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The Programming Disputes Thread

crainbebo said:
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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I don't believe Comcast ever credited back people's accounts when Yes was gone for 18 months.
 
We were never credited when KCYU was dropped for 4 months in the NW Broadcasting vs. Spectrum fight. We just dumped them and went down to antenna for the rest of 2018. Got hooked up with DIRECTV a few days before New Year's Eve. We get over 170 channels for a slightly cheaper price than Spectrum and their *70* channel expanded basic. Plus free HBO/Showtime/Cinemax/Starz for 3 months. How 'bout that. Watched 'Ocean's 8' last night on the HBO Saturday Night Premiere! Basically Spectrum TV can kiss my boompah.
 
From John Doe on the 506 Forums:

WGN America is back on my Spectrum cable, but WREG Memphis is not only not back on, it isn't even listed on the DVR channel guide or the channel lineup for my address on the Spectrum website now.

I asked at the local office and was told they're trying to get it back on but don't know when it will be. I have my doubts.
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http://506sports.com/forum/index.php?topic=11929.msg1134784#msg1134784

This is because John Doe lives in the Jackson TN DMA which has its own CBS (WBBJ-DT3). Doesn't make sense to re-add WREG.
 
I'm not sure where this is happening. I live in Alamo and we get the same lineup as Jackson, and WREG and it's subchannels are on. But we're considered to be in the Memphis DMA, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
 
anotherguy said:
I'm not sure where this is happening. I live in Alamo and we get the same lineup as Jackson, and WREG and it's subchannels are on. But we're considered to be in the Memphis DMA, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
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John Doe's profile says he lives in McKenzie TN (Carroll County; but close to two other DMAs).
 
unclehonkey said:
One of the smaller disputes (3 networks 4 stations)
United Communications stations off Directv

KEYC Mankato, MN (CBS & FOX)
WWNY (CBS) & WNYF (FOX) Watertown, NY

http://www.keyc.com/story/39744647/directv-viewer-information
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back on as of an hour ago per an email


KEYC News 12 & FOX 12 Mankato Returning to DirecTV Lineup

A contract dispute between DirecTV and the owner of KEYC News 12 has been resolved.

Just before 2:00 PM on Sunday, January 20, United Communications Corporation, owner of KEYC News 12 and FOX 12 Mankato and DirecTV reached an agreement to return the stations to the local channel line-up.

The stations were removed on Monday, January 7 after an agreement couldn't be reached following the expiration of a contract at the end of December.

The two parties continued negotiations following the removal of the channels.

DirecTV says the stations should be restored within a half an hour of the agreement.

United Communications Corporations President and CEO Lucy Brown thanks viewers for their patience during the negotiations.

The outage also affected United Communications CBS and FOX affiliate WWNY/WNYF in Watertown, New York.

--KEYC NEWS 12
 
https://www.lightreading.com/video/...ng-patents-suit-/d/d-id/749120?_mc=RSS_LR_EDT

Dish Network files lawsuit against Univision over patents.

The carriage dispute between Dish Network and Univision just took a nasty turn.

Dish Network LLC (Nasdaq: DISH), which has blacked out several Univision-run channels after failing to reach a new distribution deal with the programmer, has lobbed a lawsuit at Univision claiming that the Spanish-language broadcaster is infringing a batch of patents tied to adaptive bit-rate streaming.

Dish's suit, filed January 25 with the US District Court for the District of Delaware, is asserting the following individual and follow-on/continuation US patents:

No. 9,071,668 -- Apparatus, system and method for multi-bitrate content streaming.
No. 9,407,564 -- Apparatus, system and method for adaptive-rate shifting of streaming content.
No. 7,818,444 -- Apparatus, system and method for adaptive-rate shifting of streaming content.
No. 8,402,156 -- Apparatus, system and method for multi-bitrate content streaming.
Move Networks, the adaptive bit-rate startup acquired by Dish/EchoStar in 2011 for $45 million, was the original owner of the patents asserted in the lawsuit. Those technologies are designed to reduce or eliminate buffering by adjusting video bit-rates and resolutions for different screen types and to account for fluctuations in the quality of the user's broadband connection. Dish Technologies has an exclusive license with Sling TV, Dish's OTT-TV service, for this group of patents. (See Dish Makes Its Adaptive Streaming Move and EchoStar Buys Move Networks.)

Dish claims that apps and OTT-delivered live TV and VoD services from Univision, Univision Deportes and UniMás -- including Univision Now, a direct-to-consumer subscription OTT service that sells for $9.99 per month -- are infringing on Dish's batch of streaming patents.
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http://www.cablefax.com/distribution/channel-drops-pick-up-while-some-nets-find-shelter

An editorial on TV Contract disputes

Do Blackouts Matter Any More? Maybe not… DirecTV has been without Fox affil KTTW for a month now. That’s nothing. Mediacom has been without Sioux Falls-based KTTW, owned by Independent Communications, for more than two years.

With rising programming costs, there’s long been an argument that a day of reckoning is coming. The day may be upon us as DISH enters month eight without Univision and its fourth month without HBO. Verizon and Comcast both booted Fuse at year-end. Nervous investors are watching to see what happens with DirecTV-Viacom negotiations this year. Buried in Charter’s annual report is some language that should make programmers nervous. After warning that there’s a “higher concentration of programming costs” set to expire in, or before the end, 2019, Charter adds that if it can’t reach reasonable terms, it may be forced to remove channels.

“It certainly feels as though we’ve reached a turning point,” MoffettNathanson’s Craig Moffett told Cablefax . “Programmers are raising prices not because value is rising, but instead because costs are rising, and they need higher prices to offset weaker advertising and audience metrics. Distributors are becoming emboldened to push back not because they have more insight into what is and isn’t worth paying for, but instead because video is getting to be less and less profitable, so there is, perversely, less and less at stake. The business model is starting to unravel.”

And yet there are still some new linear deals getting done. The largest cable operators—Charter and Comcast—agreed to launch TV One’s new Cleo TV. Crown Media Family Networks has secured deals with Cox, DISH, Altice USA and others for its just over one-year-old Hallmark Drama. And Newsmax is racing toward 80mln homes by year-end—especially impressive considering it didn’t ramp up its carriage quest until about 2016. What’s not clear is the terms of these deals, including whether there is an affiliate fee attached or launch initiatives in place.
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crainbebo said:
If not for evil SyndEx, we would gain Q13 Fox or Fox 12 Portland right now...
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no you wouldn't. Satellite can't import a different affiliate unless there is not one licensed there to begin with. So as example in Mankato, MN (which is just KEYC CBS & FOX) satellite can import KSTP ABC and KARE NBC from Minneapolis. When KEYC got dropped from Directv recently satellite folks only had KSTP, KARE, WUCW (CW Mpls) and national PBS.

Cable has old rules on what they can carry. Thats why on Spectrum in Mankato you get all the Minneapolis stations (except WUCW and KSTC Independent), KAAL ABC and KSMQ PBS Austin/Rochester, MN along with KEYC CBS & FOX.
 
KTTW Sioux Falls returns to Mediacom after being pulled in OCTOBER 2016!!

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/231280/kttw-returning-mediacom-communications/

Mediacom Communications today announced it has reached an agreement with Independent Communications for the carriage of its Fox affiliate KTTW Sioux Falls, S.D. (DMA 115).

KTTW will be added to the channel lineup of all Mediacom video customers living within the Sioux Falls television market.

KTTW has been off Mediacom since October 2016.
 
unclehonkey said:
no you wouldn't. Satellite can't import a different affiliate unless there is not one licensed there to begin with. So as example in Mankato, MN (which is just KEYC CBS & FOX) satellite can import KSTP ABC and KARE NBC from Minneapolis. When KEYC got dropped from Directv recently satellite folks only had KSTP, KARE, WUCW (CW Mpls) and national PBS.

Cable has old rules on what they can carry. Thats why on Spectrum in Mankato you get all the Minneapolis stations (except WUCW and KSTC Independent), KAAL ABC and KSMQ PBS Austin/Rochester, MN along with KEYC CBS & FOX.
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For example, if Dish Network were to get into a dispute with Sinclair, Alpena would get an alternate NBC (as Alpena doesn't have an NBC affiliate of its own and the NBC affiliate imported (WEYI) is Sinclair-owned).

Also, PBS isn't subject to the cable rules AFAIK, which explains how in many markets, the PBS member has the most OOM cable carriage
 
ftballfan said:
For example, if Dish Network were to get into a dispute with Sinclair, Alpena would get an alternate NBC (as Alpena doesn't have an NBC affiliate of its own and the NBC affiliate imported (WEYI) is Sinclair-owned).
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and thats the ONLY example of how a market can get a different affiliate if there is a dispute.....Mankato went through it when Dish yanked Tegna (KARE 11 NBC)....but in typical Dish (cheapness) fashion, they dont give you a near affiliate...they give you some random one. So Mankato got WOWT Omaha instead of say KTTC Rochester, MN

Also, PBS isn't subject to the cable rules AFAIK, which explains how in many markets, the PBS member has the most OOM cable carriage
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If there is no PBS in a market they get the national version on satellite. Cable can have multiple PBS out of market stations. Mankato has KTCA Minneapolis and KSMQ Austin/Rochester, MN
 
looks like AT&T & Viacom are about to a nasty prolong dispute as the Viacom owned networks will be removed on Friday if no new agreement is reached between now and Friday, and Viacom is in full "Propaganda" mode attacking AT&T in their dispute related ads. and already have the keepviacom.com site up and they are basally saying in the site that AT&T's post-TimeWarner merger seems to make it favorable for a nasty long term dispute, let's hope this does last for many years like the SuddenLink/Viacom dispute lasted.

https://deadline.com/2019/03/viacom-warns-customers-of-directv-blackout-chance-ahead-of-friday-deadline-1202578534/
 
Byron Allen doing it again pulling the race card so that cable systems have to out his programming in. Sheesh. He's not exactly Tyler Perry or Lee Daniels; his shows are subpar. At least The Weather Channel was untouched and is still fine. This is still a sleazy and perverse way to be on cable systems (which are already in trouble by streaming taking their business away).
 


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