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The Programming Disputes Thread

Jonathan7157 said:
Dispute between Altice (the new Cablevision) and the ABC Networks.

Question is, does this affect all of the ABC stations Altice serves, which is not just the O&Os, but the affiliates of ABC as well, even though they may have separate contracts?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ose-espn-abc-another-contract-dispute-n802301
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it would be just the 8 ABC O&O's as they are owned by Disney
NY
LA
Chicago
Philly
San Fran
Raleigh
Houston
Fresno

Now obviously Cablevision isnt in all those areas
 
Jonathan7157 said:
Dispute between Altice (the new Cablevision) and the ABC Networks.

Question is, does this affect all of the ABC stations Altice serves, which is not just the O&Os, but the affiliates of ABC as well, even though they may have separate contracts?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ose-espn-abc-another-contract-dispute-n802301
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There was an article in The Bristol Press this morning stating ESPN is trying to force Altice to carry their SEC and ACC Networks and to that I give both middle fingers to ESPN.
 
MarcB said:
There was an article in The Bristol Press this morning stating ESPN is trying to force Altice to carry their SEC and ACC Networks and to that I give both middle fingers to ESPN.
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seems odd as ACC Network (the tv station) doesnt go live for 2 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACC_Network_(TV_channel)

There is the ACC Network right now...but its syndicated sports via Raycom. The ACC Network extra is a streaming service of other sports from the ACC. Its on the ESPN app
 
But Cablevision is in large portions of NYC with countless subscribers. This would be a huge loss if WABC goes away.
 
Merideth Broadcasting stations maybe be dropped by DIRECTV/AT&T tomorrow.

Here in Hartford that's just CBS affiliate WFSB. But north of the border in Springfield, Mass it's CBS, ABC, and FOX.

What happened in Springfield? Merideth entered Springfield around 20 years ago with the purchase of LPTV Channel 67 from TBN. They made it a CBS affiliate and a semi-satellite of WFSB in Hartford. WSHM-LP "CBS TV 3". Fast forward to 2014 or 2015. Merideth purchased ABC affiliate WGGB ABC 40 which also has the FOX affiliation on channel 40.2 "FOX 6".
 
http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/107504/retrans-rhetoric-heating-up-on-both-sides/format/print

An Editorial on Contract disputes

Satellite Business News -- With an unusual number of retransmission consent disputes percolating at the moment, the war of words between video services and the broadcast industry resumed this week even as some of the companies involved reached yet another series of short-term extensions.

The spokesman for The American TV Alliance—which counts AT&T, Dish Network, Verizon, and several programmers as members— took to the airwaves in one market which has seen viewers lose TV stations to blast broadcasters.

In an interview on a Columbus, Ohio, radio station owned by IHeart Media, the group’s Trent Duffy said the current retransmission consent law is “totally rigged” in favor of broadcasters.

As reported, Columbus is one of two markets where AT&T’s DirecTV DBS and ‘U-verse’ wireline services have lost local stations as a result of the expiration of retransmission consent agreements with The Dispatch Broadcast Group.

That has resulted in the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, and the CBS affiliate in Columbus going dark on the DirecTV and “U-verse” services.

“Plain and simple, [broadcasters] just want more money from the consumers who use those services,” Duffy said.

Local stations, he added, “can yank” their stations from video services and are “in the driver’s seat” in negotiations with video services.

Broadcasters “are out of line because they can ask for whatever they want,” Duffy said, and the fees paid by consumers to watch local stations are the “fastest rising part” of the monthly subscriptions consumers pay.

Broadcasters “claim it’s a fair market [system], but all it’s doing is it’s lining the pockets of TV executives in New York and Hollywood,” he added. Duffy specifically mentioned CBS Chairman Les Moonves in his comments.

The current retrans “rules are ancient, they’re rigged in favor of the broadcasters, and it’s time to update them or get rid of them entirely,” Duffy said.

Not to be outdone, the broadcast industry’s own lobbying group distributed an often sarcastic statement targeting AT&T and DirecTV.

The group, which mostly saves its most pejorative comments for Dish Network, said it is “not Dish Network…which usually wins first prize in the contest for pay-TV company most hostile to consumers. Nope, this year’s blue ribbon goes to AT&T—the massively consolidated Ma Bell look-alike that owns both telco pay-TV [service] ‘U-Verse’ and ginormous satellite pay-TV [service] DirecTv. Combined, AT&T’s ‘U-Verse’ and DirecTv account for a whopping 52 percent of every retransmission consent disruption in 2017.”

The broadcasters accused AT&T of employing “bully boy tactics” because “with a market capitalization that may match the size of some small countries, [the company] forces stations off the air for one reason, and one reason only: Because it can! And if local TV viewers have to suffer, so be it.”
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American Spirit mainly consists of Fox stations, but it does affect KAUZ (CBS) Wichita Falls.
 
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