stevieboy247 42 Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 Here is a full article of the story courtesy of the website TVPredictions.com Washington, D.C. (December 12, 2010) -- Hearst Television is warning that DIRECTV will lose the right to carry roughly 30 local stations on January 1 if the two companies don't reach a new programming pact by then. If a new agreement is not reached, DIRECTV viewers of those stations would lose both their SD and HD signals. The Hearst announcement is the latest salvo in the ongoing battle between programmers and TV providers over carriage fees. Subscribers to DIRECTV, Dish Network, Cablevision and others have lost access to their favorite channels for a period of time this year because their providers could not reach a new agreement before the old one expired.. In a statement released over the weekend, Hearst expressed confidence that it would reach a new deal with DIRECTV, but it said it wanted to alert the satcaster's viewers that they could lose the channels. “We believe that we and DirecTV can conclude our negotiations before January 1st so as not to deprive any of our respective viewers and customers of our programming. However, we want to advise our viewers and customers that the possibility of non-renewal of our current agreement exists," the statement read. By federal law, a TV provider can not carry a channel without its consent. The Hearst channels that could be pulled from DIRECTV are: Boston WCVB Manchester, NH WMUR Tampa, Florida WMOR Daytona Beach, Florida WESH Clermont, Florida WKCF Sacramento KCRA KQCA Pittsburgh WTAE Baltimore WBAL Kansas City, Missouri KMBC Cincinnati WLWT Milwaukee WISN Greenville, SC WYFF West Palm Beach WPBF Lancaster, PA WGAL Oklahoma City KOCO Albuquerque KOAT Winston Salem WXII Louisville WLKY New Orleans WDSU Honolulu KITV Hilo, Hawaii KHVO Wailuku, Hawaii KMAU Des Moines KCCI Omaha KETV Poland Spring, Maine WMTW Jackson, MS WAPT Burlington, Vermont WPTZ Hartford, Vermont WNNE Fort Smith, Arkansas KHBS, KHOG Salinas, CA KSBW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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