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KXAN OFf of Direct TV again.
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I don't think it's specific to KXAN, I think it's many Nexstar owned stations. There is another Nexstar TV station who's website I check every few days and it has a huge red banner across the top of the website asking customers to contact DirecTV and demand they continue to carry that particular station.
EDIT: Actually this involves more than 200 stations. Nexstar is demanding to receive double the fees from DirectTV. Here is a related RadioDiscussions thread:
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I'm not sure if this is an issue with KXAN charging (i.e. your question about how much an average local channel charges), or if it's a much bigger issue with Nexstar-owned stations, which, per the article I posted above, is affecting more than 200 stations nationwide.
As mentioned in my post above, I sometimes follow the website of a Nexstar-owned station to keep up with happenings where some of my family lives. When you go to that station's website, it has a huge bright red banner that's about 2" tall by 6" wide (meaning it cannot be misssed) that states "DIRECTV/UVerse Customers: Wxxx has been forced off your line-up, and important programming you pay for has disappeared. Call 1-800-531-5000 NOW and DEMAND DIRECTV return Wxxx."
As mentioned in my post above, I sometimes follow the website of a Nexstar-owned station to keep up with happenings where some of my family lives. When you go to that station's website, it has a huge bright red banner that's about 2" tall by 6" wide (meaning it cannot be misssed) that states "DIRECTV/UVerse Customers: Wxxx has been forced off your line-up, and important programming you pay for has disappeared. Call 1-800-531-5000 NOW and DEMAND DIRECTV return Wxxx."
The solution is simple, get an antenna for your tv and watch your local stations over the air. We really need to quit relying on cable/satellite/streaming to get our locals. Unless you live in an area where reception is rough, it makes no sense to pay for free tv. These greedy companies get away with what they do because they know that a lot of people today think you need a tv provider to get local tv. They depend on that to change what they do.
What you are missing is that many local TV stations get over half their income from cable and satellite "must carry" fees and they could not exist without them.
at this point, Broadcast TV's model could change in the age of streaming as in they could just go bye bye and move everything to a webstream behind a pay wall instead of getting their moment from basic cable retransmission fees and ad revenue.
They can exist. They did for over 40 years. It's just that they may have to cut their bloated newscasts and associated staff and go back to news at 5, 6, and 10 (maybe with an hour or two in the morning and 30 minutes at noon).
They may not be able to afford two expensive transmitters, and will have to combine their duopolies onto one channel, dropping those diginets that nobody watches, such as the home shopping channels (and I have no idea how much the stations get from them). That would be good because there just isn't the spectrum space now that there was even a few years ago before losing channels 38-51.
Sounds to me like the "must carry gravy train" is on its death-bed.
The FCC won't let them go bye-bye. If they had, at least half of today's TV stations would have signed off years ago.
But with cable a lot of people are paying for these local channels they never watch. If they go to a web only model they would only get a fraction of the amount of subscribers. These big four affiliates are charging $5+/month per channel per subscriber. I don't see anyone buying these channels individually, as a locals package, or as an add on to says Netflix, Prime, Max, Paramount or Peacock.
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