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The Programming Disputes Thread

more bad news for Dish customers, a dispute with Tegna is happening as tomorrow night as their contract to carry the Tegna stations that agreed in October of 2015 will expire tomorrow night.

the warning from the Tegna owned Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA:
https://www.wfaa.com/dish
 
This will affect WCSH-TV (NBC) channel 6 of Portland, the top rated news station in the Portland/Poland Spring DMA. They also own WLBZ-TV (NBC) channel 2 of Bangor.
 
So there goes KING, KGW and KREM, at least for Dish subs living in Washington state. We don't have a TEGNA station in this area so we won't be affected.
 
KARE11 in Minneapolis

hmmm...wonder what NBC Dish will give for Mankato subs? Mankato is a 1 station 2 net market (CBS main FOX sub) so they import ABC & NBC from Minneapolis. When a station gets taken down due to dispute, when a market has an imported network due to none in the market Dish substitutes another...usually one in the same spotbeam. So Maybe Sioux Falls or Des Moines. But we'll see

Note this is the ONLY example of when a station gets pulled that Dish can import another network (there is no NBC affiliate in Mankato)
 
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-27/tv-blackouts-like-dish-hbo-will-only-get-worse

An editorial on TV Contract Disputes and Blackouts getting worse.

Whether you still use a coaxial cable to watch television or have converted to streaming, get used to channel blackouts and general confusion over which TV services carry your favorite programs.

Signal disruptions, or blackouts, spiked in the U.S. last year. They involved 29 TV stations, data from Kagan-S&P Global Market Intelligence show, and more than 200 markets were affected, according to the American Television Alliance, a group that lobbies for cable and satellite providers. And that’s just for broadcast signals. It doesn’t capture situations like the recent removal of HBO and Cinemax, two premium cable networks, from Dish Network Corp.’s lineup, including from its Sling TV streaming app.

For journalists covering the media industry, some of the most frequent and incensed emails from readers are from folks experiencing channel blackouts, such as customers of AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV service in Utah frustrated that their local NBC affiliate went dark in August. Increasingly, another reader gripe is the difficulty of comparing streaming subscriptions, especially for those consumers who are loyal to certain TV shows rather than the overarching network brands.
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unclehonkey said:
KARE11 in Minneapolis

hmmm...wonder what NBC Dish will give for Mankato subs? Mankato is a 1 station 2 net market (CBS main FOX sub) so they import ABC & NBC from Minneapolis. When a station gets taken down due to dispute, when a market has an imported network due to none in the market Dish substitutes another...usually one in the same spotbeam. So Maybe Sioux Falls or Des Moines. But we'll see

Note this is the ONLY example of when a station gets pulled that Dish can import another network (there is no NBC affiliate in Mankato)
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Maybe even WNBC? Like on DirecTV they used to be nationally-imported to Dish for DNS years ago. Speaking of, in the interim time between KCWK going defunct and KIMA getting CW+ on the DT2, I *swear* I saw KRCW Portland on Yakima Dish (would have been May 2009, visiting grandparents in lower valley, was living north of Seattle at the time). But other sources say they took KTLA?
 
crainbebo said:
Maybe even WNBC? Like on DirecTV they used to be nationally-imported to Dish for DNS years ago.
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nope. Dish usually imports a neighboring affiliate but Dish (being cheap) will usually give them a affiliate on the same spotbeam so they dont need to uplink it again. So it may not even be from the same state
 
crainbebo said:
Maybe even WNBC? Like on DirecTV they used to be nationally-imported to Dish for DNS years ago. Speaking of, in the interim time between KCWK going defunct and KIMA getting CW+ on the DT2, I *swear* I saw KRCW Portland on Yakima Dish (would have been May 2009, visiting grandparents in lower valley, was living north of Seattle at the time). But other sources say they took KTLA?
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Dish gave Mankato WOWT Omaha for all of an hour...uplinked it at noon eastern....then pulled it an hour later because Tegna settled and KARE is back

The other market that got a different NBC was Presque Isle, Maine. They usually have Bangor NBC (WLBZ) but they gave them WBTS Boston for an hour

uplink at noon
6440 LOCAL renamed WOWT OMAHA, NE (NBC) SV* (11 HD Local) (129° 13s14 (Central Minnesota) HD Mankato, MN market Hidden)
6440 LOCAL renamed WOWT OMAHA, NE (NBC) SV* (11 HD Local) (61.5° 19s60 (Minnesota) HD Mankato, MN market Hidden)
5182 LOCAL renamed WBTS (2 HD Local) (61.5° 32s1 (Maine) HD Presque Isle, ME market Hidden)
6732 LOCAL renamed WBTS (2 Local) (110° 25s8 (North Maine) SD Presque Isle, ME market Hidden)
 
Another dispute? Let's see how long this conflict goes. We don't have Tribune stations here, but Wenatchee Charter subs will lose KCPQ/KZJO if no solution is made. On the other hand, WPIX and KTLA will be gone in their respective markets, to millions of subs. Spectrum is not in the western half of this state. It's already been a ridiculous year for Spectrum, with the 4-month long Northwest dispute that took off my local FOX. I finally told them to pound their $180.00+ bill into the sand, and I no longer have their TV service. My bill, that high for just the expanded basic channels, internet and home phone? Get outta here! DIRECTV is being installed here this week.
We have no other choice for Internet, other than Spectrum. Same with the phone, albeit CenturyLink may be a choice here, not sure.
 
crainbebo said:
Another dispute? Let's see how long this conflict goes. We don't have Tribune stations here, but Wenatchee Charter subs will lose KCPQ/KZJO if no solution is made. On the other hand, WPIX and KTLA will be gone in their respective markets, to millions of subs. Spectrum is not in the western half of this state. It's already been a ridiculous year for Spectrum, with the 4-month long Northwest dispute that took off my local FOX. I finally told them to pound their $180.00+ bill into the sand, and I no longer have their TV service. My bill, that high for just the expanded basic channels, internet and home phone? Get outta here! DIRECTV is being installed here this week.
We have no other choice for Internet, other than Spectrum. Same with the phone, albeit CenturyLink may be a choice here, not sure.
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For phone, who's the incumbent for your area?
 
https://deadline.com/2018/12/disney...ustomers-about-potential-blackout-1202525927/

Update Disney is going to end up in a contract Dispute with Fios on New Years Eve is a deal is not reached. This affects ABC/Disney O&O's WABC-TV and WPVI-TV

UPDATED with details from Verizon email to FiOS customers. ‘Tis the season for cable carriage fights, with December 31 a common expiration date for major deals, and the latest tussle is between Disney and Verizon FiOS.


Disney has started airing ads aimed at the 4.5 million subscribers to FiOS. The spots carry the message “don’t lose your shows.” They say that ESPN, Freeform, the Disney Channel and local ABC stations in New York and Philadelphia could go dark by this time next week if the parties cannot reach an agreement.

Sports is a central issue in the carriage impasse, as it often is. ESPN is preparing to broadcast the two College Football Playoff semi-final games, which have been two of the highest-rated live telecasts in all of television in recent years. The network also has an NFL wild-card playoff game in early January.


In an email to FiOS customers this afternoon, Verizon said Disney “is currently proposing that Verizon pay hundreds of millions of dollars more for its programming, despite the fact that many of its key networks are experiencing declining viewership.” It added, “The rising cost of programming is the biggest factor in higher TV bills and we are standing up to networks like Disney, refusing to accept these huge increases.”
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RadioPatrol said:
https://deadline.com/2018/12/disney...ustomers-about-potential-blackout-1202525927/

Update Disney is going to end up in a contract Dispute with Fios on New Years Eve is a deal is not reached. This affects ABC/Disney O&O's WABC-TV and WPVI-TV
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does this dispute also affect markets where Frontier Communications bought out the Fios services from Verizon like for example, Dallas-Fort Worth used to be Verizon Fios, but Frontier bought that market's Fios system out from Verizon.
 
Mediacom and Tegna in a posible dispute...Dec 31st per email I got

Dear (me),

At the end of each year, Mediacom routinely works to renew many of the agreements we have with the owners of the television channels we carry. Almost all of the negotiations take place behind the scenes, and customers are rarely aware that the negotiations are even happening.

In recent years, many cable and satellite companies have found it increasingly difficult to negotiate with the owners of local broadcast stations like ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CW, and MyNetwork TV. The new "normal" in these negotiations has become the station owners trying to double their rates every few years. When a cable or satellite company refuses to agree to these huge increases, the station owners routinely resort to blacking out their stations.

Currently, our contract with TEGNA is set to expire on December 31, 2018, at 5 PM ET/ 4 PM CT. TEGNA is the owner of three of your local stations, listed below. While Mediacom strives to keep programming costs to a minimum, TEGNA is demanding to be paid over twice as much as the previous 3-year deal we reached with them.

Several years ago, Mediacom introduced a broadcast surcharge to bring more transparency to the rate increases being taken by companies like TEGNA. Every penny TEGNA squeezes from Mediacom gets passed through directly to you, our customers. We don't profit from these rate increases, we simply pass them on to our customers on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

While we are expecting to reach an agreement without any disruption in service, there remains a possibility that TEGNA could resort to a blackout of your channels. This is a negotiating tactic that TEGNA used in October 2015 and again in 2018 when it blacked out hundreds of thousands of Dish Network subscribers across the nation. These blackouts are generally short-lived, but we understand they can be very confusing and frustrating to TV viewers. In the meantime, we will continue doing everything in our power to keep these channels in your lineup at a fair price.

Thank you for being a Loyal Mediacom Customer.


For me its KARE NBC and 2 of its subs WxNation and Justice (Mediacom does not carry Quest)
 


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