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The Programming Disputes Thread


The Federal Communications Commission has denied the must-carry complaint of WGBP Opelika, Alabama (licensed to Columbus, Georgia), against DirecTV, but signaled the station can qualify for carriage next time around.

There are three-year cycles for must-carry elections, but a new station can file for must-carry without having to wait for a new cycle.

WGBP was already being carried in Columbus by DirecTV in September 2020 when Nielsen changed the station‘s designated market area (DMA) to Atlanta. The station then put in a transmitter in the Atlanta DMA and demanded immediate mandatory carriage by DirecTV in Atlanta, saying the new transmitter — part of a transition to a distributed transmission system (DTS) — made it a new station that could seek carriage even though it was not the beginning of a must-carry cycle.
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Here is the current status on Dish Network as Disputes.

Tegna — 64 local channels
Sinclair-owned Regional Sports Channels — 21
Block Communications — 7 local channels
AT&T Regional Sports Channels — 3
NBC Sports Regional Sports Channels — 3

Circle City Broadcasting — 2 local channels
University of Missouri — 2 local channels
Altitude Sports — 1 regional sports channel
MASN — 1 regional sports channel
NESN — 1 regional sports channel
Root Sports — 1 regional sports channel

Update: Dish also lost NBC Sports Chicago in October 2019 so the number is 107.
Update #2: Dish is also missing three Fort Myers, Florida local stations, bringing the total to 110
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Newsmax is in a dispute with multiple cable operators.

While the focus has been on its conservative programming rival One America News and its recent carriage struggles, Newsmax has also quietly lost distribution on a number of pay TV systems in recent weeks.



Since Dec. 31, Newsmax has been pulled off the pay TV grids of cable operators including Atlantic Broadband, Cincinnati Bell, South Carolina's Hargray Communications (now owned by Cable One) and Central Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Communications. And these are just the cable systems that have dropped Newsmax that we know about.


It's unclear as to whether the carriage disruptions are part of an expiration of a master carriage deal Newsmax originally signed back in 2015 with the National Cable TV Cooperative (NCTC), which counts most, if not all, of the aforementioned cable companies as members. NCTC negotiates carriage agreements for around 700 member companies.


Reps for Newsmax and NCTC didn't immediately respond to our inquires.
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Canada Cable carriers has removed Russian owned RT from carriage due to the Sanctions against Russia over the Attacks in Ukraine.

The ban on Russian state-backed TV channel RT has spread to Canada.

Local cable TV providers have pulled RT from their TV lineups in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We have made the decision that effective today Russia Today will no longer be available on our channel lineup,” cable and telecom giant Rogers Communications, which is currently merging with rival Shaw Communications, told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.

Rival cable giant Bell Canada also confirmed to THR that it had removed RT from its TV lineup on Sunday. The Russian broadcaster is widely regarded as a megaphone for Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian government and has been available on a number of Canadian platforms including Bell TV, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable and Telus TV.
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Might as well replace it with Buzzr full-time. GSN is a waste of spectrum most of the time...a couple of decent in-house shows and LOTS of Harvey Feud reruns. A daily binge-watch fest.
 
Cable system channel lineups in many places will change seasonally thanks to continuing disputes between TV stations and cable networks on the one hand, and cable systems and satellite operators on the other hand.

And I think it may intensify in the next few years as cable and satellite operators will want to hold the line on rapidly increasing programming costs.

It's all about the "Benjamins"!
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Cable system channel lineups in many places will change seasonally thanks to continuing disputes between TV stations and cable networks on the one hand, and cable systems and satellite operators on the other hand.

And I think it may intensify in the next few years as cable and satellite operators will want to hold the line on rapidly increasing programming costs.

It's all about the "Benjamins"!
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Also another part the audience is shifting to TV apps. I am not so sure how long Cable TV will stay but there are outlets like Hulu Live, YouTube TV, FuboTV that have stepped in as retrans services for Internet TV streaming feeds.

In the case of Comcast it's all about protecting NBC and Peacock from their competition as we seen in the talks of cutting the 10pm hour.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Also another part the audience is shifting to TV apps. I am not so sure how long Cable TV will stay but there are outlets like Hulu Live, YouTube TV, FuboTV that have stepped in as retrans services for Internet TV streaming feeds.

In the case of Comcast it's all about protecting NBC and Peacock from their competition as we seen in the talks of cutting the 10pm hour.
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I don't think it's a good idea to depend entirely on streaming. The pipeline will slow down with everyone trying to watch everything that way. Cable doesn't have that problem because the same thing is going out on several hundred of these channels.
 
Disney channels dropped from Dish and Sling

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We're fighting to bring these channels back at the same great value you expect.
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OUR CONTRACT WITH THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY HAS EXPIRED​


What channels are impacted?​

  • Disney Channel, Disney Jr, Disney XD, ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN 3, ESPN OnDemand, ESPNEWS, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ACC Network, ACC Network Extra, Longhorn Network, SEC Network, SEC+, Freeform, FX, FXM, FXX, Nat Geo, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Mundo, ABC News Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, BabyTV, BabyTV Arabic, BabyTV French, BabyTV Latino, BabyTV Mandarin, BabyTV, Polish, BabyTV Portuguese
 


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