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patbz · ‎03-10-2010

I am a Dish subscriber and I would appreciate it if the Dish subscriber s who ARE receiving CBS would post as to where they are located. Dish is saying that the outage is system wide; and an antenna doesn't help if you live in the mountains. I love the Fall lineup on CBS so I hope it's back by then.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

In my area and many others, from what I've heard, the current flap is between CBS and Direct TV. This has been going on for weeks. Direct TV is handing out interior antennas.

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geezerette · ‎03-16-2010

I have had Dish for years and lately have had no channel outages. I just watched CBS last night. I live in the rural mid-south.

A few weeks ago our local NBC station was dropped by Direct TV, and they were asking people to call Direct to ask for it back. I don’t know if that was resolved or not, but it wasn’t Dish. As far as I know, Dish is not in dispute with anyone right now.

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@patbz wrote:
I am a Dish subscriber and I would appreciate it if the Dish subscriber s who ARE receiving CBS would post as to where they are located. Dish is saying that the outage is system wide; and an antenna doesn't help if you live in the mountains. I love the Fall lineup on CBS so I hope it's back by then.

@patbz

Los Angeles, CA

patbz · ‎03-10-2010

What I heard (hearsay) is that Direct TV's parent company bought CBS (or the other way around) and therefore this is a "squeeze" tactic against Dish. It may be true, because this "negotiation" is longer than they usually last.

geezerette · ‎03-16-2010

@patbz

@chiclet

I was curious about this so I Googled it.

It seems that only about a dozen markets are affected. Those owned by Meredith Corp. They seem to be the only ones having a dispute with Dish.

”The Meredith stations to go dark include CBS affiliate WGCL-TV in Atlanta; Fox affiliate KPTV in Portland, Oregon; Fox affiliate KVVU in Las Vegas; CBS affiliate KPHO in Phoenix; and CBS affiliate KCTV in Kansas City. Meredith had extended its retransmission consent agreement for 24 hours on July 15. But when no deal was reached, the stations went dark to Dish customers at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on July 16.”

So, if you are in a market whose CBS stations are owned by Meredith, you’re likely without those stations until they get their contract worked out.

jackpotwinner · ‎06-10-2015

We have Dish, and I just checked the channel, we still have CBS and we live in

Colorado. But we lost HBO last year, a channel that we pay for, they were giving

us a credit every month, but never did get it back, and with price increases we're

paying the same amount as we were before, and no HBO or cinemax anymore either.

geezerette · ‎03-16-2010

@jackpotwinner wrote:
We have Dish, and I just checked the channel, we still have CBS and we live in
Colorado. But we lost HBO last year, a channel that we pay for, they were giving
us a credit every month, but never did get it back, and with price increases we're
paying the same amount as we were before, and no HBO or cinemax anymore either.

@jackpotwinner

Oh yes, I forgot that Dish and AT&T (who owns HBO) are having a dispute.

Tribesters · ‎03-10-2010

@patbz

I have Dish in Western New York & I have CBS. In this area Directv is the one having the dispute with CBS. Unfortunately for me Dish is disputing with Fox Sports Ohio. I haven’t been able to watch my Cleveland Indians games in weeks... I only got Dish because they had a regional sports package that included FSO. I pay extra for channels I can’t even get now. And I just signed a new 2 year contract BEFORE I knew they were cancelling my channel. Not happy!

viva923 · ‎03-12-2010

we had dish for 2 years, and all the times we lost channels for contact disputes, we dropped dish and never went back. We have been with Verizon since the mid 90’s never looked back.