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The Programming Disputes Thread

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Comcast customers in Butte County, south Solano County will lose KCRA

For the second time in less than a year, Comcast is warning some customers that they will lose KCRA and a few other Hearst Television-owned stations will be dropped on out-of-market systems.
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Vallejo and Benicia division of Comcast will remove KCRA-TV because its west of the border where Sacramento and San Francisco TV DMA are divided within Solano County. according to this release Comcast will redirect KCRA-TV for Comcast owned KNTV NBC Bay Area.
 
Roku may drop YouTube TV over accusations of anti-competitive behavior by Google. I got an email from Roku this morning "explaining" the situation.

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Roku Says YouTube TV May Get Dropped, Accusing Google of Anticompetitive Behavior

UPDATED: Simmering tensions between Roku and Google have erupted into a full-blown fight. On Monday, Roku began warning YouTube TV customers that Google’s internet pay-TV service may go dark …
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KeithE4 said:
Roku may drop YouTube TV over accusations of anti-competitive behavior by Google. I got an email from Roku this morning "explaining" the situation.

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Roku Says YouTube TV May Get Dropped, Accusing Google of Anticompetitive Behavior

UPDATED: Simmering tensions between Roku and Google have erupted into a full-blown fight. On Monday, Roku began warning YouTube TV customers that Google’s internet pay-TV service may go dark …
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Dang I know in the past Dish network gets accused of disputes like this though. Now various TV apps are subject to disputes that came from a 1991 retrans act originally meant for cable TV.
 
KeithE4 said:
Roku may drop YouTube TV over accusations of anti-competitive behavior by Google. I got an email from Roku this morning "explaining" the situation.

variety.com

Roku Says YouTube TV May Get Dropped, Accusing Google of Anticompetitive Behavior

UPDATED: Simmering tensions between Roku and Google have erupted into a full-blown fight. On Monday, Roku began warning YouTube TV customers that Google’s internet pay-TV service may go dark …
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i can see all Youtube owned apps going bye bye on Roku for a while while Google and Roku do their negotiations. it's not just YouTube TV, it's also the YouTube app.
 
RadioPatrol said:
Streaming will have to accelerate sometime in this decade to avoid these disputes though given that you have Disney+, Paramount +, Peacock, Tubi and Pluto going direct to consumer by promoting their TV Streaming apps. The Issue here is does Nexstar, Scripps Sunbeam Sinclair, Tegna, Hearst, Meredith, Gray, Allen Media, COX, News Press Gazette and others that own local TV Stations that are dependent on the Cable carriage fees have a feasible and viable plan to adapt to the streaming age that is yet to be seen here.
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Umm I turned out wrong now that Amazon in the past has been accused of being in a dispute with Disney+ and now Roku is in a dispute with Youtube. I didn't think of TV apps being put in dispute in the same way Dish and Directv gets accused of being in disputes.
 
anotherguy said:
Is Roku still in a dispute with Spectrum? I haven't lost it but I'm not taking it off because of the danger of losing it.
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The dispute was still ongoing as of yesterday ( Monday26APR2021) I went on my ROKU device to watch the Sprectrum newscast and there was a warning, that if I deleted that app, I would not be able to regain that app, while negotiations were still ongoing. So , like you "anoterhguy" I don't dare delete or mess with the app in anyway!
 
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Maine abandons fight for law to require à la carte cable TV service

In February, a federal appeals court sided with the cable companies, which had argued that Maine's law was unconstitutional.
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The Maine Attorney General’s Office has given up its fight to defend a law that would have required cable TV providers to give subscribers the option of purchasing access to individual cable channels rather than bundled packages.
Maine lawmakers passed the first-of-its-kind measure in 2019, but cable companies quickly challenged it in federal court. They argued in part that the law violated their First Amendment rights by infringing on the “editorial discretion” of programmers and cable operators.

In December of that year, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Torresen issued an injunction to keep the law from taking effect, an initial victory for cable provider Comcast and the other plaintiffs. When the state challenged that injunction, a federal appeals court in Boston upheld it in February of this year. The case returned to Torresen to decide the underlying challenge to the law.
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www.theinformation.com

Disney’s Cancellation of Hulu Overseas Push Triggers Feud with Comcast

Tensions between Disney and Comcast over their joint ownership of Hulu are heating up. The two companies are feuding over Disney’s decision last year to not launch Hulu overseas, a move that Comcast believes undermined its growth potential and valuation. The issue has inflamed arbitration ...
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Note Hulu is joint venture for now with Disney having majority ownership of Hulu.
 


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