Dish / Gannett Dispute Settled! No Channel Removals!
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WUSA is still up, however I thought 11:59 tonight was the games up time? Do the powers that be really care that much about the customer to work on this thru the weekend?
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There is no working on this through the weekend. Either Dish agrees to disable Auto Hop or pay a huge rate increase or, as the Soup Nazi says, "No WUSA for you!!!" That's the ultimatum issues by Gannett and I'm sure it's a tactics all the other major broadcasters will employ as other carriage agreements expire.
While I haven't scrolled through all pages related to the topic, the main page says the channels will go off air Monday morning, not Sunday. Were they to go off today? Is there something I missed? Both WXIA and WATL are still up in Atlanta.
I agree and said close to that before. I think Dish needs to get the Skip feature squared away as being legal. Once they do that it becomes easier. Gannett is trying to circumvent the Court by forcing this now. (Though in the end it's all about money for them - they'll take even more money and return let the Skip feature stay)
Should be considered illegal the problem goes away, until some other technology comes along, which it will.
Its midnight TONIGHT (per Kare site)
Starting October 8, KARE11 may no longer be available on DISH.
KARE11 had a quick blurb after SNL (which gets done at 12:02 here) and said tonight you may lose Kare11 if you have Dish...then had the scroll during the next program
Starting October 8, KARE11 may no longer be available on DISH.
KARE11 had a quick blurb after SNL (which gets done at 12:02 here) and said tonight you may lose Kare11 if you have Dish...then had the scroll during the next program
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Well, my OTA Antenna's were wiped out by the big June storm here. Guess job one this week is to finally get it fixed. That's what I get for being lazy!
you must have been watching it on My20 in Denver which is owned by Gannett
(only stations carrying that game were TWCS Los Angeles, My20, and CSN Bay Area)
I don't understand why dish, or any other tv provider has to pay any local network to have the local netowork single "go through" dish's equipment when the single is free to start with over the air. Can somebody explain that?
Many of us here have discussed that in many threads, they are on the one hand protected by the FCC from any competition, and in exchange have to give a free signal. There are more than ever many places that signal does not reach. If not for Dish and other carriers, many would never see their signal. And on the other hand yet they charge to be on Cable/Satellite. In the strictest sense, Dish should be able to capture that free signal and retransmit it, as long as they were not charging anything over their cost to provide it. Like that's going to happen...
Some would say the locals should be paying the carriers....
Some would say the locals should be paying the carriers....
Very good points.
That's where I have to give props to Charlie.He believes that locals should be free to carry.With autohop he fills justified.Either provide us with your channels for free with commercials or Dish will pay you and use autohop.The broadcasters have been getting their cake and eating too for many years now.I hope it changes but,it will be a hard fight to win.
