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The Programming Disputes Thread

Maybe they meant Hartland? Northwest Hartford County, on the MA border?

Fortunately, channel 20 (CW) and 61 (FOX) are two of my four strongest signals at my old place in New Britain. You can't miss the Rattlesnake Mountain tower they come off of in Farmington. It also has PBS channel 24 on it. NBC 30 is on the other tower right next to them.
 
KML-224 said:
Maybe they meant Hartland? Northwest Hartford County, on the MA border?

Fortunately, channel 20 (CW) and 61 (FOX) are two of my four strongest signals at my old place in New Britain. You can't miss the Rattlesnake Mountain tower they come off of in Farmington. It also has PBS channel 24 on it. NBC 30 is on the other tower right next to them.
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I believe New Haven is also Comcast. I don't understand the listings on their website.
 
CTListener said:
Can viewers get Spectrum over-the-top -- via Internet -- in areas that it does not have the cable franchise?
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Spectrum is available to subscribers through Roku and online, possibly on other streaming boxes. I've checked and WGN America and WREG and their subchannels are blocked there as well. I meant to mention in earlier post that WREG also has Antenna TV and the their 24 hour news channel. Which reminds me is since Antenna TV is owned by Tribune is it being affected at stations that carry it but aren't owned by Tribune?
 
@DON CT: Yes. New Haven and Middletown were the original two Comcast franchises in the state. Long before New Britain and Hartford ever had them.
 
Expect for a couple pockets of greater Los Angeles that are served by Cox Cable, the entire L.A market is served by Spectrum. Including the other surrounding markets (Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, Palm Springs, Yuma/El Centro, and San Diego), all of Southern California is served by either Cox or Spectrum. San Diego is also affected because Tribune owns the local Fox affiliate, KSWB; virtually everything from Fresno on north to the Oregon border is virtually Comcast Xfinity, and the other only Tribune-owned station in California is KTXL (Fox) in Sacramento.
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...ckouts-keeps-up-spectrum-tribune-feud-1174201


Here is an overview of contract disputes as of 2019

. The American Television Alliance, which usually supports the cable industry over broadcasters, says Tribune blacked out 6 million Spectrum customers beginning Jan. 2, and it also affected 14 million consumers by yanking its WGN America signal. "The blackout impacted pro football games over the weekend," the group said Monday in a statement.

"The New Year is always a favorite blackout target for broadcasters but this is by far the worst it's ever been," said Trent Duffy, the group's spokesman.

Just seven days into the year, there have already been 26 blackouts in 2019, according to Duffy, while in the entirety of 2018 there were 164 blackouts. In all of 2010, there were only eight blackouts, but that number has headed north ever since.

The group also noted that the Golden Globes viewership took a hit on Sunday due to a blackout in New York because TDS, a small cable operator, is still negotiating a deal with Nexstar Media Group. The old arrangement expired on New Year's Eve.

Another feud the group highlighted on Monday is one involving Lilly Broadcasting and Viya, the only cable TV service in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Their failure to come to terms caused a blackout of both ABC and CBS beginning a couple of days ago.

"Since 2010, millions of Americans have seen dark screens instead of watching their favorite channels due to more than 1,000 broadcaster-initiated blackouts," according to the American Television Alliance. "In the 10-year period between 2008-2018, retransmission fees collected by broadcasters went from about $500 million to $10.1 billion, an increase of 1,920 percent."
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Good. Too much time for people to miss their Fox or CW stations. In the real world, Charter should be forced to credit every Tribune subscriber for the loss of programming.
 


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