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Friday, July 5th, 2019 4:33 AM

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Loss of channels

AT&T has failed to properly prepare for the  anticipated end of contract negotiation with Nexstar - resulting in the loss of ABC station, a MAJOR network. This continues to happen, as in the past, when other channels were removed from the lineup - as your customers continue to pay increased costs in service. We set up another TV(purchased an antennae) that would give us this basic channel for the interim - assuming we will get the channel back at some time in the future!  I think it's time to contact other providers who can provide continuing service that we PAY for and don't get with AT&T.

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What is that sound in the distance???   I believe that's the sound of wheels spinning.

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6 years ago

As announced to dat, CBS owned stations should be restored since an agreement has been finalized. Unfortunately, if you have a station owned by Nexstar then you are still out of luck. Maybe soon!

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6 years ago

CBS is back in LA,CA but if your CBS is owned by Nexstar you will have to wait.

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6 years ago

When will I get my signal back on? 

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6 years ago

Unless the station is owned by Nexstar, it's back..

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6 years ago

I have Directtv Now. CBS is supposed to be back but it is still not coming in. My zip is 78266. 

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6 years ago


@omadden wrote:

Guarantee???I signed up for a specific package that included certain station...Implied contract...you agreed to provide those cahnnels. Take some responsibility for your failures.


Sorry but what you consider to be "implied" contract is different from the actual one in the Terms of Service in print.

 

It would be IMPOSSIBLE for any TV provider to guarantee that any channel will always be there. They don't own the channels, they simply have a carriage agreement. And all those agreements end at different times. At the end of the day, DirecTV/AT&T cannot force the channel to always be on as it is owned by someone else. Thankfully negotiations with CBS directly owned stations has completed. Now they can focus that much more on resolving the one with Nexstar.

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@phytoplankton wrote:
Juniper (ACE - Expert)I am a very experienced customer, and not just with my own account but assisting family and a few friends who have had different services. Sorry, but it is possible to have a life and still be knowledgeable. We just have different interests in what we become knowledgeable on.

I do not believe that you are not either a current or former employee of AT&T/DirectTV.  

If I were a DirecTV or AT&T employee, I assure you I would be making sure customers were better informed, having the right setup of their services that worked best for them (out of the options available of course), and making sure I could help as many people as I could avoid the trap that I see the Genie-2 (HS17) as. If this forum is any example, I do not relish the though of having to deal with the undue entitlement mentality I have observed. Yes many people are legitimately upset, but I see too many times where it is gone overboard in severity such as "I will fade away if I can't watch my bachelorette@" or "It is only one of 2 channels I watch, I expect half or all my bill will be waived".

 

Thankfully with the job I do have, it is of actual importance compared to the "tragedy" of finding another channel to watch for a while.

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6 years ago

When will you post cbs shows we missed to the on demand listings. Please respond

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6 years ago

The op states in his post that he/she checked the local channel lookup tool and his/her zipcode does not offer CBS.

The deal that the op is referring to is a deal between AT&T and CBS to get CBS, CBSSport and the CW back in markets that already had them.

It doesn't state that more CBS locals have been made available.

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6 years ago

When will you post cbs shows we missed to the on demand listings. Please respond

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6 years ago

Amazing.Man Surprised  It never ends.  First the incessant complaints about the networks being taken off the air.  Now this?Man Frustrated  IMO it's now business as usual starting at the point in time the new contract was signed.   Whatever is supposed to be supplied for on demand under whatever contract att has with cbs will be supplied.  IMO neither att nor cbs have any obligation to "make up" for whatever you may have missed.  And it's not under att's control anyhow. 

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6 years ago

I’m on the U300 tier.  Aren’t I supposed to get NFL network?  It’s not listed in my guide or channel search.  NFL games are on now (preseason)

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6 years ago


@Wrightfan99 wrote:

When will you post cbs shows we missed to the on demand listings. Please respond


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