Loss of channels

What liars you are it is now November and still NO NBC.  What settlement was made? So what excuses are you going to give us now? Every time I have called to find out what is going on I'm told something different or " I understand" what kind of an explanation is that?  STOP LIEING to us.  You keep taking things away and charging more.  Here's what you can take away the how many hundred music channels and the Hispanic channels that I DO NOT watch.  It all looks good when you send your people around to sign people up  "Oh look your getting 300 channels or 400 channels, NO we are not.  We get reruns of programs 50 years old and the movie channels keep repeating the same old movies with maybe one or two thrown in. YET our local channel is no longer available. Let me pick and chose what I want to watch.

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@MsPacman wrote:

What liars you are it is now November and still NO NBC.  What settlement was made? So what excuses are you going to give us now? Every time I have called to find out what is going on I'm told something different or " I understand" what kind of an explanation is that?  STOP LIEING to us.  You keep taking things away and charging more.  Here's what you can take away the how many hundred music channels and the Hispanic channels that I DO NOT watch.  It all looks good when you send your people around to sign people up  "Oh look your getting 300 channels or 400 channels, NO we are not.  We get reruns of programs 50 years old and the movie channels keep repeating the same old movies with maybe one or two thrown in. YET our local channel is no longer available. Let me pick and chose what I want to watch.

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They are not lying. An agreement was reached with Nexstar. They don't own every NBC channel in the country. Those are all owned by different local affiliates. Nexstar is simply just one such affiliate. Recently the Sinclair Broadcasting Group was in negotiations. Some stations are owned by the network directly (such as CBS itself came into negotiate around the time of Nexstar owned CBS affiliate stations). So most likely your local is owned by a different affiliate. Check https://tvpromise.att.com/ to see exactly who they are in negotiations with that affects your local.

Simply put, local affiliate owner requests higher rates to renew their carriage agreement. While they negotiation, the owner of the channel pulls the feed (as is their right) to leaverage us customers against the TV provider. It is because of these rates increasing over the years is why we see the base rates adjusted annually. DirecTV's costs goes up, then our bills go up. If DirecTV were to just cave to the channel's demands, then our bill would go up even more.

Everybody would love to pick and choose their channels. But that is not how the industry is setup. Channel owners package their channels to the TV providers. Consider how many channels are owned by Disney or Viacom. So they do not allow an al-a-carte option, only allowing TV providers to use a packaging model.

Certainly not DirecTV's fault about reruns or multiple showings of a movie. That is completely up to the channels. DirecTV gets an agreement to carry the channels, but does not have say over their programming lineup. If you don't like what is on the channels, then complain to the channel itself.

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@MsPacman wrote:
I have tried to access tvpromise and it does not work.  I put in my area code and state and it will not access the information.

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You do not put in area code or state. All you need is your zip code.

In case you are somehow going to the wrong page, or it is loading wrong for you, what is your zip code?

48601 is Saginaw, Michigan.  

The NBC station in Saginaw is WEYI. 

WEYI is owned and operated by Howard Stirk Holdings.

As of Thursday, September 5th, we have no update on the negotiations between Howard Stirk Holdings and AT&T/DirecTV. (from the WEYI website)

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@MsPacman wrote:
I mis-spoke it was my zip code not area code. My zip code is 48601

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The search button for negotiations on the page appears to be broken. Probably an aftereffect from the recent website updates over the last week I have noticed.

WEYI-TV, virtual channel 25 (UHF digital channel 18), branded on-air as NBC 25, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Saginaw, Michigan, United States and serving the Flint/Tri-Cities television market. Owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, it is operated under a shared services agreement (SSA) by the Sinclair Broadcast Group

So your NBC is owned by Howard Stirk Holdings, a partner of Sinclair Broadcast Group. That is still a current negotiation unfortunately. But though a similar situation, it has nothing to do with Nexstar as those are different companies. And it seems thought the two affiliate owners (Stirk and Sinclair) are partners, they have separate agreements with DirecTV. So a resolution with one does not necessarily mean they are finished negotiating with the other.

In the meantime, I would suggest using a regular local antenna to get the free broadcasts in range. May even get additional sub-channels DirecTV doesn't carry. Just a backup option as DirecTV cannot force your NBC affiliate owner to return the feed.

And what happens when the base charge for each channel is $10 each? The $109 you might pay now for 370+ channels will become 10 channels and you'll be complaining about how much better it was in the old days when you got hundreds of channels for the same price.

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Tegna hasn't pulled any signals yet. They *may* and *if* AT&T doesn't cowtow to their demands.

Dish (and Sling) are in many disputes right now. Your regional sports channel may not be on any streaming service, save the two owned by AT&T.