Retransmission Consent squabbles

[Megatron81 296]

I don't see the GOP controlled FCC will go through that Nexstar has to sell WPIX or they buy it outright maybe since the rules will be relaxed maybe Nexstar will own WPIX outright. Yup, The CW app is free. Altice is different name but can't get rid of the Cablevision smell out of it LOL.

 

I feel that Nexstar & Altice will come to an agreement in the next few months in my opinion than they will with MSG RSN. 

[NowBergen 718]

24 minutes ago, Megatron81 said:

I don't see the GOP controlled FCC will go through that Nexstar has to sell WPIX or they buy it outright maybe since the rules will be relaxed maybe Nexstar will own WPIX outright. 

That's a big if.  It didn't happen under the last GOP controlled Pai FCC. Who knows how long it will take to add a GOP member, right now it will be 2-2.  

[NowBergen 718]

Evidently Altice USA and Nexstar have come to an agreement.  Both Mission owned WPIX and Nexstar's  NewsNation are back on Optimum systems.  No notification from Optimum to their customers of course.  

[tyrannical bastard 4106]

Paramount may yank all of their channels (including ALL CBS O&O AND affiliates) from YouTube TV tomorrow if they don't reach an agreement...

 

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-tv-dispute-paramount-cbs-comedy-central-mtv-1236306040/

 

UPDATE:

If a deal is not reached, the channels are set to go dark tonight at 11pm ET.  And if there is an extended outage, YTTV customers can get an $8 bill credit...

Edited February 13 by tyrannical bastard
updated info

[tyrannical bastard 4106]

A "short-term deal extension" was granted for continued negotiations between Paramount and YouTubeTV.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/02/14/youtube-tv-paramount-cbs-deal/78594063007/

Edited February 14 by tyrannical bastard

[Yankees4life 566]

On 2/14/2025 at 3:17 PM, tyrannical bastard said:

A "short-term deal extension" was granted for continued negotiations between Paramount and YouTubeTV.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/02/14/youtube-tv-paramount-cbs-deal/78594063007/

CBS clearly asking Google to bail them out of their debts and Google is telling them to take a hike. Probably the first time in a while I'll side with Google here

[tyrannical bastard 4106]

Google has always been a good "cable" operator.  They told Diamond to take a hike with their RSNs and have had relatively few disruptions.  The only notable one I can recall was the Disney one in 2021 that took down their channels for a day or two.

[nathannah 2548]

1 hour ago, Yankees4life said:

CBS clearly asking Google to bail them out of their debts and Google is telling them to take a hike. Probably the first time in a while I'll side with Google here

Outside CBS, you just need Paramount+ because of all the repeats on their channels, and if there's a customer that'll walk because you lost MTV2 and Spongebobnet....I mean Nicktoons, they're beyond help.

Edited February 15 by nathannah

[MD TV 288]

2 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Google has always been a good "cable" operator.  They told Diamond to take a hike with their RSNs and have had relatively few disruptions.  The only notable one I can recall was the Disney one in 2021 that took down their channels for a day or two.

They did yank MLB Network a couple of years ago, but they're now available separately.

[tyrannical bastard 4106]

4 hours ago, MD TV said:

They did yank MLB Network a couple of years ago, but they're now available separately.

Not missed by me, like the RSNs.  Let the sports fans pay for their own games.

[AmericanErrorist 168]

Paramount and Google have reached a new carriage deal:

 

https://deadline.com/2025/02/paramount-youtube-tv-carriage-deal-cbs-1236288766/

[MD TV 288]

The dispute between MSG and Optimum is over:

 

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/optimum-and-msg-networks-agree-on-carriage-deal-302382817.html

[nathannah 2548]

On 9/11/2023 at 11:51 AM, nathannah said:

Official Disney PR.

 

They'll no longer carry a number of networks whose content was already on D+ and Hulu anyways, so put Freeform, FXX/FXM, Disney Junior/XD and Nat Geo Wild on deathwatch as far as other providers. In return, Spectrum customers will eventually get D+ and ESPN+ included in their subs and the ability to have an ESPN-free cable package.

And now two years later a new deal has been reached; all those networks are actually coming back to Spectrum, along with Hulu with ads access. 

 

I think we can easily see that Spectrum held out and Disney realized that fewer children watching their channels did make a difference in depressing their other properties, like Elio's box office performance last week; kids are not watching interviews with the adult voice actors on Good Morning America and certainly not The View (the only real prominent promotion I saw for the film). 

[Megatron81 296]

I was surprised that Freeform was dropped 2 years ago in my opinion from Spectrum Disney XD & Disney JR. should've remained dropped in my opinion.  

[nathannah 2548]

Flew under the radar and found out about it when it was added to the 'junk drawer' tier of my Spectrum system; apparently Herring and Spectrum came to an agreement to add both OAN and AWE to their systems in May, and they're starting to add it now.

 

Not questioning Spectrum because I'm sure they're laughing all the way to the bank with whatever little viewership OAN/AWE will provide to make that carriage deal (or maybe Herring finally realized overpricing his channels as 'premuim' was stupid in the long run).

Edited 11 hours ago by nathannah

[AmericanErrorist 168]

MeTV Toons has launched on DirecTV, in the channel slot formerly occupied by Universal Kids.

[mre29 1597]

2 hours ago, nathannah said:

Flew under the radar and found out about it when it was added to the 'junk drawer' tier of my Spectrum system; apparently Herring and Spectrum came to an agreement to add both OAN and AWE to their systems in May, and they're starting to add it now.

 

Fantastic. Spectrum drops News 12 Connecticut and promotes the NYC-focused Spectrum News NY1 to cable channel 1 despite my town being nearly two hours away from the city, but hey, now we can get far-right lies and a channel geared towards rich people. I love cable TV!  

 

[l_miro 10]

2 hours ago, nathannah said:

Flew under the radar and found out about it when it was added to the 'junk drawer' tier of my Spectrum system; apparently Herring and Spectrum came to an agreement to add both OAN and AWE to their systems in May, and they're starting to add it now.

 

Not questioning Spectrum because I'm sure they're laughing all the way to the bank with whatever little viewership OAN/AWE will provide to make that carriage deal (or maybe Herring finally realized overpricing his channels as 'premuim' was stupid in the long run).

 

Spectrum, at most, will get ad inserts in the ad breaks that they can sell. The "rumor" is they get around $0.14 per sub per month, so at 35 mil homes Herring is snapping $5 mil per month for retrans. They had ~14K viewers in any given minute during a Nielsen test in 2019 but they aren't paying to track them.