I can understand the no guide thing being a pain in the butt. I would just do an online chat and see if they can offer you anything. I just did a chat this morning to see if I could get a deal on HBO so I can watch Hard Knocks this month.
Raycom & Dish still quareling? -Dispute Settled. channels back 8/9
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I'd say the biggest cost to provide locals is the guide. Look how much Tivo charges monthly for their service which includes guide data.
That may be the only reference to a fee for locals. Didn't they just raise everyone's rates across the board and then start claiming "locals are free now".
First of all we do not know what the real problem is. It maybe that raycom told dish to stop auto hop on their stations or pay a higher fee to make up for the perceive loss of revenue.
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This is Tivo's way to make a lot of money and to subsidize lower cost DVRs. I have a MythTV DVR and guide data from Schedules Direct, costs just $25/year.
Hear hear Hall. A LOT of us besides shortspark would be OK with the outage if only Dish decoupled their sat transmission guide from their OTA guide. Argh! What imbecile thought that up?
I NEED CONFIRMATION: WXTX is an American Spirit Media station. Have all the Spirit Media stations been pulled along with the Raycom channels? Looks like they all have marketing agreements with Raycom - ie, Spirit Media looks like a shell company so Raycom can get around ownership caps:
KYOU Fox, Ottumwa, Iowa
WDBD Fox , Jackson, Mississippi
WSFX-TV Fox, Wilmington, North Carolina
WUPW Fox, Toledo, Ohio
WUPV CW, Richmond, Virginia
Granted, My Network probably provides 24/7 (or pretty close to it). I'm guessing CBS provides a little over 12 hours/day to the locals. Also, if you think about it, the network is just distributing the programs. They pay the producers (or whoever actually "makes" the show) and just distribute it.
Oh, and isn't My Network simply rerunning old shows? Those aren't original either.
They would ask a question.
Have you been able to receive "NBC" in the last 30 days with an OTA antenna?
then they would say ...
Sir you should answer no to this question.
So of course I answered
"No"
Congratulations you now receive NBC on dish channel 241! (this part didn't happen but yeah it was that easy to get distants back in the day.)
I can definitely confirm that wxtx has been pulled.
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Ouch, TWC lost Showtime and CBS stations. CBS has also blocked their internet subs from watching CBS shows on the CBS website. Times are fun...
That really puts the consumer first and shows CBS's true colors, just because one has Time Warner internet doesn't mean they also have Time Warner TV
Can't watch CBS on dish because of the Raycom dispute, and can't watch it online because I use Time Warner. My wife keeps telling me to stop watching Big Brother, she wins!
