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The Hearst/DirecTV negotiations: Got an update?

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ixnay

I live in the Baltimore market, one of whose stations is Hearst-owned NBC affiliate WBAL-11, which, like the other Baltimore stations, I pick up via DirecTV.

Lately, during their newscasts, WBAL has been running occasional crawls across the screen telling viewers that Hearst Television has been negotiating with DirecTV over a new carriage agreement, and warning that the current agreement expires 1/1/2011.

This should remind my fellow DirecTV customers of last winter, when DirecTV pulled the plug on Vs. (temporarily) over a carriage fee dispute.

Does anyone know the state of the Hearst/DirecTV negotiations? I did a R-I search and found no mention of such.

ixnay
 
Don't know, but I am well within rabbit-ear range of WTAE in Pittsburgh,
so is not a real biggie for me (unlike the year I had to go without hockey on
Versus)

My guess is that ABC, and in your case NBC, will have something to say about
it by the time all is said and done. They would not want to lose all the DirecTV
audience in markets of that size.
 
Add Raycom Media to that list of negotiators with DirecTV. It seems their stations are set to lose carry rights as well on January 1st. That means CBS in Cleveland & Charlotte, NBC in Memphis, Louisville, and Richmond, and FOX in Cincinnati, West Palm Beach, and Birmingham could all go black on DirecTV, so we will see if they are hedging their bets on this one as well...
 
I imagine there are news blackouts on these negotiations. It's getting late relative to the deadline. They're cutting it real close.

Boston is Hearst's largest market (no pun intended). What's Raycom's?

ixnay
 
ixnay said:
I imagine there are news blackouts on these negotiations. It's getting late relative to the deadline. They're cutting it real close.

Boston is Hearst's largest market (no pun intended). What's Raycom's?

ixnay
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Cleveland is Raycom's largest market.
 
Don't forget Charleston, SC where Raycom owns WCSC. Can also add Myrtle Beach, SC and Wilmington, NC both markets where Raycom owns stations.
 
The fact that it's Hearst AND Raycom is a disaster for residents of Louisville, Kentucky. (NBC and CBS)..or Cincinnati (NBC and Fox)...or West Palm Beach, Florida (ABC and Fox)...or Jackson, Mississippi (NBC and ABC)...and probably Honolulu (where, if everything that Raycom and MCG and Hearst have tentacles in goes, the lone commercial mainstream holdout is KHON-2). (Insight cable in some parts of that market also has a looming threat of losing KGMB-KHNL-KFVE.)

Had it been 2005, you could have added Albuquerque, too.
 
kilamanjero said:
Cleveland is Raycom's largest market.
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By far, if I remember right. The dispute also affects MyNetwork TV affiliate WUAB/43 here, not that anyone watches it.

(Well, they used to watch for what's about 5 OTA simulcasts of FSOhio's Cleveland Cavaliers coverage, but that's obviously changed a lot in 2010/2011...and even if it hadn't, you can still get those games on FSOhio on DirecTV even if WUAB goes away.)
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
kilamanjero said:
Cleveland is Raycom's largest market.
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By far, if I remember right. The dispute also affects MyNetwork TV affiliate WUAB/43 here, not that anyone watches it.

(Well, they used to watch for what's about 5 OTA simulcasts of FSOhio's Cleveland Cavaliers coverage, but that's obviously changed a lot in 2010/2011...and even if it hadn't, you can still get those games on FSOhio on DirecTV even if WUAB goes away.)
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Not by far. It's 18. Charlotte (WBTV) is 23 and Cincinnati (WXIX) is 33.
 
Every half-hour here for the past week, WCSC has been scrolling a message saying that they could be off DirecTV on Dec. 31. WCSC here would be the only station affected.
 
kilamanjero said:
Add Raycom Media to that list of negotiators with DirecTV. It seems their stations are set to lose carry rights as well on January 1st. That means CBS in Cleveland & Charlotte
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...you left out Tucson, where KOLD-TV/v13 is the CBS primary...
 
Ultimajock said:
kilamanjero said:
Add Raycom Media to that list of negotiators with DirecTV. It seems their stations are set to lose carry rights as well on January 1st. That means CBS in Cleveland & Charlotte
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...you left out Tucson, where KOLD-TV/v13 is the CBS primary...
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Yes, KOLD too. If it weren't for Raycom Design being there KOLD would have been sold off to somebody (it just does not fit Raycom's geographic plans; look at the map of stations on their website).
 
Raymie said:
The fact that it's Hearst AND Raycom is a disaster for residents of Louisville, Kentucky. (NBC and CBS)..or Cincinnati (NBC and Fox)...or West Palm Beach, Florida (ABC and Fox)...or Jackson, Mississippi (NBC and ABC)...and probably Honolulu (where, if everything that Raycom and MCG and Hearst have tentacles in goes, the lone commercial mainstream holdout is KHON-2). (Insight cable in some parts of that market also has a looming threat of losing KGMB-KHNL-KFVE.)

Had it been 2005, you could have added Albuquerque, too.
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I hadn't heard that Raycom was involved in this one, too. I knew about Hearst.

I do know that Raycom was in negotiations with Kentucky's largest cable provider (Insight Communications) which just wrapped with a 3 year agreement being reached today (per michaelsinsight.com), over retrans agreements for WXIX, WAVE and also Evansville's WFIE-TV 14.
 
??? :-\ Clearly, nobody told the left hand what the right hand was doing...
 
ixnay said:
I live in the Baltimore market, one of whose stations is Hearst-owned NBC affiliate WBAL-11, which, like the other Baltimore stations, I pick up via DirecTV.

Lately, during their newscasts, WBAL has been running occasional crawls across the screen telling viewers that Hearst Television has been negotiating with DirecTV over a new carriage agreement, and warning that the current agreement expires 1/1/2011.

This should remind my fellow DirecTV customers of last winter, when DirecTV pulled the plug on Vs. (temporarily) over a carriage fee dispute.

Does anyone know the state of the Hearst/DirecTV negotiations? I did a R-I search and found no mention of such.

ixnay
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I saw this evening on WMUR.COM (and on WCVB.com) that Hearst and Direct TV have reached an agreement.
 
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