Looks Like Lin is back!

I can only hope the Twitter people are forwarding comments up the chain with something like "I don't understand what these people are talking about but they keep asking for 'OTA guide data' (what is that ?) to be turned back on for the LIN stations" !! :D
 
I can only hope the Twitter people are forwarding comments up the chain with something like "I don't understand what these people are talking about but they keep asking for 'OTA guide data' (what is that ?) to be turned back on for the LIN stations" !! :D
I wouldn't bet the farm on it, unfortunately :(
 
On WISH-TV's facebook page (CBS Affiliate out of Indianapolis) roughly 75 to 80% of all the comments are either in Dish's favor or at least calling Lin Media out.
 
Choose the fee option and the FCC auctions off your spectrum to the highest bidder. OR you can STFU and do what you did 30 years ago... supply the channel for free and thank the providers for making your picture look better than they can get from your transmitters (and which extend your ad reach).

you're partially right. I agree that the locals should allow free retransmission of their signals (IMHO, I feel the DISH locals fee should be for the expenses of off-air reception of the locals in a LIL receive facility and for transport to the uplink and for transmission over the sats rather than letting it be to help pay the stations for carriage). I also agree that the locals should be kissing the providers' rears for increasing station viewership.

I disagree that the providers provide a better picture than the local station can offer from their transmitter. By far, the locals here look better from the transmitter than they do on DISH (and even DIRECTV when I had it). DISH and DIRECTV and I assume TW and Comcast, etc. all cr**pify the signal by reworking it - usually bandwidth-wise and sometimes resolution wise, too.
 
1st - Dish cleverly played the FCC and avoided providing our local PBS station in HD because of some BS about 1st amendment rights (apparently Dish's, not mine) and how Dish is defending it's right to tell me what I want to watch. Well that wasn't the exact words in the Dish PR statement, but the result was the same - no PBS in HD in our local DMA :(

2nd - Dish decided to drop our HD Absolute package and automatically charge us more than twice as much for significantly less HD channels. And forced me to haggle with a retention specialist to be able to switch to Dish America and keep the $10 discount for 12 months. :(

3rd - Dish decided that it was in my best interest to squabble with LIN over the carriage fees for KXAN. Reducing my locals even further :(

In the mean time DirecTV has been providing our local PBS in HD for some time now, somehow manages to keep KXAN live and despite Charlie's protestations to the contrary, has vary comparably priced programing packages to the one Dish involuntarily switched me to.

The ONLY thing keeping me with Dish now is that I'm no longer under contract and fully expect to be able to drop Dish (and not have to switch to DirecTV) within the next 12 months due to increased online options.

And I can't wait to tear this stinking dish off my roof!

Talon Dancer
 
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I just got this non-answer from president at dishnetwork.com on the OTA issue:
Dear Valued DISH Network Customer,

DISH Network and LIN Media are in contract negotiations regarding your local stations. LIN has demanded an outrageous rate increase of over 175% for the continued carriage of your channels. DISH has offered multiple extensions to continue to keep your channels on air, but LIN has refused to negotiate and even come to the phone.

We apologize that LIN is putting you in the middle of our negotiations by pulling down the signal and blocking your local channels.

The increase LIN is demanding is so immense, that DISH Network and its customers couldn’t possibly absorb it. It is like demanding an overnight increase to almost $9 a gallon for gas, which is unacceptable and irresponsible.

In these challenging economic times, it is important that we rally together to show LIN how their actions negatively affect DISH Network and its customers.

For more information, please visit HYPERLINK "http://www.fairsatellite.com/" \t "_blank" www.fairsatellite.com
We know this programming is important to you, and we promise we’ll attempt to negotiate until a fair and equitable agreement can be reached. While we work to restore your channel, catch many great shows elsewhere on hulu.com, dishonline.com, iTunes, FOX.com, CWtv.com, ABC.com, CBS.com and NBC.com.

For more information, please visit www.fairsatellite.com

Thank you for being a DISH Network Customer.

Sincerely,
DISH Network




I fired the following back:
This doesn’t answer WHY YOU CANNOT GIVE ME THE EPG INFORMATION FOR THE OTA TUNER.

I AGREE with you on the ReTrans fees, but I want my OTA tuner to WORK for the OTA station.

You always BLOCK the PSIP Program Guide from the OTA stream, therefore it is YOUR responsibility to deliver the OTA EPG information.

WHY WILL YOU NOT DO THIS?

This is the standard boiler plate for the LIN dispute and doesn’t answer my question AT ALL.

 
I believe they can do so because they are not pulling in a neighboring DMA channel, but rather their plan was bring the programing direct from the Network. Sorta of cutting out the middle man (local affiliate channel).

From the Bangor Daily News article re Sinclair:

"Time Warner says it would have replaced signals from Sinclair with feeds from nearby stations in other cities."
 
That's what Time Warner here was planning to do. Here, it's Time Warner Southwest Ohio (I think), which covers Dayton and Cincinnati. When Sinclair was going to pull FOX's Dayton affiliate, TW was going to supply the FOX affiliate from Cincinnati.
 
From the Bangor Daily News article re Sinclair:

"Time Warner says it would have replaced signals from Sinclair with feeds from nearby stations in other cities."

Here in the Rochester NY area, TW said they had a contract with the FOX network to carry all national programming. They could not retransmit local FOX programming.
 
Yeah, they cut my CBS channel off at midnight this past Friday night at Midnight. Hmmm.....Dish should by all reason (of course in my opinion...unbiased of course) deduct a certain portion of my charges for local and give me the option to get distant channels.
 
3rd - Dish decided that it was in my best interest to squabble with LIN over the carriage fees for KXAN. Reducing my locals even further :(

This isn't DISH's fault, it's LIN's fault. LIN did the same thing with KXAN with Time Warner. Time Warner's response was awesome: They pulled the channel and replaced it with Starz, giving customers a free premium channel. KXAN remained off Time Warner for a month and KXAN only came back to the bargaining table the night before the start of November sweeps because they didn't want to lose advertising dollars. I hope Charlie plays hardball with them just like Time Warner did.
 
This isn't DISH's fault, it's LIN's fault. LIN did the same thing with KXAN with Time Warner. Time Warner's response was awesome: They pulled the channel and replaced it with Starz, giving customers a free premium channel. KXAN remained off Time Warner for a month and KXAN only came back to the bargaining table the night before the start of November sweeps because they didn't want to lose advertising dollars. I hope Charlie plays hardball with them just like Time Warner did.

Hey...when did Time Warner give out free Starz??? They won't give us the NFL Network or HD Net, but were giving out free Premium Channels, when we don't even get the free previews of Starz? The certainly didn't do that in New York.
 

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