When are you going to resolve the problem with TEGNA?

Ok? Current charter is in negotiations so you may not want to go there. Oh yeah dish and Comcast are up for negotiations as well so nix those 2. Who are you left with?

No streaming provider, exception AT&T-owned ones have Fox Sports regional channels that are owned by Sinclair.

Dish doesn't have HBO.

It'll probably be a very long time until Dish and Sling get Fox Sports channels back.

As this is a redundant thread, it will now be closed.

Most likely part of the recent channel negotiations. Local affiliate owner pulled the feed while they try to get DirecTV to cave into increased rates from customers.

TV Promise - AT&T TV, DIRECTV, U-verse TV

It was your local ABC channel that removed their feed to DTV because DTV will not pay them what they want to renew the contract.  Any increase in price that DTV has to pay your local channel will be add to your bill.

Same - we are disgusted by the continued money hungry execs at these companies that cannot negotiate a deal on behalf of their customers.  We left once and are prepared to do it again.  The knew this was coming and they did nothing to prepare and ensure that if it did happen they had prepared discounts for customers who lost all their major cable stations.  Horrible customer experience.

Read your TOS channels and programing are subject to change at anytime.

We should get a refund as we are paying for local channels and this is a local channel. ATT has the worst customer service and satisfaction of any company I have ever dealt with. We have no choice unless we go streaming and with the ATT fiber being oversold that is a sketchy solution. We need to get out of bondage from ATT. Government has allowed them to purchase too many companies and they have destroyed each one. Now Direct TV which was a pretty good company before ATT purchased them. If enough people keep speaking up loudly they will have to get better. They hire customer service people from temp companies and no training and low pay; YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!  Employees nor customers have loyalty to this company.

I have been on hold many times to get help for an average of 6 to 8 hrs being transferred all departments with massive hold time each transfer and end up with nothing resolved. 

You no longer pay for local channels and per the TOS there are no refunds because a channel removed their feed.

“in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, Tegna is demanding the largest rate increase we have ever seen, and intentionally blacking out its most loyal viewers. We challenge Tegna to return its local stations immediately while we finalize a new agreement and pledge to pay Tegna retroactively whatever higher rates to which we eventually agree. We share our customers’ frustration, appreciate their patience and intend to do all we can to resolve this matter soon," the spokesperson said.

AT&T just cannot "turn on" any channels. It is up to Tegna to provide their signal.

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Your local channel remove their feed to DTV and any increase in the cost DTV pays to them will be passed onto your bill.

Programming is subject to change at any time with or without notice this is true with all pay tv providers because they don't own the channels. Locals are free over the air with an antenna as they always have been. Use an an antenna 

NBC went off the air here in Seattle last evening as well... any idea how long that this will take to be resolved?

If you only watch two networks that you can get FREE, why even pay for TV service?  

“in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, Tegna is demanding the largest rate increase we have ever seen, and intentionally blacking out its most loyal viewers. We challenge Tegna to return its local stations immediately while we finalize a new agreement and pledge to pay Tegna retroactively whatever higher rates to which we eventually agree. We share our customers’ frustration, appreciate their patience and intend to do all we can to resolve this matter soon," the spokesperson said.

They're obviously working on a deal. The word "finalize" seems to indicate good things.

However, this "largest rate increase" will absolutely be passed on. All AT&T customers should demand lower increases, or no increase at all.

This thread is still open.

Hopefully it gets replied to. Please do not clutter up the forums by starting redundant threads. This is not a reply to anyone in this thread, but meant to bump this up past several redundant threads which have been closed.

Correction. NBC.    KSDK

“in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, Tegna is demanding the largest rate increase we have ever seen, and intentionally blacking out its most loyal viewers. We challenge Tegna to return its local stations immediately while we finalize a new agreement and pledge to pay Tegna retroactively whatever higher rates to which we eventually agree. We share our customers’ frustration, appreciate their patience and intend to do all we can to resolve this matter soon," the spokesperson said.

Please do not start redundant threads. There are already several on the first page about this same thing. This thread will now be closed.

Simple answer is you get channel back immediately with higher rate or DirecTV continues to negotiate to prevent or minimize the higher cost.

No politics, just simply time for carriage negotiation between TV provider and channel owner. Switching would not protect you as all providers go through this. Remember, they don't own those channels.

If you have a line item for locals, then you have a very old expired package. Locals have been part of packages for over a decade. So possibility you are paying too much because of that. I would check the lineups of current packages to verify.

And you may expect to get all the channels, but no TV provider promises that you will. They all have a clause that channels and programming are subject to change at any time. They don't own the channels so cannot force them to stay.

You want channel back immediately without cost increase. Not a realistic demand. Channel owner pulled the feed as trying to strong arm higher rates. So DirecTV could just cave adding that local into our higher bill, or they can negotiate and minimize any price increase (ideally prevent or even lower but lets face it, channels charge TV providers more and more each year).

So do you plan to switch every time your life-giving channel goes through negotiations or do you stay patient and see the reality of the situation? If you cannot live without the channel, just use a regular antenna to get the free broadcast for the time being.

You local channel removed their feed to DTV.

Use an antenna 

Tired of loosing another station

Your local channels removed their feed to DTV.

So how much more do you want to pay?  Any increase in what DTV pays to your local channel will be passed onto your bill.

ABC & NBC are available for FREE with an antenna.

YoUr local channels removed their feed to DTV.

Failed contract negotiations.

Your local NBC removed their feed.

It is your local channel that removed their feed because DTV will not pay what they want to renew the contract and only they can return it.

I don't care who pulled what from what!  Like I said:  this is for THEM to work out in a lawyers office -- not something that should be thrust on viewers who entered an agreement that Directv would offer a set of channels and we would pay for it.