Rec'vd letter today about cancelling DNS Channels on 1st June 2020?

@mdram4x4 you are right... except we don't give as much money to them as the NAB. If there ever was a quid-pro-quo it is the arrangement between broadcasters and Congress (both Houses, and Presid campaigns). The NAB can do whatever they want as long as they give Elections special "air-time" and give us a pile of dough, in turn we buy multmillions $$$$ of airtime for our campaign commercials...

wish I could get a sweet heart deal...

Still don't understand how this hurts anyone? It's not like people are getting this as a free service. I still think if your willing to pay for it, and its available you should be able to purchase.

the problem is stations buy the airwaves in a region and get exclusive rights from networks for that region.

allowing dns cuts into the people that watch them, lowering thier ad revenue

its the same a franchise. you buy the rights to a mcdonalds, and mcdonalds wont build another one close to you

HI thanks again. You are partly correct. Except in areas where you are in a fringe area or a multi-DMA (designated market area). In my case every channel I have is a O&O (owned and operated by the network itself, NYC metro and the LA stations. Plus I was originally "grandfathered" when Direct switched from Prime 24, to "in-market" stations. Yes I've been a customer that long.

those station still have exculsive rights to the dma.

its how tv works. it does not matter if they are o&o, independnet or part of a big corp.

thats the leverage stations use during negotiations. they know they cant be replaced.

who do you work for NBC?

That isn't the point. I have an agreement dating many years and they just cancelled it!

enough, thanks

so you have an rv account?

actual rv accounts should be different, unless the rules have changed