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.
November 2025
Fubo customers lost over 35 channels when NBCU blacked them out because Fubo wouldn’t agree to NBCU’s, “pricing and packaging that are egregiously above those offered” to other providers. This dispute is still active.
November 2025
Zolo Broadcasting removed two stations from DIRECTV viewers, “to force them to pay more in the coming years, even though the stations aren’t as popular as before”. The stations have been dark for over three months at this point.
October 2025
TU’s 11 networks were pulled from YouTube customers for two months due to, “unjustified fee hikes” based on their ratings.
October 2025
Disney yanked their 19+ networks after demanding “costly economic terms that would raise prices on YouTube TV customers.” The networks were dark for 15 days.
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.
October 2025
Monumental proposed very high rates for its ratings, forcing Hulu + Live TV to drop the network to keep their customers’ rates from increasing. This happened at the same time YouTube TV dropped them, too.
October 2025
Monumental proposed very high rates for its ratings, forcing Hulu + Live TV to drop the network to keep their customers’ rates from increasing. This happened at the same time Hulu + Live TV dropped them, too.