another TEGNA/DirecTV dispute happening again, TEGNA contract with DirecTV expires on Nov 30 at 8 PM ET
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Guess I should call DTV and get one of those LCC's? How many can you get per household? Online chat of course is busy. I guess calling in would be the same way?
update on WFAA, it seems that DirecTV forgot to shut the SD feed off at the same time the HD feed went bye bye.
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another update, guess someone at DirecTV must have read this cause now the SD of WFAA is gone too.
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I got mine till around 10 pm... now gone ...
Fwiw, D* / ATT didn't pull them, the network removed them.
no, the correct term is they pulled them per orders of TEGNA, as no deal means they got hit with a C&D note from TEGNA to remove the channels as soon as contract expires.
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Which means that TEGNA told D* to remove them ... which means TEGNA pulled them.
I should have said the Network Owner removed them previously.
I’m about to lose 3 locals because of Nexstar being stupid with Dish. Will someone let us know once the Tegna locals are back on Directv? There would be 1 channel impacted for us there. I realize that this is not Dish or Directv’s fault. The local media groups are money hungry. I hate that dish still does not have the Fox Sports Nets. I might be willing to leave for FSN and only missing 1 local.
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I just did an online chat with DTV to get the LCC but he said their are in the final negotiations to bring back to the Tegna stations.
Want to bet the rep was told to say that so they wouldn't have to send out LCC's?
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He did say you could get the LCC at the ATT Store and that was wrong.
KUSA in Denver is showing the dispute screen. Being the cheep SOB that I am, I called ‘D and after a 15 wait on hold, I complained. The rep looked at my account and gave a $20 one time credit. Gotta be nice when you call or they can be just unmoving and useless.
I have Dish and we have the Nexstar thing going on. But my friend called, as he has Direct and Tegna KGW Portland in gone. Glad I do have the OTA antenna. He could have an OTA antenna, but considering how ,many disputes there are, I would think the land would be peppered with many outdoor antennas, but there are not that many. Some may get some OTA TV from an indoor antenna, but they probably would not get the weakest translators.
I tried again to get the LCC. I used online chat and the lady was nice and said she ordered me one and I would get an email showing the Fedex tracking number on it. Would get it at no charge. So far no email yet. She also said ATT would do a confirmation phone call on it. Got that but their computer was slow and couldn't check on it. The guy also said the disputed channel would also be blacked out on the LCC.
That's what I told him but he still insisted on it. Maybe he figured since the LCC is connected to the HR-44 it would detect the Tenga blacked out station on the LCC also?
Doesn't Directv put up a slate on the "-1" channel during a dispute, forcing you to hit channel up to actually show the real OTA channel?
I thought someone said such a change had been made for OTA a year or two ago. Maybe that's what he's talking about, and doesn't know there's a way around it?
I called and requested a LCC and was told they sent one in January. I told them they canceled that order and never sent it. He then said they would need to transfer me to Tech support as there was a problem with my system. I repeated the story to tech support who took a while but said they were able to order a LCC. She gave me a confirmation number and said would receive it in 3 business days. I am not holding my breath.
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