At 11 p.m. on Monday night, about 3 million Dish Network subscribers lost access to their local CBS television station. That`s when DISH`s transportation contract with CBS expired. The termination of the contract allowed DISH to transfer CBS stations without authorization. CBS is blocking consumers because they want to raise prices to transport local CBS channels. CBS wants to increase promotion rates, although viewer numbers are declining. Dish recently signed a contract with NFL Media to revive NFL Network and NFL RedZone shortly before the start of the 2020/21 season, the latest in the company`s traditionally harsh attitude in such negotiations; He still doesn`t have an agreement with Sinclairr`s RSNs and hasn`t worn HBO since 2018. Nexstar responded with its own press release the next day, saying Dish was “ready to take its subscribers hostage instead of reaching an agreement with Nexstar and other channels.” One of the most frustrating problems that comes with subscription to live TV services is the fact that any channel you pay could be taken due to contractual disputes and expiry. For example, YouTube subscribers emailed YouTube subscribers on Monday night to inform them that the tennis channel was about to be removed from hours, as well as all content recorded on the service`s DVR cloud. There was no discussion of negotiations or a solution for customers who might be disappointed by this development.
The canal is gone. Starting at 19.m Wednesday, Hoosier Dish Network subscribers will no longer have access to local channels after the network has been unable to resolve a contractual dispute with Nexstar Media Group. On the other hand, Nexstar has regularly concluded public broadcasting and transport agreements with its cable, satellite and telecommunications partners and successfully concluded agreements with nearly 200 distributors in October in October. In addition, since the acquisition of Tribune Media in September 2019, Nexstar has successfully entered into agreements with distributors covering more than 50% of the company`s national presence. It was also not possible to reach a new agreement on Tuesday, resulting in the loss of more than 60 channels on DirecTV, AT-T-verse and the TELEVISION broadcasting service AT-T. The contract to which Dish refers in its press release expires on December 2, and although Dish is penaltying the media group as a villain, Nexstar shared with USA Today the following comment on the blackout: KTLA, a Los Angeles CW subsidiary, said on the website, Keepmystation.com/ktla that if the contract is not renewed “with a new contract, DISH KTLA could withdraw from your schedule.” Dish also has a website with more information about the dispute at Dishpromise.com. As with previous contractual disputes, companies blame each other. In a Thanksgiving statement, Dish said Nexstar was threatening the “biggest local blackout in television history,” which could “darken” customers` access to “164 local channels in 120 markets in 42 states and the District of Columbia.” “Since July, Nexstar has been negotiating relentlessly and in good faith its attempt to secure a multi-year contract acceptable to both parties with Dish and offers Dish the same fair market terms it offers to other major distributors with which it has entered into successful negotiations in 2019 and 2020,” nexstar said in a press release released today. “Despite the fact that nearly $11 billion in revenue was generated in the first nine months of this year and that a multi-billion dollar acquisition of a mobile phone company was completed, Dish has proposed rates that go backwards and risk not only removing Nexstar`s local channels, but also removing Nexstar`s cable network, WGN America, from its system.” For its part, Nexstar issued a press release in which dish refused to conclude a new distribution agreement.