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The Programming Disputes Thread

https://www.nexttv.com/news/atandt-tv-app-ends-support-for-roku

AT&T to end Support for Roku. Yes even for internet TV devices/services and outlets there are carriage disputes.

“Already have AT&T TV on your Roku device? You can keep using it as long as you don't delete the app. We're actively working on a new agreement with Roku and hope to resolve this soon,” the support page said.

AT&T TV supports AT&T Now, the vMVPD AT&T is quietly shoving aside to make room for the confusingly monikered AT&T TV, the live-streamed version of AT&T’s premium pay TV service.

AT&T TV is currently in beta and set to roll out nationwide in February, and the new service doesn’t have much need for living-room based OTT devices. Rather, AT&T TV requires a proprietary Android TV-powered set-top, rendering app-based viewing to iOS and Android mobile devices.
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https://www.multichannel.com/news/hearst-stations-go-dark-to-directv

Update Hearst Owned Stations have been removed from AT&T due to the dispute.

Hearst Television, after granting four temporary extensions to DirecTV and streaming service AT&T TV Now to try to hammer out a deal, pulled its 34 broadcast stations from the satellite giant’s customers Friday, after the parties failed to reach a retransmission consent agreement.

Hearst TV’s retrans deal officially expired on Dec. 31, but the broadcaster granted four extensions - one to 3 p.m. on Jan. 2 and three on Jan. 3 (at 3, 5 and 7 p.m.) while it tried to reach a deal. The extensions were initially seen to be a sign that an agreement could be close, but alas it was not meant to be.

“We must have Hearst’s permission to offer any of its stations and have repeatedly asked Hearst to keep them available while we conclude a new business agreement privately,” DirecTV said in a statement. “Hearst has refused and instead continues to demand far higher fees than we have ever agreed to with any other station owner including very recent deals with far larger broadcasters.”
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KCRA, KSBW, KQCA, WCVB, WBAL and WISN are removed due to the AT&T Dispute.
 
https://www.boston25news.com/news/keep-boston-25-news-verizon-fios/GBDOKVUOBZFTTDHPXOI3SSPYUQ/

Cox has issued a statement on the Dispute

Atlanta, Ga. — Four Cox Media Group Television stations have been removed from distributor Verizon Fios after the two companies were unable to come to terms on a new retransmission consent agreement.

The blackout affects Verizon customers in key markets, including Pittsburgh, Boston and Syracuse. The previous agreement expired on Tuesday, December 31st at midnight. Despite weeks of negotiations, Verizon has decided to remove WPXI-Pittsburgh, WFXT-Boston 25 News, and WSYT and WNYS in Syracuse from its channel lineup, and Verizon subscribers in these markets will no longer be able to access these leading stations that have served their markets as local news leaders for years.

Cox Media Group has been negotiating in good faith, working into late hours of the evening to come to an agreement. At multiple points in the negotiation, CMG offered Verizon extensions to avoid disruption to their customers. Unfortunately, Verizon has refused all extension offers and instead, made the decision to remove these stations as they continued the negotiation. Cox Media Group has made every effort to get Verizon to restore these stations to their lineup and will continue to negotiate in good faith to reach a resolution as quickly as possible.
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https://www.kcra.com/article/a-message-for-directv-subscribers-2/30370586

Hearst Television has made a statement on the AT&T Dispute.

DIRECTV and Hearst Television have reached an impasse in negotiating a renewal retransmission consent agreement for the carriage of Hearst Television’s broadcast stations on DIRECTV’s satellite system and its internet-delivered platform AT&T TV Now (formerly known as DIRECTV TV Now). We have made significant investments to deliver top tier programming to our viewers and DIRECTV is seeking the right to carry our stations at below market rates, which is neither fair nor reasonable.

To be clear, we have not “blacked out” our station. You may continue to receive our station for free, over the air, or by other satellite distribution, and, where available, from cable operators.
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You can determine the type of antenna needed to receive the signals of our station at http://www.antennaweb.org/.

To contact DIRECTV regarding the inconvenience caused by its unreasonable demands call DIRECTV customer service at 1-800-531-5000 or 1-800-288-2020.
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https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/tv/article238957113.html

Here is the fallout from the Hearst/ AT&T dispute in Sacramento. Note if you live in Solano County, CA (The Border of San Francisco and Sacramento TV Markets) and you are not able to get KCRA3 (Sacramento's NBC Affiliate) you might in some cases get NBC O&O NBC Bay Area on OTA or on some providers as an alternate.

WHEN WILL IT RETURN?

Past outages have been settled over the weekend or taken several weeks or longer. And this is not the first time that KCRA, the NBC affiliate for Sacramento, Stockton and Modesto, has been disrupted as the two sides failed to agree on transmission terms back in January 2017. That disruption lasted for a week before an agreement was reached. Terms of that deal were not disclosed.

A similar disruption occurred over more than two weeks with CBS being blacked out in Sacramento in July and August after failing to agree with DirecTV.

One such case in 2015, between Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcasting, resulted in subscribers missing several weeks of local programming. Another between a Texas broadcaster and DirecTV lasted five months.

The disruption means DirecTV customers could miss NFL playoff games this weekend. Sacramento viewers may not be able to watch Sunday’s NFC divisional match on NBC between the Seattle Seahawks and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Other markets controlled by Hearst may miss ABC’s coverage of the Buffalo Bills-Houston Texans game Saturday afternoon; that won’t be the case for capital region viewers who receive ABC 10 from McLean, Va.-based TEGNA.

The rest of the NFL games are carried on Fox, meaning viewers in of Nexstar-owned Fox 40 in Sacramento and Fox stations elsewhere should have no problems tuning in.
HOW TO WATCH NBC

The stations, which transmit from a tower in Walnut Grove, are still available over the air for free, both sides pointed out. However, most homes require a digital antenna and modern TV tuner capable of receiving digital broadcast signals to receive it. Some televisions no longer carry tuners and require a set-top box to receive broadcast signals.

The indoor antennas that accept digital broadcast signals range in price from about $15 to $150. Some include amplifiers to boost the signal for those who live farther from a transmitter.

KCRA and KCQA are being carried on the region’s other cable and IPTV providers
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https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/mission-stations-blacked-out-to-dish-subscribers

Mission Broadcasting in a contract dispute with Dish Network. Mission Broadcasting is an associated company who has contracts to carry local news content from Nexstar television.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Broadcasting

Mission Broadcasting said its stations in 18 markets are no longer being carried by Dish Network because of a retransmission consent dispute.


The stations were removed by Dish without warning Friday night, Mission said. The broadcaster said it had offered to extend its current agreement so viewers wouldn’t miss the beginning of the NFL playoff but Dish turned it down.

“Dish gave us no warning when it removed our stations,” said Dennis Thatcher, president of Mission Broadcasting.

“We offered an extension, and Dish refused, even though the NFL Playoffs began on Saturday. This has been, sadly, typical behavior for Dish—the company has constantly put its subscribers in the middle, denying them programming they’ve already paid for rather than taking the path to negotiate in good faith,” Thatcher said. “Mission has now joined the ranks of a number of broadcast groups who’ve been subject to this harsh negotiating tactic by The Dish Network. Mission has a long track record of negotiating fairly with all of its cable, satellite and telco partners and avoiding service interruptions in our markets. That’s simply not the case with Dish.”
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https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/243027/locast-launches-gofundme-page-to-fight-nets/


Locast forms a Go Fund Me page to fight disputes against networks.


The Locast GoFundMe page is raising money for its legal defense fund to fight major broadcasters such as CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC which it says have “conspired, colluded and sued Locast to shut it down.”

Locast says viewers and concerned citizens are already donating to the Locast GoFundMe page, “many expressing in the comments section the difficulties they’ve encountered over the decades with viewing their local TV channels over-the-air. They also claim there is an urgent need for the important public service Locast is providing by making local TV channels available to more than 40 million households over the internet.”

Locast founder David Goodfriend said: “The good news is that we’re winning, and the courts permitted Locast to continue streaming your local broadcast channels for free while the lawsuit is pending. We’ve since launched three new markets — Atlanta, Phoenix and Seattle — with more markets on the way. Every day, we add new users who choose to donate as little as $5 a month, helping to offset operating costs. But we also need our ‘Locast Nation’ viewers and citizens concerned about losing access to free local TV to donate to our GoFundMe page to help us keep up the court fight.”
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https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/wisc-blacked-out-on-u-verse

Morgan Murphy Media in a Dispute with AT&T

WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisc., has been blacked out to U-verse subscribers because of a retransmission consent dispute between station owner Morgan Murphy Media and AT&T, which owns U-verse.
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AT&T said it was disappointed by the blackout. “We must have Morgan Murphy’s permission to offer WISC-CBS/MNT and asked Morgan Murphy to keep WISC-CBS/MNT available while we conclude a new business agreement privately,” AT&T said in a statement. “Morgan Murphy refused and chose to withhold WISC-CBS/MNT instead. We remain on the side of consumer choice and value, whereas Morgan Murphy is known to withhold its stations to try to increase its fees for free broadcast TV.”
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This will affect KCYU (AGAIN!! 3rd year in a row of some type of dispute) if they (Cox and Dish) don't get a deal. Northwest Broadcasting was sold off to Apollo/Cox this past year.
Also KIRO in Seattle will go bye bye. No CBS in western Washington for Dish subs.
 
https://keepmystation.com/klrt

Apparently on this web page nexstar is reporting that they are in a dispute with Dish too.

Here's what you need to know

1. What’s happening?

Fox 16 Arkansas and DISH must renew the contract that allows the cable company to send our programming to you. Fox 16 Arkansas has presented our proposal for fair value compensation, based on the value our programming brings you. Thus far, DISH has refused our fair offer and failed to negotiate in a meaningful fashion.

2. What about the network programming Fox 16 Arkansas carries?

That too. Sports, prime time, morning shows, as well as our local news and our own shows. All our programming will be unavailable until a new contract is agreed.


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https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/dish-subs-blacked-out-by-apollo-northwest-stations

Dish in a dispute with Apollo

Dish Network said that its subscribers lost access to the signal from stations bought by Apollo Global Management in 10 markets at 7 p.m. Saturday as retransmission consent negotiations failed.


Apollo acquired the stations from Northwest Broadcasting last year.

Dish said that Apollo was seeing to double the payments it gets and that it turned down an offer to extend the current deal--with payments--to get subscribers through the Super Bowl. The NFL plays its conference championship games Sunday.

“Apollo doesn’t care how high a customer’s bill gets. It's trying to squeeze every last penny out of consumers to recoup the billions it spent buying these stations,” said Andy LeCuyer, Dish senior VP of programming. “They are fund managers built to serve wealthy private investors, not local viewers. For Apollo it’s about a number. For Dish it’s about customers.”
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