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Millions of Dish customers lose CBS signals, face Thanksgiving without network's football
LA Times ^ | November 21, 2017 | Meg James

Posted on 11/21/2017 12:40:09 PM PST by EdnaMode

Nearly 3 million Dish Network subscribers in 18 cities, including Los Angeles, have lost access to their local CBS television station — just two days before Thanksgiving, when many Americans want to watch NFL football.

The blackout comes amid a contentious fee dispute between satellite TV provider Dish Network and CBS Corp., which owns the television stations. Customers in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Miami, San Francisco, Denver and other markets also were hit by the blackout, which in addition to the local stations includes three CBS cable channels: CBS Sports Network, Smithsonian Channel and Pop.

Dish has nearly 400,000 subscriber homes in the greater Los Angeles area.

“Dish subscribers are in jeopardy of being without CBS over the Thanksgiving holiday, which would mean they would miss CBS Sports’ NFL and SEC football coverage,” CBS said in a statement.

CBS is set to broadcast the NFL matchup between the Chargers and the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving.

“I am very upset. Why does the customer always have to suffer in these situations?” asked Jerry Horn, a Dish customer in Narrowsburg, N.Y. “We pay the bills. … Keep us connected during contract disputes!”

The outage knocked WCBS-TV Channel 2 in New York — one of Horn’s favorite stations — from his channel offerings. “I am going to miss ‘NCIS,’ ‘Bull’ and ‘NCIS New Orleans,’” Horn said, referencing popular CBS shows.

The outage began at 11 p.m. PST on Monday. That’s when the companies’ previous carriage contract expired, leaving Dish without authorization to retransmit the signals of CBS stations. The two sides had been trying to hammer out a new contract since January with little progress, according to one person familiar with the matter but was not authorized to comment publicly.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cbs; commieball; dienfldie; dish; dishnetwork; football; nfl; thanksgiving; whocares
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Sounds like a good thing to me!
1 posted on 11/21/2017 12:40:09 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

fcbsfnfl


2 posted on 11/21/2017 12:41:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

air TV won’t work for CBS ?


3 posted on 11/21/2017 12:41:42 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever.)
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To: EdnaMode

Who is watching NFL?


4 posted on 11/21/2017 12:41:59 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EdnaMode

I won’t miss it, but wife will fuss about not being able to watch Wheel of Fortune.


5 posted on 11/21/2017 12:43:59 PM PST by CMSMC
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To: EdnaMode

So, CBS will have to refund ad money?

Yeah, fat chance...


6 posted on 11/21/2017 12:44:14 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: McGavin999

The only downside here is the loss of college football.

I’ve found it to be an excellent replacement for the NFL.


7 posted on 11/21/2017 12:45:23 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: stylin19a

The air is still free.


8 posted on 11/21/2017 12:45:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: stylin19a

Like you say, seems like a $20 digital antenna would solve this issue.

Also, these folks need to cut the cord.


9 posted on 11/21/2017 12:46:13 PM PST by day10 (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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To: EdnaMode

A Thanksgiving Day without football sounds good to me.


10 posted on 11/21/2017 12:47:52 PM PST by upsdriver (I support Sarah Palin.)
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To: EdnaMode

The new “Excuse du jour” for empty seats.


11 posted on 11/21/2017 12:48:31 PM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: EdnaMode


12 posted on 11/21/2017 12:50:14 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: EdnaMode

I rarely watch anything on CBS so it would be no loss to me.


13 posted on 11/21/2017 12:50:16 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: day10

My brother has Dish. They are offering to come and install an over-the-air digital antenna for free. Sounds to me like they want to get off the treadmill of constantly negotiating rebroadcast rights.


14 posted on 11/21/2017 12:51:05 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: EdnaMode

Anybody watching these UNGRATEFUL NFL jack@sses on the DAY of Thanksgiving is desecrating the day. NFL sucks bad drumsticks.


15 posted on 11/21/2017 12:52:11 PM PST by Lent
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To: EdnaMode
The blackout comes amid a contentious fee dispute between satellite TV provider Dish Network and CBS Corp., which owns the television stations.

When cable TV first started rolling, the OTA networks did not ask for retransmission fees. The only ones who got fees were the premium ad free channels ... HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Pay-per-view.

As far as I know, the big four show even MORE ads than they did in that era (early '70s), and they have cheaped out on most shows' production costs, and the ones with high production costs still make it up in reruns/syndication (which makes up for declining first-run viewership). What a racket. It cannot last.
16 posted on 11/21/2017 12:52:55 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: day10
Also, these folks need to cut the cord.

Many millions of Americans can't get unthrottled broadband, you know.

At our house we are limited to 5mbps DSL or wireless with a 40G per month cap. Can't do much with Netflix, Hulu, etc on those terms.....

17 posted on 11/21/2017 12:54:34 PM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Daughter lives deep-in-the-heart-of-Texas in a over-the-air TV free zone, in an apartment, not a chance of getting a free TV channel.

She can stream anime from the internet, all is well with the world.

Cord cutter and antenna cutter.

18 posted on 11/21/2017 12:54:50 PM PST by garyb (What if you can't trust the voice in your head?)
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To: EdnaMode

“Hide the decline”: not just for climate change any more.


19 posted on 11/21/2017 12:55:11 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are silly those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: EdnaMode

It’s why I keep an over the air antenna for situations such as this.


20 posted on 11/21/2017 12:56:10 PM PST by joesbucks
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