Local TV stations charge us a monthly fee per customer to carry their stations. These stations are allowed to black out their channel if we don’t agree to pay them increasingly higher fees.
They do this to get you to consider switching to another provider. They are hoping that this will pressure us to give in to their demands for big fee increases, which raises your bill.
There have been a record number of stations who have temporarily pulled their programming from viewers. We work with more than 1,000 stations every year and are willing to pay a fair price. However, these station fees (paid by you as part of your monthly bill) are at an all-time high, so we are negotiating hard to ensure we keep your bill as low as possible.
December 2024
TelevisaUnivision pulled its channels from Fubo customers when they wouldn’t agree to a 25% price hike and bundling practices that forces subscribers to pay for all channels.
July 2024
Eleven of Bally’s RSNs were dropped because Bally was asking for a rate increase that was too high.
May 2024
Fubo dropped all Warner Bros. Discovery networks from its lineup, alleging that WBD was seeking, “above-market rates” and refused to license Turner Sports networks separately.
November 2023
TEGNA pulled 66 stations when DIRECTV wouldn’t cave in to their demands for double-digit annual rate increases that would have made it the most expensive broadcaster nationwide, despite declining viewership.
January 2025
Optimum customers lost Nexstar stations for over a week because they were demanding, “the highest rates of any broadcasting group” and charging high rates for NewsNation – even though, “90% of customers never tune in.”
January 2025
MSG Network pulled their network for over two months because they were trying to get, “exorbitant programming fees” in addition to making all Optimum customers pay for their network – instead of only those who want it.
September 2024
27 Disney channels, including ABC and ESPN , were blacked out from millions of DIRECTV customers for 2 weeks because they wouldn’t agree to a new contract that would make their customers pay for channels they may not watch.
January 2025
MSG Network pulled their network for over two months because they were trying to get, “exorbitant programming fees” in addition to making all Optimum customers pay for their network – instead of only those who want it.