When are you going to resolve the problem with TEGNA?

This is a customer-to-customer forum. Unfortunately, the few AT&T employees that post here (their posts are marked as employees) do not know.

It could be in two minutes. It could be two months. Honestly, it'll probably be somewhere between that.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/texans/amp/watch-locast-KHOU-Tegna-DirecTV-AT-T-uverse-15772889.php

How to watch KHOU.

Dispute on pricing!!  I want NewsCenter Maine back!  I tried to call the customer service number and you can't get through.  That's bad business.

and the other providers are next, so if ya jump ship you may be at a new provider just in time for their negotiations

Learn the truth about retransmission fees and greedy corporate station owners here .... https://youtu.be/rppTzSP5NI4

ok

@Constructive   I got this....

What's the problem with keeping an OTA antenna around for situations like this or even if TV service is interrupted for a period of time?  I'm not going to do without my TV if I can help it.

Better to use an antenna than to curse contract negotiations.  Isn't that how that saying goes?

You have nothing to do with me having a business, as I (and the other people in this forum) aren't AT&T, but are other customers like you.  So you are ranting to people who are going through the same thing, not people who can do anything about it.

You don't have to pay for local stations - just get an antenna.  But if you want to use any sort of carrier service (cable, satellite, or streaming) to get those stations, Congress in 1992 (codifying some practices going back decades before that) passed a law that any cable system (and later satellite and streaming service) that wanted to carry the signals of another service (most particularly in this case, a local broadcast station) must get permission and pay whatever that service wants in compensation.  In the early years the local broadcast stations didn't charge the cable systems too much for this permission, but in recent years (perhaps because ad revenue is down due to lower viewership) they've been jacking up those fees at an increasingly aggressive rate.  The report is that Tegna (the station owner in this case, which owns many stations for several different networks across the country) in this new negotiation demanded a very substantial increase across the board, though we don't know the details.  If AT&T (or other carriers - Tegna has done this to many carriers in recent years) just gives in to the demands, they will certainly pass their increased costs through to you.  However, Tegna (and other local station owners) have a major point of leverage - they can cut off the carrier's signal, and they know that almost all customers will blame the carrier, not the station owner (as you indeed have here).  But you should really be unhappy with the station owners who are demanding large fees to carry stations that as you note are available for free OTA, and which gain additional viewers (which leads to higher advertising revenue) from the carriage.  This is the world we live in - the stations are allowed to do this, and all the carriers can do is negotiate the fees.  The station owners believe that with their signal cut off, the customers (viewers) will put enough pressure on the carrier to give in, and they will then also blame the carrier for the raised costs that follow, not the stations that were the cause of them.

@OttoPylot years ago during the digital OTA transition we had 2 channels available, now theres about 12 stations and growing

You'll know when you can watch NBC and/or ABC.

would you rather at&t just cave and charge us an extra 25-40 dollars a month?

FUN FACT: other providers are going through the same negotiations too

dont go to charter we just lost our locals yesterday

Learn the truth about retransmission fees and greedy corporate station owners here ....  https://youtu.be/rppTzSP5NI4

  You are paying for a TV service, not specific individual channels.

 per these terms of service 8. INTERRUPTIONS, LIMITATIONS, AND MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE

Service may be temporarily interrupted or otherwise limited for a variety of reasons; some beyond the control of AT&T. AT&T reserves the right to refuse credit allowances for interruptions of Service. AT&T also reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, at any time and from time to time, the Services (or any function or feature of the Services or any part thereof) without liability. You acknowledge that AT&T may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services, including without limitation, the limits set forth in the attached Schedule 1 and Schedule 2.

.  You are paying for a TV service, not specific individual channels.

as per these terms of service 8. INTERRUPTIONS, LIMITATIONS, AND MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE

Service may be temporarily interrupted or otherwise limited for a variety of reasons; some beyond the control of AT&T. AT&T reserves the right to refuse credit allowances for interruptions of Service. AT&T also reserves the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, at any time and from time to time, the Services (or any function or feature of the Services or any part thereof) without liability. You acknowledge that AT&T may establish general practices and limits concerning use of the Services, including without limitation, the limits set forth in the attached Schedule 1 and Schedule 2.