topic I just noticed our local NBC channel is gone............ in TV and Movies

I just noticed our local NBC channel is gone............

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 04:19:21 GMT

some dispute between Nexstar (I think) Direct TV. I didn't care until it hit me all the Chicago (PD, Fire, and Med) are NBC shows. There are the only NBC shows I watch. Hopefully they will reslove it before the new season.

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joannecha — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:21:00 GMT

We have Direct TV Now and have the same thing going on. Very irritating. They each blame the other. I agree in that I can live without it now ( I flipped over to the local ABC affiliate for my local news) but also hope it resolves before the fall shows come out.

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Meowingkitty — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 12:31:29 GMT

I live in Arizona (if that matters) and I still have NBC with Direct TV.

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Kachina624 — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:20:58 GMT

Here everyone is complaining about Direcy TV dropping the local CBS affliate. I have a cheap interior antenna on which I get all the local station so I'll never be without.

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aggravated — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:09:30 GMT

Here in Northern Virginia the NBC station has been making announcements that even if you are receiving their signal with an antenna you must reconfigure your television set as the signal is changing August 1.

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CelticCrafter — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:43:07 GMT

I do not watch local network tv.

The only way I would know they were gone is if I went to watch Survivor or The Amazing Race and it was blacked out. Those are the only two programs I watch on a local network.

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LyndaGee — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:52:00 GMT

We have Spectrum Cable and this happened to us a few months ago when they were negotiating. Lately, we are missing the YES Network. They keep saying: "Have patience." We are baseball fans, so this channel is missed.

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Q-Anu — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:20:21 GMT

Here we aren’t receiving our local ABC affiliate over the same type of dispute.

My family can't watch Jeopardy! until they sort this out. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have even known.

These disputes are becoming a constant.

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SouthernFried — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:26:25 GMT

I live in southern Alabama and have DirecTV. We no longer have our local NBC or CBS channels. What a pain in the tush. Have to switch between satellite and antenna to catch all my shows. Have to watch these channels live, instead of DVR'ing and watching when I want to. Hope they come to an agreement soon (before college football starts)!

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susielong — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:03:34 GMT

It's all about the money and if you ask me neither one of these companies are in poverty or hurting financially. All they do is increase our rates and keep wanting more!!

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depglass — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 20:51:19 GMT

We have DISH and can no longer get HBO. I was told by a friend that the company who owns Direct pulled it as a competitive move. The government should get involed in some of this stuff.

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LogoFan — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:58:12 GMT

@depglass wrote:
We have DISH and can no longer get HBO. I was told by a friend that the company who owns Direct pulled it as a competitive move. The government should get involed in some of this stuff.

@depglass

I live in Chicago and use Dish Network. AT&T took over HBO/Cinemax end of October 2018. I lost HBO back then and looks like will never return to Dish.

Here in our city ATT owns Direct TV and they still have HBO. Learned that there was a lawsuit because ATT has a monopoly now on these channels which is illegal. They made impossible requirements for Dish satellite to keep HBO. The Dept of Justice became involved in lawsuit becaue of the illegality of the situation. Last I heard DOJ was accused of siding with Dish Network. In any event will not be able to learn anything until if/when lawsuit is settled.

Your subject here caught my eye because my Dish Network sent an email notice also recently offering an antenna to use for local channels like CBS, NBC, etc. free of charge. However, then heard use of this antenna vs. paying Dish for transmitting these networks can result in loss of certain networks including PBS. Public Broadcasting is one of my favorites. Now I am wondering if this offer was made because Dish is aware of what you are experiencing and they may want to avoid that controversy also for themselves and their customers.

I agree with another poster here that all these providers are greedy for more money and do not care about consumers.

I did not even go into another thing happening with ATT where they are no longer offering inside wiring maintenance at $6.95 per month. Will have to pay a $99 service fee for a visit if due to inside wire issues. Lord help us all !! Things keep getting more difficult for us.

Thanks for posting about this issue. Helps to make sense of all the stories heard here.

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deeva — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 23:11:50 GMT

We have Dirctv, still get NBC but lost the CW. I have an over the air antenna so I still get that channel and all of the other local channels.

plus, I can watch most network tv shows on Hulu.

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Meowingkitty — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:37:36 GMT

I just kicked DirectTV to the curb on Sunday. We bought new TV’s and I had been thinking of getting rid of DirectTV for some time now. I simply got sick of the yearly rate hikes (they were going to raise my rates $65 a month, yes I tried to negotiate with them and all they wanted to offer me this year was free HBO for a year) and I was already paying close to $100 for 60 channels that were nothing but infomercials and another 60 or so channels of music channels which I don’t listen to. So $150 a month wasn’t going to happen. So far I’m liking streaming. I signed up for HULU and I have antenna TV so now I get the content I want and I’m saving over $100 a month.

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Mom2Dogs — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:51:58 GMT

@Kachina624 not everyone lives in an area that can pick up channels with an antenna...I have tried but we are not close enough to a large city.

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Icegoddess — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 01:09:04 GMT

I have DirecTV and here the dispute is also with Nexstar but it's the Fox channel. Sure, I could watch it over the air, but that's a pain, and I wouldn't be able to record to watch whenever I wanted to. I'm not interested in cutting the cord because I like being able to channel surf. Plus, you end up paying for all those streaming services. Also, don't want to miss out on College Football.

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Shawnie — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 01:45:29 GMT

@aggravated wrote:
Here in Northern Virginia the NBC station has been making announcements that even if you are receiving their signal with an antenna you must reconfigure your television set as the signal is changing August 1.

I am in Northern VA and i lost NBC a couple of weeks ago. I have an over the air antenna and i have rescanned multiple times and can’t receive Channel 4 for more than a few seconds and then it is gone. I have two tvs using too different antennas and neither can get the signal now. Hope whatever they do is done soon and i can get them again. I miss Lester Holt.

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patbz — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 02:23:11 GMT

I was in Rio Rancho and Son has Direct tv (so no CBS) and I get back to Show Low today (we have DISH) and no CBS!! Guess I'll call DISH tomorrow and ask for a rate discount until they resolve this (it's usually $10 until they solve their negotiations. TG it's not Fall, as some of my "shows" are on CBS.

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maximillian — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 02:26:24 GMT

In PA, local CBS affiliates are no longer broadcast by Direct TV.

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patbz — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 19:46:28 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 : We didn't have access to CBS on Direct over weekend and now we don't get CBS in Show Low On Dish. I called Dish, explained I have seen this done before and as a viewer I am getting less than I paid for. I got a $5 credit over this issue and,once I had a supervisor on the phone, I changed to a "No Sports, No Spanish"pkg and saved $40 a mth. We can't use an antenna, as we are in the mtns, or I would be a cord cutter for sure.