Direct TV - Losing FOX Channels Nov 1st?

[LMITOUT]

Just caught the end of a commercial. Is Direct TV in a contract dispute with FOX now?

[PurpleFloyd]

Yep.

Fox is raising their rates 40% and DTV doesn't want to pay it.

[pushbutton]

Deja vu from last years dish fiasco, bummer for those who made the jump, might have to jump to cable now; suppose this will eventually happen there as well. Billionaires squabbling; oh well, guess we will have to step in and help them out..... maybe the OWS' ers can add no price hikes for tv on their platform.

[toughguy]

The outage will last a few days at most. These things get worked out fairly quickly with the satellite companies. Too many subscribers at risk of leaving.

I work with small cable providers and they are constantly complaining about the programming fee increases from the networks. The increases you see on your bill are 99% due to what the stations are charging. There aren't a lot of cable or telephone companies making a profit from video anymore. Pay per view, broadband, and telephone (maybe) are where the profits are coming from now days. ESPN and Fox Sports are by far the most expensive and it's not even close. If you want to offer ESPN on your channel line up (like it's really an option) you have to order all ESPN stations and several others you might not even want. The networks will also tell you where you have to place your channels in relation to each other. I don't blame DirecTv for pushing back. It has to end somewhere. Don't worry DirecTV will cave and we'll all end up paying more.

[LMITOUT]

This is a biggie for D-TV subs. NatGeo, Speed, all of the FOX Regional channels such as FS North, FX, Fuel, Fox Movie Channel.

Don't worry Pushbutton... FOX News will still be on.

[McGurk]

I'd hate to see them go, but I'm about 4 months into a 2 year contract with DTV, and life will go on. I will miss It's Aways Sunny, Archer, and The League, along with some of the other FX programming. They are really putting some great addictive drama out there with Sons of Anarchy and Justified, too. It's almost like having an HBO Lite included with most channel packages.

They'll get it figured out, and we'll have to eat the price hikes, like we always do. There is some premium quality TV on network and cable now, whereas we used to have to defer to Movies for stuff like that. AMC and FX have really pushed the envelope for us, and I like it!

[mrklean]

im glad ill be gone this week hopefully its solved by the time i get back

[ozzie]

quick??? depends on how you define quick...the same dispute with dish lasted several months if I do recall.....

[LMITOUT]

They were at a standoff for 30 days last year.

[lovetoicefish]

What were the results of the 'standoff'?

[LMITOUT]

I don't recall who blinked.

I am hearing that a deal was reached between Direct tv and FOX just this afternoon.

[lovetoicefish]

Thanks, I'm sure they have posted on their web site. I'll have to check. Good luck hunting this week-end!

[lovetoicefish]

No disruption in service, DTV and NEWS Corp/Fox reached an agreement. No other details were given. Not sure what I would have done if Nat Geo and SPEED channels were not avaiable.

[ozzie]

dang direct tv solves its issues alot quicker than dish...haha

[LMITOUT]

dang direct tv solves its issues alot quicker than dish...haha

Yeah, it only took 6 1/2 months for Direct TV to get Versus back.

[PierBridge]

Thank goodness....I didn't want to miss Son's of Anarchy!

Direct TV will always be one step ahead of Dishnet...

[mrklean]

that was quick nice to see we arent gonna miss its always sunny

[zamboni]

I have DirecTv, and heres my beef with Fox/DirecTv-

I HAD Minneapolis FOX, 3-4 weeks ago we here in the Mankato area lost that and it was replaced with FOX Mankato. Whats the big deal, you may ask- FOX Mankato thru DirecTv is NOT HD capable. Not only is it not HD, on my 42" in the living room, I lost 3" of picture on both sides of the TV. UGH!!

[silverbulletguy]

Can you adjust the picture to get that 3" back. On mine there is a "aspect" button on my TV remote that allows me to basically zoom in a bit and get the full screen picture back. While it isn't HD quality it helps quite a bit when watching the WILD beat the Red Wings.

[2k1stang]

I'm in the same boat as you, zamboni. I hate the Mankato Fox station.

[zamboni]

Can you adjust the picture to get that 3" back. On mine there is a "aspect" button on my TV remote that allows me to basically zoom in a bit and get the full screen picture back. While it isn't HD quality it helps quite a bit when watching the WILD beat the Red Wings.

You can, but it is the only station I need to do it to, plus when that is done and you are watching sporting events, the scoreboard disappears. Something needs to be done between FOX Mankato and DirecTv.