in Solano County, CA there are 4 CBS Stations that cover that county. Vacaville and Dixon CBS is covered via KOVR and KMAX.
In Vallejo and Benicia KPiX and KBCW covers that part of the county. If Dish Network cuts the contract to CBS then you will have one county in California that will lose 4 TV stations managed by CBS. But if you have All-Access by CBS you can bypass the dispute though.
 
supposed drop dead time is tomorrow night at Midnight Mountain for CBS/Dish

CBS would very much like to avoid going dark, but unless an agreement is reached our viewers should be prepared to lose CBS from their DISH systems on November 20th at 11:59 PM/Mountain Time.
 
DISH, By Law, Cuts CBS Amid Retrans Row

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The spin cycle is set to high, but no matter how you look at it, DISH subscribers are in the dark if they want to tune to CBS O&Os, several affiliates of The CW, and three specialty networks.

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CBS O&O's gone from Dish

http://keepcbsondish.com/

Effective 11:59 PM/AM, MT/1:59 AM, ET, DISH has dropped CBS and several other local television stations owned by CBS, in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, Tampa, Detroit, Minneapolis, Miami, Denver, Sacramento, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. In addition, CBS Sports Network, Pop and the Smithsonian Channel have been dropped.
 
So there goes KSTW in Seattle, plus all of the O&Os in the major markets. Probably a lot of pi$$ed off people today in New York and L.A especially.
 
crainbebo said:
So there goes KSTW in Seattle, plus all of the O&Os in the major markets. Probably a lot of pi$$ed off people today in New York and L.A especially.
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Solano County ,CA is in a more interesting situation because there are 4 TV station that are owned by CBS. Note the west side of Solano County like Vallejo and Benicia are covered by CBS owned stations KPIX and CW affiliate/CBS secondary KBCW San Francisco. On the East Side of Solano county like Vacaville and Dixon its the Sacramento CBS O&O's KOVR and CW affiliate/CBS secondary KMAX that covers that side of the county. The Dish dispute is going to be interesting here though given that CBS happen to have 1 county with 4 TV stations that happened to be owned by CBS because Solano county is a split market.
 
crainbebo said:
So there goes KSTW in Seattle, plus all of the O&Os in the major markets. Probably a lot of pi$$ed off people today in New York and L.A especially.
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Dish Network doesn't have very many subscribers in the New York market. I think they basically gave up on NYC after dropping all of their RSNs a few years ago.
 


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