Raycom & Dish still quareling? -Dispute Settled. channels back 8/9
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I do know that when I visited Wilmington (NC) several weeks ago, I drove by the WECT studios and discovered WSFX in the same building - so, yeah they're "in bed" together. The WECT news crew also does WSFX's 10pm news.
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Just chatted w a csr so take w a grain of salt...
Was told raycom is asking for 4x the amount than the previous agreement but raycom has shown they are willing to negotiate
Was told raycom is asking for 4x the amount than the previous agreement but raycom has shown they are willing to negotiate
What was funny tonight. On the nightly local news they were running a crawl and mentioned in a piece that Dish customers still couldn't get their station. But if one thinks about it. If you can only get the station via Dish then you would never see what was being said or the crawl since it can't be seen anyway.
Our station is telling Dish customers they still cant get the station and they should call Dish for a credit.
It is pretty interesting to note that there hasn't been as much of the usual howling when these negotiations break down. I suppose that is because the broadcast stations have so few really great shows right now to make some of us not really care a whole lot that the stations are dark on Dish.
I know that for me there is only one show on our local CBS that I care about, Under the Dome, but it isn't exactly a great show, just a fairly good one. I've decided that if the next episode comes and goes without the deal being made, I'll just erase the rest of the episodes. Since I've read the book it isn't compelling!
It also affects our local CW, but it is a very low power station, with horrible bit-starved SD no matter how you get it, that I watch all their shows via IPTV.
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I know that for me there is only one show on our local CBS that I care about, Under the Dome, but it isn't exactly a great show, just a fairly good one. I've decided that if the next episode comes and goes without the deal being made, I'll just erase the rest of the episodes. Since I've read the book it isn't compelling!
It also affects our local CW, but it is a very low power station, with horrible bit-starved SD no matter how you get it, that I watch all their shows via IPTV.
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It is pretty interesting to note that there hasn't been as much of the usual howling when these negotiations break down. I suppose that is because the broadcast stations have so few really great shows right now to make some of us not really care a whole lot that the stations are dark on Dish.
I know that for me there is only one show on our local CBS that I care about, Under the Dome, but it isn't exactly a great show, just a fairly good one. I've decided that if the next episode comes and goes without the deal being made, I'll just erase the rest of the episodes. Since I've read the book it isn't compelling!
It also affects our local CW, but it is a very low power station, with horrible bit-starved SD no matter how you get it, that I watch all their shows via IPTV.
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True, its a quiet time. I feel bad for the TWC people that lost Showtime, Ray Donovan is a good show.
I remember a dispute with TW a few years ago and it was making no progress until they approached the week of many show's new seasons starting. They all of a sudden worked things out !
Also, Bright House Networks (which is my local cable, used to be TWC) lost Showtime as well. Glad I don't have cable right now.
I swear, the hits just keep coming for OTA use in Charlotte, huh? First they apparently refuse to correct the guide data from the recent FOX/CW channel swap, and now we lose the CBS guide data, too. 
The CC&Rs can say anything they want, but that rule conflicts with federal law, thus is unenforceable.
I just got off of chat with DISH, and they are sending 2 usb modules for my Hoppers for free. Took a little negotiating about how they should provide value during these negotiations but they were very pleasant to deal with. Now when I get them I just need to hook it up to my OTA antenna in the attic I used with my Vip722
Dish's biggest mistake was to agree to roll locals into the base package. They should have kept it separate and charge each market according to what the stations in that market charge. That way the consumer has the choice to take the locals or not.
That makes no sense. Not that they couldn't have kept the locals separate but part about charging each market according to what the stations charge. That would mean that one market could be say 2.99 and the one next door could have to be 5.99 due to having different companies wanting to charge more. Why should a customer get charged more in one place than another?
If the company that owns your locals is greedy, you should pay more than I do when the company that owns mine is not. Simple math.
Won't work. It would be near impossible for them to advertise that. Oh you are getting screwed compared to your neighbor down the street just cause you are in a different zip code. Not a good idea at all. They did it right roll all of it into one price.
