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The Programming Disputes Thread
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I find all of this quite laughable. TWC took the Lakers off of Channel 9 and Fox Sports West and ever since have had a showcase channel for a team that has under performed every facet in the sport of basketball. You know you've hit a rough patch when the black-sheeps of the Staples family, the Clippers and LA Kings, have both outperformed and both became playoff contenders (of that, the latter went the distance... TWICE!) in that same stint in time. The Lakers' mystique is gone. The team is hot garbage and they are the ones with a more blanketed coverage across all of the cable and satellite providers. The funny thing is, no one really cares. Even ESPN could give a rat's butt about the Lakers when they have the option to tag their weekend games with exclusivity. It doesn't happen because the Lakers are in the cellar and are unnoteworthy.
Then, TWC got greedy and spend-happy. They hijacked the Doyers expecting the other cable/sat providers to just open their wallets and beg for Dodgers baseball no matter the price. But no one came. They attached an outrageous price for a regional channel solely devoted to the Dodgers in the same price hemisphere as ESPN, a national system, which has a multitude of other sport properties (not just MLB and not just only ONE MLB team) at their disposal. Now, TWC wants to olive branch a temp short-term deal just because THE definitive marque name in baseball broadcasting is calling it quits this year? They are only doing this to get the channel on the likes of Verizon and Direct etc. and any smart person knows this this nothing more than 3-card Monte. I hope no one balks at this horses#!t play TWC is trying to pull. They deserve every single bit of red ink their lofty haughty expectations have sewn.
Then, TWC got greedy and spend-happy. They hijacked the Doyers expecting the other cable/sat providers to just open their wallets and beg for Dodgers baseball no matter the price. But no one came. They attached an outrageous price for a regional channel solely devoted to the Dodgers in the same price hemisphere as ESPN, a national system, which has a multitude of other sport properties (not just MLB and not just only ONE MLB team) at their disposal. Now, TWC wants to olive branch a temp short-term deal just because THE definitive marque name in baseball broadcasting is calling it quits this year? They are only doing this to get the channel on the likes of Verizon and Direct etc. and any smart person knows this this nothing more than 3-card Monte. I hope no one balks at this horses#!t play TWC is trying to pull. They deserve every single bit of red ink their lofty haughty expectations have sewn.
Meanwhile, YES (MLB Yankees and NBA Nets, etc.) was taken off of Comcast last November here in Connecticut. Radio ads run here constantly, produced by YES. The ads urge us to look for another provider. Here in New Britain and Hartford, CT, the only other provider I'm aware of is Frontier. Portions of the area are served by COX Communications (i.e. Meriden, Southington, Newington, Rocky Hill, Wethersfield and Manchester).
This site basically sums up YES' side of their fight with Comcast: keepyesnetwork.com
YES produces a few over-the-air games for broadcast "free" TV. Those games aired here last season on WCTX-TV (MY) channel 59 of New Haven. I've heard nothing on how that will be affected, if at all.
At last check, NESN (Red Sox and NHL Bruins) and SNY (Mets and select U-Conn football/basketball games) were still being carried.
This site basically sums up YES' side of their fight with Comcast: keepyesnetwork.com
YES produces a few over-the-air games for broadcast "free" TV. Those games aired here last season on WCTX-TV (MY) channel 59 of New Haven. I've heard nothing on how that will be affected, if at all.
At last check, NESN (Red Sox and NHL Bruins) and SNY (Mets and select U-Conn football/basketball games) were still being carried.
Isn't YES on DirecTV?
Of course, but it's not on Dish Network. None of NYC's RSNs are on Dish.
From Spencer Karter on the AVS Forum:
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/45-lo...2947-greenville-sc-hdtv-378.html#post42693410
I've got some BAD NEWS...Don't shoot the messenger!
Media General is threatened to blackout DISH Network subscribers again if a new retransmission consent agreement isn't reached on March 31st. Repeat offender? A repeat of 2013? MG owns our CBS and CW stations.
Remember back from October-November 2013 MediaGeneral blackout DISH because of outdated rules from so-called 1992 Cable Act before their controversial merger with Young Broadcasting. Yes, Retransmission Consent is a controversial topic and the blackouts by broadcasters another another controversial topic too.
I've first seen those dreadful messages while my folks watching Judge Judy on channel 7 today. :'(
Retransmission Consent reform is needed badly...Sorry NAB!
http://www.avsforum.com/forum/45-lo...2947-greenville-sc-hdtv-378.html#post42693410
I live in New Britain so this affects me being a Yankees fan.If you can get satellite TV and everybody can't you can go with Direct TV. Otherwise it is Frontier unless you want to do Playstation Vue which is a streaming service and they do offer YES from what I have read. But first you would have to buy a Playstation so I don't know how good of an option that is. And from what I have read they do not offer local stations as part of the package. I have to admit I don't know very much about Playstation Vue. I read about it for the first time about a week or so ago.
And as for WCTX TV or any other CT station picking up the WPIX 20 game Yankees over the air package I haven't heard anything yet. So it is definitely possible those games will not be available to most CT viewers this season as most of the state does not have access to WPIX. I researched Frontier and it appears they carry WPIX in the New Haven area but not in the Hartford area. But my main concern right now is the 130 games on the YES Network. And in my opinion Comcast will never carry YES again or at least not for a very long time and by a very long time I mean possibly years.
Now Cox Media is saying they could be off Dish Thursday as well.
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/di...85617721?ecmp=wsoctv_social_facebook_2014_sfp
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/di...85617721?ecmp=wsoctv_social_facebook_2014_sfp
wow, this is the 3rd dispute Dish is in this month alone. first the very public messy NBCUniversal/Comcast dispute, then the Media General dispute and now this, man i wouldn't want to be the guy in charge of negotiating at Dish right now.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...s-in-towel-dodger-channel-20160331-story.html
Between this and the fact the channel is losing millions, could this be the end for SportsNet LA? Could the Dodgers go back to FOX?
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"In its most recent offer, Time Warner Cable proposed a six-year deal with rates for SportsNet LA roughly comparable to what DirecTV charges for a regional sports channel that it owns in Seattle. The average price for that channel, Root Sports Northwest, is $3.84 a month, per subscriber home, according to consulting firm SNL Kagan."
So most of the cable systems -- in LA, with the DODGERS as the main attraction on the channel in question -- turned down the chance to carry that channel for the same price a cable system in Seattle pays for a channel with the MARINERS as its lone drawing card? Who's the villain in this story now, sports fans? Time Warner? For offering a No. 2 market sports product at No. 14 market rates? Yeah, right.
This sports-franchises-financing-themselves-on-fifty-year-premium-cable deals is a house of cards that is sure to collapse.
Sooner rather than later.
Sooner rather than later.
Media General: We Have a Deal With Dish
Media General's local stations this afternoon have posted notices at their web sites that their corporate parent has reached a new carriage pact with Dish.
The agreement avoids a Dish blackout of Media General's 70 local stations.
The two companies have been negotiating for weeks and their old agreement expired last night. However, Media General agreed to a short-term extension in the talks.
"We are pleased to inform you that we reached a deal with Dish and there will be no disruption to your programming," the Media General statement reads today. "We appreciate your patience and support throughout these negotiations."
http://tvpredictions.com/dish040116.htm
Don't know if this was a dispute or other decision but INSP was replaced all of a sudden on DISH by an INFO mercial channel.
This would explain why I was getting a crawl on WSOC-TV on a show I taped on Tuesday night, though it wasn't happening later in the week.
It's with all the Comcast systems which carried YES, not just Connecticut. The radio ads mention "other providers" as Direct TV, Verizon FIOS and Playstation 4. Our Hartford area ads say Frontier in place of Verizon FIOS. Of course, for us in Connecticut, NESN (Red Sox/Bruins) and SNY (Mets and U-Conn) are being carried as if nothing ever happened.
I'm having to settle with listening to the game on radio. That's with the crappy signal of WUCS-FM 97.9 of Windsor Locks/Hartford. Here in New Britain's south end, the signal is spotty.
I'm having to settle with listening to the game on radio. That's with the crappy signal of WUCS-FM 97.9 of Windsor Locks/Hartford. Here in New Britain's south end, the signal is spotty.