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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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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.)

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...

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...

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!!!

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Spellcheck is your best friend Dept.: Locast is spelled without a capital C.

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.

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...

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...

Around here in Western WA it's a good thing Cox and dish made nice. The Jets@Seahawks game at "The Lighthouse" (the former "Clink") is a CBS game this week. Tomorrow, my morning routine returns to normal as LMAD and Price are back. Yay.

Also, don't fall for this "call dish and complain" or "switch providers" garbage. Install a suitable antenna instead if you can. That will "pay dividends" later.

In my part of the earth those greedmongers at Apollo own KIRO-TV, the local CBS outlet which for now is replaced by The Brian Neylon Show. KIRO, for years, made a big deal about the availability of translator channels for the station. KCPQ/13 (now FOX-owned) also does to a lesser extent...

Well, Seattle got rid of Perry Sook and Nexstar when FOX bought the former Tribune duopoly (KCPQ/13 & KZJO/22). We'll be paying the price if and when FOX gets dollar signs in their eyes. As it is, we;re without KIRO/7 (CBS) no thanks to the greedy gusses at Apollo. Come on Congress. Let's fix...

So do I. My feeling is that KIRO and the other sidelined CBS affils likely will return by Sunday morning. Reasons: 1. N. 2. F. 3. L. and 4. Apollo would be absolutely boneheaded to allow a blackout of the big sport of fall. Just be glad this hell should not affect the biggest sports event/party...