What is DirectTV doing to keep NBC Channel 9 KUSA in Denver Colorado

We understand your concern about losing local stations, including Channel 9 NBC, for any period of time. We are working extra hard to get into an agreement with Tegna the owner of this channel as soon as possible. Likewise, we want to continue to work to deliver our customers greater choice and value while shielding them from unwarranted price hikes as we work with TEGNA. More: TVPromise.com DIRECTV appreciates your understanding. Maria, DIRECTV Community Specialist

All TV providers have the same problem, the corporations that own the local channels want more money.  The TV providers try to minimize it so less has to be passed down to their customers. 

DTV only raises the base cost yearly except this year they raised it early so you need to check your bills to see what caused the increase.

@Maggiemay5811 

DirecTV is doing what they do every time, which is negotiating. This is how carriage agreements go. Sometimes the local channel owner will threaten to take the channel away (which is their right) to try and leverage customers like yourself to get DirecTV to cave to higher rates.

If DirecTV caves to those higher rates, just think where that ultimately comes from. That would be your bill. Their costs go up, then your bill eventually follows suit.

You can disconnect DirecTV if you want but that doesn't save you. All providers go through this. Not a single one can promise you this will never happen as they don't own the channels. And local affiialtes are doing this more often in recent years. So you would just switch and then eventually go through it again.

For those that can, use a regular antenna. That way you get locals within range no matter what TV provider you have or what negotiations they are going through. Might even pick up additional sub-channels they don't have, or channels within range that are from another network that the provider is not allowed to provide you.

As for bill going up, read your bill. Was it discounts ending or just the annual price adjustment (which came a couple months early). https://www.directv.com/support/article/000066845 

It seems that DirectTV just got Denver channel 2 and Fox channel 31 back online after a fairly long black out for customers. Now it’s channel 9. We switched from Comcast to DirectTV a few years ago because at the time it was a better value. That’s not so true anymore. The prices keep rising as the service becomes less reliable. Frustrating. 

Right, content providers keep raising their price so all TV providers have to raise their price.

All satellite, cable and streaming TV providers continue to battle greedy corporations that demand more and more money to deliver FREE off-air channels.

Check out this excellent video explaining why corporate network owners keep demanding more and more money from cable, satellite and streaming providers to deliver FREE off-air TV stations ....

"Local TV Station Blackouts to Happen More Ofter - Here's Why"

https://youtu.be/XXkmWUgllcc?si=eCzrWDxQaw7ncTR3

@Lisa_Lakewood756 

That would be local channel negotiations. Happens with all providers, none are immune so they are all as reliable as each other in that sense.

Currently that negotiation is with Tegna. We've been through this before and so far this has been one of the easier ones. The prior one I suspect you refer to was Nexstar which was one of the worst.

Network owners want to raise rates, which is a primary factor in your bill going up with any company. The more TV providers have to pay for those channels the more they have to adjust cost of service to keep up.

This is the reality of the TV industry.

This is the precise reason we switched from Dish network to DirecTV. It is unethical in the extreme to end a local news service. Period. People rely on the news for numerous reasons, chief among them being safety and the watchdog component that protects democracy. If DirecTv were an ethical company, they would put a cap on public news station payments so that those stations would be able to continue to do their jobs effectively. Instead, DirecTv bends the knee to their shareholders, who shouldn’t be in the business of ending information people count on. Shame on DirecTv. 

@HeatherLafayette 

We get why you are upset, no one wants to deal with these carriage issues. However, it's now become inevitable in this world today where inflation as well as greed becomes a major part of the TV industry for companies such as Tegna.

detuch25

Oh please. DirecTV's greed is not inevitable. Why should everyone have to pay for the propaganda Fox News network when local news orgs that inform the public of important issues, including safety, are used as bargaining chips? DirecTv could choose to do the right thing and put a cap on local news payments, and not charge every customer for Fox News.

Also, nice job deleting my critical comment, and many others, from the public forum, too. Your company is unethical. 

@HeatherLafayette 

DirecTV cannot put a cap on local news payments, no TV provider can. First of all that is not what they pay for but the channel itself regardless what is on it. The issue is that network owners require their channels to be packaged. And Fox is one of the bigger owners out there so TV providers cannot al-a-carte, which in turn means it is packaged to us customers.

Also, this is not our company any more than it is yours. This is a forum of other customers. For official support you call. And though the forum is open to the public, if something goes against the forum rules/guidelines then the moderators can edit out inappropriate info or remove posts completely. You can have comments that are critical as long as they are done politely and don't deal with content that is not appropriate for  the forum (i.e. legal or political for example).

How is DTV being greedy by trying to reduce the next increase?

Claiming DirecTV is greed when Tegna is the one demanding to increase costs, and claiming that a TV provider can to choose to put a cap on local news payments, means one is rather detached from the reality of the situation.

@Juniper Do they pay you to insult their customers? 

@HeatherLafayette 

Did you watch the YouTube video that I linked earlier in this post?  It's very clear who the greedy parties are in these crazy contract disputes. Cable and satellite providers are dying because of these every-increasing costs.