This is why you face a channel blackout. At the dawn of this year, somewhere around February, a lot of complaints were heard in regards to local channels not showing up on DirecTV. We looked into it, and this is what happened.
Because the owner group had exclusive control over the local stations and the residential areas that would be eligible to receive NBC on DirecTV or other channels through the satellite carrier. Unless a carriage agreement is signed between the two parties, such disputes linger on and on.
Who suffers in between? The consumers who just want to watch local TV through DirecTV and have to wait on channel restoration, while paying for their package in full. A local channel may disappear from your DirecTV lineup because the channel owner is asking for an unreasonable amount of money from the satellite carrier to renew the carriage contract.
When such a blackout happens, DirecTV recommends you to not panic and do the following:. Channel blackouts happen because of carriage conflicts between channel owners and TV carriers. Andy has a keen interest in technology, digital marketing, and sports. Channel 8 is urging customers to call to demand the station back. You are then connected to DirecTV customer service.
Meanwhile, local radio personality, pasta sauce purveyor and DirecTV customer Pauly Guglielmo, aka Pauly Googs, posted a video to his public Facebook page saying that he got a free antenna from DirecTV by calling and specifically asking for a "local channel connector. Channel 13 went dark in late May, and Channel 8 did the same at p.
Blackouts of specific local channels are not uncommon amid contract negotiations. Louis and 20 other markets during a contract standoff between Charter and the Tribune Media broadcast group. More: DirecTV customers lose another local channel. Facebook Twitter Email. You've lost some local channels on DirecTV. Now what are your options?
0コメント