DirecTV is cheating subscribers and Nexstar is cheating their advertisers

The FCC will not allow direcrv to get the national feed or "import" it from another affiliate. Your local affiliate has an exclusive to this programming

You have options. Either use an over-the-air antenna or subscriber to another service that offers your local broadcaster. You are more than welcome to rant your displeasure, but nothing will be accomplished from an open community forum.

If only the FCC would allow providers like DirecTV to do this. Congress considered this a few years back but did nothing. 

TV providers are not required to provide local channels, DTV now allows you to drop them.  When DTV first started they didn't have local channels, their receivers where made to use an OTA antenna and switched between them.

What contract? DTV provides channels by satellite and per the TOS you agreed to when ordering the service, channels and programing are subject to change at anytime.

Of course, it doesn't state that the provider must lower their price during a dispute. Nor does it dictate what the charge to customers should be. Usually, upon request, DirecTV will provide a billing credit. 

A slick lawyer should come up with a class action lawsuit for a DirecTV billing credit for millions of Nexstar owned Fox local affiliate viewers for the three years they have been billed for programming they are not receiving.  The damages should amount to tens of millions of dollars.  

Yeah, that's not going to happen. 

Per the TOS DTV customers are limited to binding arbitration.

DirecTV providers locals in general. They are NOT required to provide you any specific local channel at all times. This is the same as other TV providers. Nobody owes you the Nexstar channels.

So when Nexstar increases the cost beyond what the TV provider (not just DirecTV) thinks is reasonable, they are not obligated to just roll over accept the cost.

DirecTV is not allowed to provide you a different Fox affiliate. Those local affiliates lobbied congress so that they may only be provided to who is in their Designated Market Area (DMA). Even if another Fox affiliate is in your DMA (unlikely), there still is no requirement they get a carriage agreement.

When DirecTV started, locals weren't available. Years later they provided them as an optional add-on, and then eventually included them in all packages by default. Now because of carriage agreements with locals, particularly Nexstar being one of (if not THE) worst, they have reinstated having locals be optional. Still not a pick and choose of course, it is whatever locals they have permission for where you live or no locals at all.

Bill only goes down if you have NO locals at all. They are not itemized per area or per local, it is flat rated to all. As long as you get one local channel then you get exactly what you are subscribed to. It is up to you to decide if that is a good value, and if not go where you find better value.

Sorry but you cannot force a TV provider to pay for all locals under the sun and give them to you. Not how it works.

https://www.directv.com/legal/directv-residential-terms-of-service/#otnotice-section-02764f76-0273-4582-8cbe-d4d0542ce909

c. Programming Changes. We have the right to change, add, or remove Our programming packages, their Content, selections, prices, and any Service We offer (including the technology used to deliver them).

The ToS gets refreshed every so often, but boils down to the same clause. Channels/content may change at any time. Just a reality of the TV industry. They do not owe you any local in particular. If you absolutely cannot live with out it than either plug in a regular antenna and get the free broadcast or go with an option that has it. Just remember any other provider can go through the same thing and local affiliates have been pulling their channels more often in recent years.

So there is no cheating. Everyone is working within the rules. Problem is you think the rules work differently and that you are owed something you are not. Perhaps you should complain to Nexstar for their unreasonable demands? Others don't want to pay more for you to get your specific show/sports fix on.

You're making the mods angry, OP.  How dare you say anything negative about DirecTV.  Your thread will be closed shortly.  As an FYI, there ARE lawyers currently working on a lawsuit over this and you should see something shortly.  

We shouldn't have to 'inquire' about a bill credit for something we're paying for but not receiving.  

Thank you, thebigeasy88.

@thebigeasy88 

Keep us posted. 

Satellite carriers must carry local broadcast stations' signals upon request 

Satellite carriers must maintain a "good signal quality" standard 

Satellite carriers must have a reasonable basis for rejecting a broadcast station's request for carriage