No CW/My Network TV in Austin on DirecTV Stream

No CW on Stream

@doo4usc44 I know. I want to know why. It’s available on Stream in the San Antonio market as well as various other markets as well as available on UVerse TV in the Austin market (I’m switching from UVerseTV to Stream). Why do we pay the same price for stream that satellite users pay but not get the same channels. I don’t want a big ugly dish on my house. We shouldn’t be charged the same price for packages as satellite users and get less. 

The ACE’s have explained it, basically 2 different companies..

Stream and Satellite are 2 different companies?

Yep

Well that makes it even stranger that we can order both of them from the DirecTV website as I’m sure most people think it’s the same company. That and they were able to negotiate to get CW on stream in San Antonio. You’d figure they would be able to do it for Austin also as those cities are an hour apart from each other. And we still pay the same price as satellite users. Do we get anything on/with Stream that Satellite users don’t get?

@Juniper And yet when you go to sign up for a package on the DirecTV website, you chose internet or satellite and then chose the package which is the exact same price for either. The website leads you to believe you are getting the same thing either way. Why do we pay the same price for Stream and get less than if I put the ugly dish on my house?  Does Stream get something Satellite does not? At a bare minimum they need to make it more clear that satellite and stream are separate companies and packages are not the same between the 2 even though that’s EXACTLY how they advertise it when on their website. 

All of that being said, is there a way for us to request a channel be added?  If they can work out a carrier agreement to carry CW on Stream and Satellite in San Antonio (1 hour south of Austin) I’m sure someone has the ability to work out a carrier agreement here. 

@Juniper Agree that the actual dish is a small uniformed piece of tech but why have it if I can get (basically) the same thing using the internet and not have to have a dish.  We have had satellite TV before and our experiences have been horrible.  It rains, no signal, it freezes, no signal, its gets too hot in Texas, no signal.  It was a frustrating experience both times we have had it and I could not wait to get rid of it.  That is what I was so interested in the streaming side of DirecTV.  Now from a realistic standpoint, it makes no difference.  I only watch one show on the CW thanks to Nexstar cancelling all of the others I used to watch and who knows when that will come back on.

@Juniper The looks are the least of my satellite concerns.  Generally speaking they are out of site, out of mind.  My bigger issues with satellite are my previous experiences with DirecTV satellite which were not positive.

Forgot about that Mission/White Knight loophole which probably explains why we did not lose the CW on U-Verse in Austin during the Nexstar dispute (we lost our local NBC channel (KXAN) and another local channel (KBVO) but did not lose CW.

Not speaking for the comparison of Satellite vs. Stream in my post here, but +1 for getting MyNetworkTV/The CW added to Stream. I am in the same situation here in Hartford/New Haven, CT market. Satellite has those 2 local stations, but not available with Streaming app.

@williamfgray   We're neighbors, so to speak.  I'm also in the H/NH DMA.  Wondering the same thing.  As a follow up to the new agreement recently reached between Nexstar and DtV Stream, I did see DtV Stream recently started adding Nexstar-owned CW stations in some of the larger markets (e.g. WPIX in New York, KTLA in Los Angeles).  Wondering if that will expand to other Nexstar-owned CW and MyNetwork stations  Nexstar, of course owns the ABC and MyNetwork stations in H/NH.  Would definitely like to see WCTX added (the MyNetwork affiliate) added to DtV stream.  They carry a lot of news programming produced by the sister ABC station (WTNH).

I should also note that DtV Stream recently increased their rates, undoubtedly due to the increase Nexstar imposed on DtV.  I get it and it is what it is.  However, at the very least, we should be given something in exchange for this increase.  Adding the CW/MNT affiliates where applicable would certainly help.