Posted on 07/16/2019 12:59:41 PM PDT by Brilliant
CBS is warning viewers that its stations could be blacked out on AT&T’s DirecTV and Uverse pay-TV services on July 19 and that the network could be pulled from streaming service DirecTV Now because of a dispute over programming fees.
CBS Logo “CBS would like to avoid being dropped, but unless an agreement is reached, our viewers should be prepared for DirecTV and AT&T Uverse TV to remove CBS-owned television stations,” CBS said in a statement Tuesday.
AT&T is currently in a retransmission consent fee dispute with Nexstar that has resulted in about 120 stations being blacked out for nearly two weeks. The two sides are talking...
AT&T said it was "disappointed to see CBS put our customers into the middle of negotiations."
In a statement, AT&T said it is "on the side of customer choice and value and wants to keep the local CBS stations in 14 affected cities in our customers’ lineups. Our goal is always to deliver the content our customers want at a value that also makes sense to them. We continue to fight hard for that here and appreciate our customers’ patience while we work this out with CBS."
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I have Direct Now and go through Roku. It’s cheap but the service sucks. Continually loading every 15 to 20 mins., sometimes more often. Many times, the audio is not aligned with the video and there are no channel numbers and the “last channel” on the remote does not work so you have to page through the damn guide if you want to change channels. They also spread out all the sports channels so if you want to jump from the race to a baseball game, you may have to scroll through 30 channels or more.
I use fubo.tv.
What will the newest CBS News Anchor Nora (Trump hater on Steroids) O’Donnell do?
We can only hope...
The Big Four should become The Big No More.
:: It’s probably a case of brinksmanship.... unfortunately. ::
Nah.
BLACKOUT NECESSARY
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I recommend Hulu if you have a good internet service. As good as cable and half the price (for the basic service).
I live very remote and we gave up Direct TV a couple years ago and live stream what we want to watch. We have so many options we have not gone back to the dark ages for sure. What we actually gave up was the high cost of full packages, nothing to watch, endless commercials, and the money games.
Not missing all the aggravation for sure. I think the satellite/cable is on the downhill slide and they did it to themselves.
CBS far better than CNN which ATT now owns.
Sounds good.
Things will more like when I wuz a kid. Play outside all day until dinner and then go back out for an hour or two in the Summer. Nothing better.
I enjoyed the fifties, but I don’t want to live in them all over again.
All of them dying is the preferred outcome.
It's the ABC stuff that's expensive led by ESPN and Disney. Shutting down CNN wouldn't really save them much money - if they lay off a bit more of the 'talent', it might be a break even for them.
This would be a great improvement!
Regardless, the end result is an increase in the cable bill.
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Strange. Advertisements are the lifeblood of broadcast television. That’s how they make money.
The cable companies and satellite providers collect money from customers based upon the number of channels provided, and number of premium channels provided. The consumer is ultimately paying twice for the provided service, once in the price of products they purchase, and then for the service provided by the satellite and cable providers.
In our area, Dish has started providing (free of charge) HD outside antennas for local over the air stations, and then dropping the local charge from customers bills.
The result is eventually this kind of brinkmanship by ABC, CBS, PBS, and FOX (demand for more money) will result with a decrease in revenue, when the remaining cable and satellite providers do the same and quit carrying the major networks.
As you said, “the end result is an increase in the cable bill.”
Consumers in urban areas have started turned to streaming, and over the air broadcasts with antennas. The only exception has been be rural areas, where the infrastructure doesn’t exist to provide streaming, and antennas don’t have the range needed to receive over the air broadcasts.
Who watches CBS?
Small loss.
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