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NBC, WTHR, CBS - September Contract Negotiation
Why was NBC dropped from the channel lineup? This is a major network that I watch frequently. I am not happy about this change and don't remember receiving any notification of this change.
wolvie9741
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7 years ago
This is one of those issues I don't blame on Uverse. And I hope that a lot of Uverse customers have decided what I've decided, I will no longer watch WTHR. Any NBC content I feel I NEED to watch, which won't be much, will be on their website. Since Uverse/DIRECTV is about 26% of the Indy market, and close to the same in Columbus, where this is also happening (Dispatch Broadcast Group owns both), I want to see if losing add revenue due to the loss of a quarter of the markets viewership, especially with local news, winds up being a bigger loss than whatever Uverse/Directv refuses to pay.
It's a cord cutting world, WTHR, don't tick (not the word I originally wanted to use) off your viewers!
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That Don Guy
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7 years ago
You are not the 100th, much less the first, person to ask this, and the answer is the same as it has always been.
If stations are made available a la carte, the individual price per station would go up significantly, because the stations would charge more per subscriber to make up for the fact that there would be far fewer subscribers. There was a time when ESPN was only available "a la carte," for $10 a month - and (a) that was 30 years ago, so imagine what the monthly charge would be now (it has to pay for the NFL and the College Football championship games somehow), and (b) did not include the extra cost for ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, and so on, which ESPN would probably demand under penalty of Disney keeping the ABC station off of systems where Disney owned the station (including New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) - one of Disney's predecessors at ABC did just that once.
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shannon02
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7 years ago
The FCC will not allow any providers to give you any local channels not in your DMA which is why the locals have so much power over the providers.
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Saderock
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7 years ago
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dhascall
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7 years ago
Been off for a couple of weeks now. Don't know of many local channels that have had this kind of impasse. Both sides need to iron this out, soon.
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Saderock
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7 years ago
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CMEllis1
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7 years ago
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BARB09
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7 years ago
I am outraged not to be able to watch the local channel !!!! What is the problem ???
need a refund and credit for every day .
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Timbow
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7 years ago
I am ready to drop U-verse!
Colts play in 2 days
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backupemail317
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7 years ago
Been way too long now and losing WTHR is causing quite a bit of issues in our household. I am tire of it. I need to know a date when this will be resolved or will go elsewhere for service.
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