Nexstar Negotiations

Your local Fox channel 8 removed their feed to DTV because DTV will not pay them what they are asking to renew the contract, which is why your bill goes up ever year. Read the TOS about channels and programing are subject to change at anytime.

Nonsense, our bills go up anyway. Mine has doubled since I first had Directv installed.  Just get my programming back please.  I have other options, cheaper options,  but I kept Directv because it was good service. However if I don't get my favorite local station back I will be forced to change providers. 

This is a customer to customer forum, your Fox station will be back when they sign a new contract.  Cost always go up but would you prefer a $10 or a $20 or more increase which is what will happen if DTV just caves in and pay what they are asking.

I want my station back and soon. Like I said Directv doesn't need to raise pricing. They raise their prices just to make more money whenever they want to anyway. I don't go out very often so my TV is my entertainment.  I want to be able to watch what I want when I want. I put up with the interruptions during rainstorms and now this with no refunds. Refunds should be given in this case because this didn't need to happen. 

Demanding your station back soon won’t make it happen. How about you contact your local station and tell them to restore their feed? After all, they are the ones that pulled it. Directv is more than willing to continue carrying the channel while they negotiate. In any event, there won’t be any refunds. Directv might offer a bill credit at some point but no refunds.

@Laws071373 

It is not nonsense. This is a big factor why bills go up each year. The networks raise the costs continuously. All TV providers can do is mitigate the cost increase as best they can, they cannot prevent it.

What many do not realize is that locals going up affects everybody. DirecTV does not itemize local cost per area but makes it a flat rate in the base package cost. So your wanting higher costs just to get your otherwise 'free' (over-the-air) local is wanting all bills to go up, regardless if someone gets the channel or not.

Plug in a antenna to get those free channels. Might even enjoy some sub-channels along with them. Changing providers does not save you as all go through this. And Nexstar is becoming the worst offender on this situation being one of the biggest owners of local affiliate channels in the country.

Nexstar had the choice to keep the feed on while negotiations continue or pull the feed to leverage customers. Either way was their right and you see which way they went.

There is no refund as you are not guaranteed any channel ever.

https://www.directv.com/legal/directv-residential-customer-agreement/

(c) Our Programming Changes. Many factors affect the availability, cost and quality of programming and may influence the decision to raise prices and the amount of any increase. These include, among others, programming and other costs, consumer demand, market and shareholder expectations, and changing business conditions. Accordingly, we reserve the unrestricted right to change, rearrange, add or delete our programming packages, the selections in those packages, our prices, technologies used to deliver the Service, and any other Service we offer, at any time.

Couldn't agree more just another liberal group nonsense. Not letting Americans make their own choices.

Corporations own the channels and lobbied the FCC to set it up this way.

I dont care what they own. If I am in a contract with them for channels I pay for 12 month period. I don't give a (Edited per community guidelines) about their negotiations. That is their buisness problems not mine, if my bill is paid monthly.

Just like if I canceled my contract prior to the deadline they would charge me.  So why is this justifiable for them because they are a "Corporation ". 

Read the TOS it states that channels and programing are subject to change at anytime and agreed to the 2 year cancellation fee when you choose to sign when DTV was installed.

@doublesevens 

So you don't care about the rules? Your service agreement (contract) doesn't promise you any channel.

Nexstar owns the channel. They refuse to provide it to DirecTV unless they cave to even higher costs. Their operating costs go up, then our bills follow suit.

They are following the rules. You just want the rules to be different. Saying "you don't care" doesn't magically make the situation go away. Welcome to real life where you are not the center of the universe.

@doublesevens 

Couldn't agree more just another liberal group nonsense. Not letting Americans make their own choices.

There is nothing political about this. Two companies are negotiating but have a big disagreement on price.

You can make your own choices. Just like DirecTV and Nexstar are making their own choices. You cannot dictate their choices. How much you care or not doesn't affect that you don't own either company so cannot tell them what to do.

All TV providers go through this whether you have Satellite, Cable or even Streaming. Hulu TV and Youtube TV just went through this with Nexstar and they pulled the feed on them too.  It does not matter what TV provider you go through most likely you will have channels that are owned by Nexstar and they will be pulled at some point in time when renegotiations come about.  The only way to avoid this is with an over-the-air antenna.  Just so everyone knows Directv is offering a $10 one-time credit for people that are affected by this outage.

It's the greedy corporations that own local stations (like Nexstar) that pulled your channels. They want more and more and more money to deliver FREE over-the-air stations. It's killing satellite/cable providers as they're forced to pass along those ever-increasing fees.

Learn the truth about these exorbitant retransmission fees here ....

Search YouTube for The Antenna Man's excellent video:  "Lose a TV Station on Cable or Satellite? Here's Why"

All these providers should be listed as scammers we cannot even get internet with direct TV. But our bill keeps skyrocketing out of control. Then when we're late paying the bill it conveniently loses signal with the "wireless" ( oh ok) box. There are over 500 houses in our development but no internet providers. We love our local news too all the other stations are in New York or LA. This whole situation is (Edited per community guidelines). If I had decent internet I definitely would not have direct TV or Dish or Verizon. They are all scammers and tack on more and more charges. 🤬🤬🤬🤬.