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The Programming Disputes Thread

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The NHL/NBA Blackouts: What Are the Companies Saying? - The TV Answer Man!

Q. The NHL season is starting tonight and Hulu still doesn’t carry the Fox sports channels that Sinclair owns. Is there any progress in these negotiations? What are the companies saying about the blackout? Do they think it will end today before the season starts? — Nate, Pontiac, Michigan. Nate...
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NESN: YouTube TV Doesn't Care About Sports Fans - The TV Answer Man!

Here are the current carriage disputes for this week.
 
When a majority of the streaming and satellite providers are in a dispute with one company, that company is the one that needs to look in the mirror.

I'm surprised that the various teams that air on the FSN channels haven't put pressure on Sinclair to work out a deal. I would think that only being available to roughly 1/2 the viewers in their market would be a violation of their contract. Of course, these same teams are the ones that left the OTA channels because they thought they could make more money from the RSNs. Plenty of greed all around.
 
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DIRECTV In Fee Fight With Cox Media Stations - The TV Answer Man!

DIRECTV and AT&T TV could lose 14 local stations this Tuesday due to a carriage dispute with Cox Media Group which manages the stations. (The fee fight also affects U-verse in the markets it serves.) Update: AT&T TV Services Lose 25 Cox Media Stations In Fee Fight Cox, which is owned by Apollo...
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Cox is going to be in a dispute with Directv.

Date: January 28, 2021Author: TV Answer Man 2 Comments



DIRECTV and AT&T TV could lose 14 local stations this Tuesday due to a carriage dispute with Cox Media Group which manages the stations. (The fee fight also affects U-verse in the markets it serves.)

Cox, which is owned by Apollo Global Management, has posted a notice at the stations’ web sites saying the local channels could be removed this Tuesday at 3 a.m. ET.
“Our existing agreement with AT&T/DIRECTV expires after 1:59 a.m. Central time on Tuesday 2/2. If no deal is reached before that date, you will lose live access to shows like, FOX23 News, 911, NASCAR, MLB and more, which you rely on and are paying for,” stated KOKI-TV, the Fox affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the 14 stations.
The TV Answer Man has asked AT&T for a statement and will report back here if we get a response.
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Deeper Dive—Almost seven months later and still no Peacock on Fire TV

HBO Max and Roku took nearly seven months to work out a distribution deal. Now Peacock and Amazon are close to extending their standoff beyond that point. | HBO Max and Roku took nearly seven months to work out a distribution deal. Now Peacock and Amazon are close to extending their standoff...
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NBC's dispute with Amazon over the carriage of the Peacock app goes on for 7 months.
 
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Dish Loses Florida CBS Affiliate Before Super Bowl - The TV Answer Man!

Dish last night lost the local CBS affiliate (WINK-TV) in Fort Myers, Florida due to a carriage dispute with its owner, Fort Myers Broadcasting. The fee fight comes with CBS scheduled today to broadcast Super Bowl 55 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “Fort Myers...
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Dish Network is in a dispute with WINK-TV.
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Being a locally based OTA TV owner like WINK's Fort Myers Broadcasting is becoming increasingly rare. Retrans disputes have to put small groups and singleton owners at a real disadvantage.
 
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Did Roku Drop Vimeo? - The TV Answer Man!

Q. Did Roku drop Vimeo like it did the Spectrum TV app? I saw on Twitter that Roku said the Vimeo app was discontinued and it had a link to the Vimeo web site that also said it was discontinued. What’s going on? Is this another carriage thing between the companies? I checked on my […]
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Vimeo App is no longer available on Roku

If the Roku owners click on the link, it would appear that the Vimeo app is indeed no longer available on the streaming device. Roku is listed as one of the “discontinued platforms” for Vimeo, along with second and third generations of the Apple TV and the XBox 360, among others.

Considering that Roku has been engaged in a handful of carriage disputes over the last year, including a current one with Charter for its Spectrum TV app, it was not a reach to wonder if Roku and Vimeo were now fighting over fees.
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I go to Vimeo occasionally but it was never a regular app I used on my Roku, so I didn't know it was gone. When I used it, it was usually from the website on my laptop. To some extent it sounds like this may be Vimeo cutting the app back, whether because of disputes or the changes in their service.
 
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Updated: Sling TV, Dish to Lose NBC Sports Regional Channels - The TV Answer Man!

Sling TV has announced it will lose three NBC Sports regional sports networks on April 1 due to a carriage dispute with their owner, NBC Sports. The live streaming service says NBC Sports Washington, NBC Sports California and NBC Sports Bay Area will be removed from its lineup. Sling has carried...
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Sling TV to lose NBC Sports Local edition in April due to the dispute.

Sling TV has announced it will lose three NBC Sports regional sports networks on April 1 due to a carriage dispute with their owner, NBC Sports.


The live streaming service says NBC Sports Washington, NBC Sports California and NBC Sports Bay Area will be removed from its lineup. Sling has carried the three channels since 2017.

“As of 4/12021, NBC Regional Sports Networks will no longer be on SLING. We are committed to providing the best value with the flexibility our customer’s deserve and, unfortunately, we were unable to come to an agreement on those terms,” Sling said in an e-mail to customers.
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Updated: Sling TV, Dish to Lose NBC Sports Regional Channels - The TV Answer Man!

Sling TV has announced it will lose three NBC Sports regional sports networks on April 1 due to a carriage dispute with their owner, NBC Sports. The live streaming service says NBC Sports Washington, NBC Sports California and NBC Sports Bay Area will be removed from its lineup. Sling has carried...
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Sling TV to lose NBC Sports Local edition in April due to the dispute.
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Dish will lose them too as Dish owns Sling TV and i think they had a 5 year deal with NBCUniversal/Comcast after their 2016 dispute, so they maybe due for a new dispute with NBCUniversal
 
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Dish, Sling TV vs. Sinclair: Will It Settle By Opening Day? - The TV Answer Man!

Q. I have Sling TV and we haven’t had our Fox regional sports channel here in the Phoenix area forever. Is there any chance it will get it back before opening day baseball so I can watch the Arizona Diamondbacks? If not, I will try another streaming service. — Gene, Phoenix. Gene, on July 26, […]
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YouTube TV, Hulu vs. Sinclair: Will They Settle Before Opening Day? - The TV Answer Man!

Q. Thank you for writing today about the Dish and Sling TV sports fight with Sinclair. But what about Hulu’s live streaming and YouTube TV, too. Any chance they will settle before baseball begins next month? Or Fubo TV? We need a streaming alternative of some kind. — Morgan, Mason, Ohio. Morgan...
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