Tegna (Gannett) stations to possibly be dropped TONIGHT

[Mr Tony]

While watching the SNL X-Mas thing that was on tonight I saw a crawl on KARE 11 (NBC) that it may be dropped from directv 10/3 at 10:59PM...

Thats tonight! This would affect all Tegna (Gannett) stations

http://static.kare11.com/DIRECTV/

Starting at 11 p.m. December 3, KARE may not be available on DIRECTV. That means you could lose access to your favorite NBC programming, including NFL Sunday Night Football, entertainment programming such as The Voice, Law & Order: SVU, Chicago PD and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, as well as your local news, weather and sports.

 

[Mr Tony]

List of Tegna stations

http://rabbitears.info/search.php?request=owner_search&owner=Tegna

 

[DJ Lon]

I was watching the SNL Christmas special yesterday and my local Tegna station was running a crawl at the top of the screen saying DirecTV subscribers may likely lose access to 12News and NBC programming at 9:59 PM on December 3rd.

First I've heard of this.

http://static.12news.com/DIRECTV/

 

[Mr Tony]

by the way I saw the scroll OTA

 

[Mr Tony]

beat ya by a couple minutes
http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/thr...ations-to-possibly-be-dropped-tonight.355463/

 

[DJ Lon]

beat ya by a couple minutes
http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/thr...ations-to-possibly-be-dropped-tonight.355463/

Haha I know as soon as mine posted I saw yours

 

[Mr Tony]

Haha I know as soon as mine posted I saw yours

Its all good. Funny how we both saw it while watching the same program

 

[Mr Tony]

love this question on their site

Didn’t your station just have a service disruption with DISH?

 

[DJ Lon]

Its all good. Funny how we both saw it while watching the same program

Yeah, it makes you wonder about how coordinated these efforts are to get the viewers riled up

 

[Willh699]

is AT&T U-Verse affected by this dispute due to AT&T's recent buyout of DirecTV.

i bet those who just switched to DirecTV from Dish during the TEGNA/Dish dispute back in October are feeling Deja Vu.

BTW: i'm still with Dish at the moment and my household has been thinking about switching to DirecTV on and off since mid February. around that time, we were having issues with the VIP 722K DVRs and then upgraded to the Hopper.

 

[Mr Tony]

is AT&T U-Verse affected by this dispute due to AT&T's recent buyout of DirecTV.

I dont think so. They are still considered 2 separate things

 

[Jimbo]

Ice,
You typed the disruption date as being 10/3 in your original post .... that was a long time ago.

Will,
While we don't know who is doing the negotiating now that the companies are combined, however D* has had a very good track record as far at getting contracts completed or extended over the years .... most stations don't go black, if they do they are usually for a short time frame.

I think we can count on one hand the number of lengthy holdouts.

 

[raoul5788]

Merged threads.

 

[Mr Tony]

Ice,
You typed the disruption date as being 10/3 in your original post .... that was a long time ago.

whoops. Yeah meant DECEMBER 3rd

Will,
While we don't know who is doing the negotiating now that the companies are combined, however D* has had a very good track record as far at getting contracts completed or extended over the years .... most stations don't go black, if they do they are usually for a short time frame.

Dish just had the same issue in Ocotber and it was dropped for 36 hours. DIrectv usually gets extensions with the owners

 

[Willh699]

in a update, i saw the scroll on WFAA today and it answered my question on "Is U-Verse affected" and the answer is yes.

so tonight, TEGNA owned stations go dark on both DirecTV and U-Verse.

 

[Rolling Joe]

by the way I saw the scroll OTA

Yep. Nothing like annoying the entire viewing base. My Tegna stations (CBS and CW) run that crawl twice an hour. I've switched my CBS and CW recordings to Bell TV for the duration.

 

[Joe891]

I think the best part of the article is how many times they mention what happened with dish

 

[Joe Capitano]

UPDATE: Checking KING/5's website just now it seems there's a 24-hour extension. So we'll have to undergo another day's worth of this nonsense.

At least NBC can take it easy. A lot of west coasters won't miss what's left of "The Wiz." Personally I missed a good amount of that because of what CBS was running.

 

[Mr Tony]

Yep. Nothing like annoying the entire viewing base.

agreed. But it isnt as bad as when Sinclair and Dish were at battle. Seemed like the scroll was after every commercial break

 

[Jimbo]

Soo, did the feed go down or did they work it out ?