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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 donât 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 2023
Lilly Broadcasting blacked out three stations from DISH customers for 40 days because DISH wouldnât agree to their large rate hikes.
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November 2023
TEGNA pulled 66 stations when DIRECTV wouldnât cave in to their demands for double-digit annual rate increases that would have made it the most expensive broadcaster nationwide, despite declining viewership.
July 2023
Nexstar cut the signal to 200 stations in 100 cities after DIRECTV refused to pay more than double the fee. The stations were dark for over 2 months.
September 2023
Disney removed 27 networks from 15 million Spectrum customers for about two weeks because Disney was demanding terms that werenât, âfair to Spectrumâs customers.â
July 2023
Hawaiian Telecom customers lost their local stations when Nexstar pulled the signal because HT wouldnât agree to a 70% rate increase.
September 2023
DISH customers lost 37 Hearst stations for over two months because DISH wouldnât agree to significantly, “higher rates for the same entertainment and news.â
January 2023
Nexstar pulled the signals to over 30 stations when DISH rejected their âunreasonableâ fees, given that their viewership on had âsignificantly declinedâ.
September 2023
Comcast customers in two cities lost their stations for five weeks because Imagicomm was asking for huge fee hikes.
January 2023
Mission removed 26 television stations from DISH, impacting more than 800,000 customers.