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The Programming Disputes Thread

crainbebo said:
Well, goodbye Spectrum TV service. When I call this week to pay my bill, I will have them shut off my television and we are going to just antenna. I'm keeping the internet and phone of course (even if they increase the prices because I don't have the triple play...), but Spectrum can shove it up their rears. 115 days without Fox!!!
That means goodbye cable channels, whatever. They show the same reality shows and movies over and over with mass amounts of commercials. I'll miss a few of the mainstays, and the Flix/Movieplex channels, but I didn't care about 40 or 50 of those cable channels. We've got the major networks, MeTV, Comet TV and Charge! to keep us occupied. Not to mention DVDs, Redbox rentals and the occasional VHS tapes. It will save us some $$$ (our apartment doesn't allow satellite dishes).
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Have you ever thought about trying an IPTV live streaming service, such as Sling, PlayStation Vue, Hulu or YouTube TV to use in conjunction with your antenna? Those are all basically cheaper cable alternatives that have most of the bigger cable channels available for a cheaper price than most local cable companies. If I were to choose one of those services, I would probably want to choose Sling. Pro: it has the most channels of the four services, including the Viacom and A&E-owned networks, which the other services do not have. Con: it's slightly pricier than the other three (although still much cheaper than Spectrum). You would need either a streaming box such as Roku or a streaming stick such as Amazon Fire TV in order to utilize such services.
 
None of them carry the Yakima locals, I don't think. It's way cheaper going down to OTA and actually getting more stuff done around the house...
 
https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/wapa-back-on-directv

Update on WAPA and AT&T

WAPA TV and WAPA Deportes are back on DIRECTV Puerto Rico.

That is according to a representative of the broadcaster, who said the two sides have reached a multi-year agreement to end their retransmission consent dispute.

The channels had been off DirecTV since May 4 after they could not agree to a renewal.

"WAPA has been Puerto Rico's ratings leader for nine consecutive years, and we're pleased to have reached a new agreement with DirecTV," said Alan J. Sokol, president of WAPA owner Hemisphere Media. "We have a longstanding relationship with WAPA and WAPA Deportes in service of the local Puerto Rico community, " said Juan Davila, VP and GM of AT&T Puerto Rico/USVI (AT&T owns DirecTV).
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Univision Warns DISH Subscribers On Potential Access Cut-Off In Carriage Dispute

Univision Communications Inc. is locked in a carriage dispute with DISH Network, and today began alerting the satellite service’s subscribers that they may soon lose access.

The UCI carriage dispute with DISH is not its first rodeo in this type of negotiations. The company previously engaged in carriage battles with Verizon FiOS and Charter Cable in recent years, actually going dark on FiOS in October 2017. This latest dispute appears headed down a similar path.
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https://deadline.com/2018/06/univis...ccess-cut-off-in-carriage-dispute-1202416310/
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/...com-leaving-tunein-to-be-exclusively-on-radio

Now contract issues has hit internet radio with the Entercom owned stations cutting off the broadcast contract with Tunein for Radio.com. This is Entercom's way of boosting listeners to the radio.com app according to the article. Note Entercom will shut down streams from Tunein from July to August.
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i predict in a year from now, Radio.com flops and Entercom has no choice but join the list of rival radio companies to join forces with iHeartMedia to stream on the IHeartRadio app.
 
https://www.fiercecable.com/cable/n...carolina-becomes-latest-retrains-battleground

The pay TV industry is using an isolated blackout of a CBS affiliate on a small South Carolina cable operator as the latest battleground in their quest to slow rising broadcast retransmission fee growth.

According to Hory County, South Carolina, operator HTC, Nexstar has threatened to pull CBS affiliate WBTW-TV, along with its MyNetworkTV component, off the cable company’s video service on Saturday if a new retransmission deal isn’t carved out.

This brought out the big rhetorical guns of the American Television Alliance, with the org spokesman putting out a statement yesterday urging Nexstar to “return to the negotiating table and come to a reasonable agreement that doesn’t gouge customers.”

Duffy added that, “In the long term, we need Congress and the FCC to fix this, because broadcaster blackouts are at record highs and TV customers are being exploited.”

In its own rhetoric, HTC noted Kagan statistics predicting that retransmission costs will spike to $11.6 billion by 2022.
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Nexstar is in a contract dispute with HTC
 
When Univision and Charter had a dispute last year, they were pulled off here for just a few hours no less, even though it's Sinclair. So I think EVERY Univision station is off Dish.
 
It was only a day that Univision was gone from Charter I know they were in a dispute over fees it went to the courts I wonder if both sides ended the dispute or if it's still in the courts. I don't care since I don't know a lick of Spanish.
 
Raycom is in a dispute with Charter Spectrum; their stations could be dropped on Thursday. I saw this on a scroll while watching WMC.
 
DirecTV has now entered a contract dispute with WeatherNation TV by removing them from the lineup as of Midnight ET tonight July 31st or should i say this morning August 1st.


in WeatherNation's place is the new AccuWeather Network.

this looks to be a permanent dispute as WeatherNation's press release states they shocked DirecTV had opted not to renew the contract and drop them from the lineup.

WeatherNation's press release in this link:
http://www.weathernationtv.com/weathernation-no-longer-available-directv-august-1/
 


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