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    Regional Sports Update

    Well, when the John Madden (et al) blessed day comes that CBS doesn't have to send out the now-obligatory "NFL Runover" tweet and "60 Minutes" starts at 7 PM precisely in the east (6 central time) we'll all be happy campers. And don't forget Sunday Night Football. Most often those games were...
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    Tenga Stations Return to DISH.

    After four months it's about damn time. Tegna should be ashamed. Not sure about dish, but finally this hell is OVAH! Now we can turn our attention to things of far more import like who brings home some gold or the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Thank you to Canada's CTV for backing me up during the hell...
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    Tegna Dispute - how much longer?!

    If one lives far enough north you have (thankfully, I do) two CTV channels (CTV and CTV2) which cover the NFL. All the Sunday night games until yesterday were on CTV2. The CBC will have marathon Olympics coverage in a couple of weeks, running pretty much around the clock save for "The National"...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Personally I didn't like that dish took off Root Sports NW just before the Kraken started playing so I don't get to see the local NHL team until I find another way - save for the occasional appearance on "Hockey Night In Canada" or ESPN or Turner. It'll be a time before someone with a brain...
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    DISH Fights for a Fair Deal, Tegna Prioritizes Greed above Consumers

    If our local Tegna duopoly were still running on dish the lower third on KING might read something like this: "dish REMOVES KING & KONG; THEY DON'T WANT TO PAY". Turned away from Rachel Maddow (and her new "band-aid") to check on our local Tegna duopoly. Sure enough, weve got The Brian Ney!on...
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    DISH Fights for a Fair Deal, Tegna Prioritizes Greed above Consumers

    Amen. Especially since here in Western WA we'll lose the famous KING KONG duopoly (KING/5 is the local NBC outlet, KONG/16 is independent with backup to NBC - and what's left of the Kraken preseason, not much of that left, though) that another channel we lost recently - Root Sport - has primary...
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    RSN's Continue to Fall - Dish drops AT&T Sportsnets

    Bad timing with the race to the playoffs for the Mariners of late AND the launch of the Kraken up here in the Northwest (though we'll get to see some of both teams' games on ESPN as those are picked up.)
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    Locast update

    Just checked out of curiosity. On dish this message now appears on my Hopper when I "click" on the Locast app logo: "Locast has suspended operations, and due to this, the Locast app will no longer be available on dish." Let's see if Locast can work things out so they can resume operations.
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    Locast News (Additions, changes, etc)

    That, and cease referring to the $5 fee as a "donation." Can you imagine how annoying it is to see one of those "donate" spots come up while the station is showing something important - like the President speaking on the now-ended conflict or emergency news on that fast-approaching tropical...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Bottom Line (without all the excessive overquoting - you can backtrack): dish will not be taking the Sink-clair (again, my spelling) channels off because it appears both sides are making nice. And Sink-clair has nothing to gain from a retrans blackout except bad press, which is never a good...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Neither Sink-clair (my spelling), nor dish, requires our permission OR an agreement to remove the retrans propaganda from their websites. A bit of common sense, Yes, but permission, No. It would be a definite surprise - and not a welcome one - to see dish being forced to remove over 100...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Also gone from komonews.com (out local Sink-Clair outlet): the house propaganda urging you to bug dish about all this. This impasse definitely appears to be OVAH!!!
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Anyway, I've got dish. I've got a Hopper. I've got backup from the Canadian channels. The retrans hell won't go away if I were to switch, anyway.
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Not sure if things are settled, but the note that dish stuck onto the EPG when you tuned to KOMO/4 in Seattle is not there anymore! Looks like Whammy and I will keep our time together tomorrow. I'd rather see Elizabeth and Whammy than the dish Barker tape given the choice, anyway.
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    Spam call from Echostar?

    Same here. In fact, the preamble I give them states clearly that I don't answer the phone unless you are on my contact list and if you are you should reach me on my landline - and they'd know that number if I knew them. If you're not, El Blocko sends them off to hell. I also switch the thing...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Different story in Seattle/Western WA. KOMO/4 is still running "the crawl" a couple minutes into every program along with the usual "Call dish and complain" spots (BTW: DON'T unless you call Sinclair and do the same to them). Methinks sometime tonight we'll get the dish Barker Video in place of...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Stil a couple of days left, but if “no news is good news,” the fact that the websites TV Newscheck and nexttv have absolutely nothing on their front pages regarding the Sinclair/dish impasse leads me to believe there are cooler heads prevailing. That said, I’ll believe it when those websites...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    AN OPEN LETTER TO SINK-CLAIR, WHICH I KNOW THEY WILL NEVER SEE: Dear Sink-Clair (again, my spelling): You can run that stupid crawl urging me to complain to dish all you want (and I'm NOT calling them - nobody should unless they call you to complain first) but my Hopper has a zoom function to I...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Spellcheck is your best friend Dept.: Locast is spelled without a capital C.
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    How so? Sink-Clair (again, my spelling) doesn't own PAC12 Networks. And dish won't be going bankrupt over losing the Sink-Clair channels. It'll take far more than that to send dish into liquidation.
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Check out the website of your local Sink-Clair (my spelling) station. Sink-Clair has posted its usual whiny release about dish's failure (or refusal) to make nice. komonews.com in Seattle has the statement linked on the front page. As usual, Sink-Clair urges you to switch providers (in...
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    Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

    Especially in about three weeks when play in the U.S. Open, the year's final Major, starts up. ESPN has the bulk of that tournament, however. Why Sinclair is roping carriage of its sports properties into local retrans fees is beyond me. Fees for retrans should be a totally separate negotiation...
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    Another Retrans dispute - this time COX/Apollo - about to hit AT&T/DIRECTV

    Thankfully, COX, Apollo and AT&T made nice hours before that "Big Game", which means viewers in Seattle and Dayton don't have to take evasive measures. And the others get back what they were missing. That said, if you subscribe to any video provider anyblank having an antenna should be your...
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    Another Retrans dispute - this time COX/Apollo - about to hit AT&T/DIRECTV

    Thought I'd pass on what KIRO/7 is saying on their website with added comment by me: “The best thing viewers can do is to Call AT&T/DIRECTV at 1-800-xxx-xxxx or locally at 1-855-xxx-xxxx. (NOTE: Phone numbers redacted by me. You should only call if there is a problem with your service, not about...
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    Another Retrans dispute - this time COX/Apollo - about to hit AT&T/DIRECTV

    Yeah. Used that a bit during the recent dish kerfuffle until I got my antenna system fixed up. Needed an amp that burned out. Found one at Fry's. Locast, however, has a nasty habit of breaking into programming every ten minutes - and they don't wait for natural program breaks, and every time...
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