Millions of Dish customers lose CBS signals, face Thanksgiving without network's football

LA Times ^ | November 21, 2017 | Meg James

[EdnaMode]

Sounds like a good thing to me!

[BenLurkin]

fcbsfnfl

[stylin19a]

air TV won’t work for CBS ?

[McGavin999]

Who is watching NFL?

[CMSMC]

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

[tcrlaf]

So, CBS will have to refund ad money?

Yeah, fat chance...

[ConservativeWarrior]

The only downside here is the loss of college football.

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

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

The air is still free.

[day10]

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

Also, these folks need to cut the cord.

[upsdriver]

A Thanksgiving Day without football sounds good to me.

[granite]

The new “Excuse du jour” for empty seats.

[Fiddlstix]

[Parley Baer]

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

[Buckeye McFrog]

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.

[Lent]

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

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

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.....

[garyb]

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.

[grey_whiskers]

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

[joesbucks]

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