tyrannical bastard 3926 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 AFAIK, Sinclair is NOT involved in these disputes, as it shouldn't be. This is a case of a group of licensees who for some unknown reason, have ignored the need to negotiate with AT&T to restore their stations to UVerse and DirecTV. There may be a boilerplate standard these stations work off from but it is ultimately up to the license holder(s) to negotiate. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-228138 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3926 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 And now there was Nexstar and AT&T..... That's two more channels gone from my DirecTV service. Alongside WPMI and WJTC which have been gone for over a month now. And like the last one, little or no warning, and AT&T yanks the signal at a moment's notice. They can go to hell. This is the final straw with them. They are so gone when my contract is up. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-228858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman748 1256 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 On 6/20/2019 at 12:23 PM, tyrannical bastard said: AFAIK, Sinclair is NOT involved in these disputes, as it shouldn't be. This is a case of a group of licensees who for some unknown reason, have ignored the need to negotiate with AT&T to restore their stations to UVerse and DirecTV. There may be a boilerplate standard these stations work off from but it is ultimately up to the license holder(s) to negotiate. Which in that case it would be Cunningham. Not only that but one would think that holding your own stations off of DirecTV for this long, should ultimately go against your qualifications as far as license renewal is concerned. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-228862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3926 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 2 hours ago, oknewsguy said: Which in that case it would be Cunningham. Not only that but one would think that holding your own stations off of DirecTV for this long, should ultimately go against your qualifications as far as license renewal is concerned. Cunningham, Deerfield (Manhan), Howard Stirk, and all of the other beard companies that run Sinclair's extra stations. Whether or not there's collusion between ANY of these groups, the fact that they are doing NOTHING to resolve this dispute is unacceptable. At least in AT&T's eyes, they are "working with Nexstar behind the scenes" to get their stations back. I'm not holding my breath, since it was Nexstar that created this game of holding pay tv companies and viewers hostage when they couldn't cut a deal. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-228864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megatron81 255 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 Not that AT&T & DirecTV viewers can see the message that Nexstar has running on Wood TV, WOTV & WXSP telling them to bring the TV stations back. Which if the TV stations go dark don't run a scroll 24/7 use the stations website for that. AT&T has message on those channels that are effected saying how Nexstar is wrong. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-228872 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman748 1256 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 12 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: Cunningham, Deerfield (Manhan), Howard Stirk, and all of the other beard companies that run Sinclair's extra stations. Whether or not there's collusion between ANY of these groups, the fact that they are doing NOTHING to resolve this dispute is unacceptable. It's clear to me that this is where needs to open up an investigation into possible Collusion between Cunningham and Sinclair and actually run it concurrently with the Lack of Candor investigation the FCC is doing on Sinclair itself. It's WAYYYYY overdue for the FCC to start holding Sinclair and their related broadcasting "companies" accountible for their actions Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-228886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOMatrix 1299 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 On 7/4/2019 at 10:51 AM, tyrannical bastard said: And now there was Nexstar and AT&T..... That's two more channels gone from my DirecTV service. Alongside WPMI and WJTC which have been gone for over a month now. And like the last one, little or no warning, and AT&T yanks the signal at a moment's notice. They can go to hell. This is the final straw with them. They are so gone when my contract is up. Million-dollar question, did the Nexstar shells (Mission, Vaughan, Marshall) get pulled off DirecTV and U-Verse as well? Or just the Nexstar-owned stations? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-228899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3926 Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Looks like it's only the Nexstar stations. I checked websites for WYTV and OzarksFirst.com. WYTV says nothing of an outage (so they're likely unaffected) and the OzarksFirst.com notification only applies to KOZL and KRBK, which are owned by Nexstar directly. KOLR is likely unaffected since they're a Mission station. In other words, the shells should be business as usual. It's the directly owned stations that are bearing the dispute unlike what's going on at Sinclair, where it's all of the sidecars.... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-228904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1955 Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) The Meredith stations could be removed from Dish Network on Monday Night at 7pm/ET. Edited July 13, 2019 by CircleSeven Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3926 Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, CircleSeven said: The Meredith stations could be removed from Dish Network on Monday Night at 7pm/ET. Thank goodness it's not AT&T, or that would knock out ALL of the Mobile affiliates, and leave only WEAR/WFGX, the PBS affiliates (WSRE & APT), and infomercial channels WFBD and WAWD on DirecTV. At least there's a warning about this. Dish seems like a good company anymore with all of the shenanigans AT&T is pulling on its customers. Edited July 13, 2019 by tyrannical bastard Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3926 Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 ...and Meredith is now gone from Dish, several hours before a midnight (PT) deadline, and a day-long extension by both parties to continue negotating.... https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/236899/dish-drops-meredith-owned-stations/ And now, CBS is the latest group to go to war with AT&T (at least it's only the O&O stations, but could be another blow to AT&T) https://deadline.com/2019/07/cbs-warns-of-potential-directv-and-att-u-verse-blackouts-in-17-markets-1202647179/ Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DetroitTVNews 66 Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 On 7/16/2019 at 9:45 PM, tyrannical bastard said: And now, CBS is the latest group to go to war with AT&T (at least it's only the O&O stations, but could be another blow to AT&T) https://deadline.com/2019/07/cbs-warns-of-potential-directv-and-att-u-verse-blackouts-in-17-markets-1202647179/ Just saw a crawl about this on WKBD. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DENDude 216 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 They say that CBS is blacked out on DirecTV/U-Verse I have DirecTV & KCNC is still on my line up (Around 1:50AM, MDT), Unless I missed something here.. Smithsonian & CBS Sports Network went off at 12:03 AM today. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229489 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickman360 21 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 I have DirecTV Now and CBS must really be playing hardball because not only did they pull WUPA here in Atlanta they also yanked WGCL (which isn’t even owned by CBS Corporation!) off too Even though on AT&T/DirecTV website it says CBS here in Atlanta would not be affected Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DetroitTVNews 66 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Hickman360 said: I have DirecTV Now and CBS must really be playing hardball because not only did they pull WUPA here in Atlanta they also yanked WGCL (which isn’t even owned by CBS Corporation!) off too Even though on AT&T/DirecTV website it says CBS here in Atlanta would not be affected The irony of that, I believe WGCL has also been affected by the Dish-Metedith dispute. This may mean satellite customers in the Atlanta market may be without CBS in any form. On 7/12/2019 at 10:14 PM, tyrannical bastard said: Thank goodness it's not AT&T, or that would knock out ALL of the Mobile affiliates, and leave only WEAR/WFGX, the PBS affiliates (WSRE & APT), and infomercial channels WFBD and WAWD on DirecTV. Reminds me of what Dish customers in the Traverse City market in Michigan had to deal with at one point in 2015. They were left with only CMUPT (PBS) on Dish as the respective owners of 9&10/WFQX and 7&9/29&8 were both in the midst of disputes with Dish. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DENDude 216 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 KCNC Was pulled at Noon MDT today, they were in the middle of airing a promo for an upcoming newscast and it went off. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DetroitTVNews 66 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 (edited) Right now, half of the nation's satellite subscribers are without CBS. CBS O&Os? Out. Nexstar-owned CBS affiliates? Out. Meredith-owned CBS affiliates? Out. KSWT Yuma-El Centro, KVIQ-LP Eureka, and WXVT-LD Greenville-Greenwood. All owned by Northwest Broadcasting, whose stations have been off of AT&T services since freaking February. Watch ratings for Big Brother drop, and watch as other broadcasters may end up in new retransmission disputes, potentially cutting off CBS access to even more satellite subscribers. Edited July 20, 2019 by DetroitTVNews 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hickman360 21 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 3 hours ago, DetroitTVNews said: The irony of that, I believe WGCL has also been affected by the Dish-Metedith dispute. This may mean satellite customers in the Atlanta market may be without CBS in any form. Reminds me of what Dish customers in the Traverse City market in Michigan had to deal with at one point in 2015. They were left with only CMUPT (PBS) on Dish as the respective owners of 9&10/WFQX and 7&9/29&8 were both in the midst of disputes with Dish. Yep I believe all satellites subscribers in the Atlanta market currently do not have WGCL on their lineup because of the Dish/Meredith dispute and the AT&T-DirecTV/CBS dispute Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
atlnews2 590 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 Interestingly enough WPCH is not affected by the Dish-Meredith dispute. Parents have Dish and currently still get WPCH More disputes on the way - this time between Dish/Sling and Fox Sports Net https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/sling-tv-dish-may-soon-drop-regional-fox-sports-network/ Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alrdenver82 21 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 2 hours ago, DENDude said: KCNC Was pulled at Noon MDT today, they were in the middle of airing a promo for an upcoming newscast and it went off. Glad I don't have DirecTV anymore, I can get them over the air and through CBS All Access, it's the better way to go. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenShine9 1512 Posted July 20, 2019 Share Posted July 20, 2019 It seems 90% of disputes either involve Dish or AT&T. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3926 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 (edited) Has a single provider (AT&T) ever been in this many prolonged disputes at one time? This is why AT&T should have NEVER purchased Time Warner. Even Comcast hasn't resorted to standoffs like these despite their mega merger with NBCUniversal. It's like this merger needs to be undone. NOW. Much like the KYW swap in the 60s. Our DOJ should be ashamed of themselves for letting this happen. End rant. Edited July 21, 2019 by tyrannical bastard 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius22 122 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 5 hours ago, DetroitTVNews said: Right now, half of the nation's satellite subscribers are without CBS. CBS O&Os? Out. Nexstar-owned CBS affiliates? Out. Meredith-owned CBS affiliates? Out. KSWT Yuma-El Centro, KVIQ-LP Eureka, and WXVT-LD Greenville-Greenwood. All owned by Northwest Broadcasting, whose stations have been off of AT&T services since freaking February. Watch ratings for Big Brother drop, and watch as other broadcasters may end up in new retransmission disputes, potentially cutting off CBS access to even more satellite subscribers. and whats sad, majority of Nexstar's stations are CBS. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVIntheDesert 183 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Now that Kidvid has been "overhauled," maybe the FCC can get to retransmission reform. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenShine9 1512 Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said: Has a single provider (AT&T) ever been in this many prolonged disputes at one time? This is why AT&T should have NEVER purchased Time Warner. Even Comcast hasn't resorted to standoffs like these despite their mega merger with NBCUniversal. It's like this merger needs to be undone. NOW. Much like the KYW swap in the 60s. Our DOJ should be ashamed of themselves for letting this happen. End rant. Although, DirecTV was infamous for disputes even before AT&T took over. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/15949-retransmission-consent-squabbles/page/6/#findComment-229525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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