Sinclair warns of 112 channels being dropped by DISH next Monday (8/16)

[mwdxer1]

Thank god for my antenna Of course there goes the guide data

I have the same thing here with Sinclair's OTA (Portland). I also have the Firestick with the Recast, so I do get an OTA guide/DVR setup there.

 

[Howard Simmons]

I went to the Dish promise website and it looks like they are starting their anti Sinclair rhetoric. This is getting old. https://my.dish.com/promise?_ga=2.120347464.1954315627.1628537795-441645084.1627151719

 

[dishdude]

This will be it for me with Dish if this comes to pass. I'm losing three stations this time(ABC, CW and NBC)

Ridiculous that one company can own 3 stations in a single market.

 

[Howard Simmons]

Ridiculous that one company can own 3 stations in a single market.

Look at Lima Ohio. One company owns all the stations in that area. hometownstations.com | West Central Ohio's News, Weather and Sports Leader They are owned by Block Communications out of Toledo: Information about Your Hometown Stations

 

[Howard Simmons]

This crap is giving me a headache and my blood pressure is going up.

 

[Willh699]

well, it was a matter of time before Sinclair would do their bullying for money tactics of a negotiation for a new retransmission contract and now that they fully own Bally Sports (FKA Fox Sports Net), i guess they are trying to negotiate to bundle the RSNs with their local O&O stations. i feel bad for you Dish customers now as i too was a Dish customer. but hey, at least you got HBO & Cinemax back after nearly 3 years, so maybe they will settle with Sinclair to get to keep local Sinclair O&O stations on and Bally Sports back on Dish.

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[Scott Greczkowski]

so maybe they will settle with Sinclair to get to keep local Sinclair O&O stations on and Bally Sports back on Dish.

I doubt it.

 

[bluenerd]

If Sinclair went out of business I would not shed a single tear.

 

[odbrv]

When we lost locals in our area, Dish installed a tv antenna and a dual tuner at no cost to us. Too bad they cannot do Prime Time Anytime using local channels from their tuner.

 

[Jon J]

Ridiculous that one company can own 3 stations in a single market.

Political post contemplated. Rejected.

 

[TheKrell]

Too bad they cannot do Prime Time Anytime using local channels from their tuner.

Hear hear. A quad tuner adapter might be in order...

 

[Tampa8]

This will be it for me with Dish if this comes to pass. I'm losing three stations this time(ABC, CW and NBC)

Or do what I would certainly do if I wanted to stay with DISH - "MOVE" ... Of course if you want to switch from DISH I guess this is a reason.

 

[dweber]

Fortunately, I got my outside antenna hooked back up again last week. So if I lose WSYX (ABC) and WTTE (Fox) from Columbus I can still get them OTA on my 2 Hopper3 receivers. Hopefully Dish will continue to supply the Guide information if the satellite signals have to be removed. In the past the Guide for the OTA channels were removed when the satellite channels were removed. Recently Dish has kept the OTA guide when they had to remove the satellite channels.


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[MikeD-C05]

Huh? I get guide data on my OTA locals...

I get guide data on my Slingtv anywhere device and my Tablo dvr. Won't bother me one bit if they pull their stations.

 

[Joe Capitano]

And a loss of Tennis Channel. I forgot they owned Tennis Channel. I flip that on from time to time and that could be a loss for me. ...

Especially in about three weeks when play in the U.S. Open, the year's final Major, starts up. ESPN has the bulk of that tournament, however.

Why Sinclair is roping carriage of its sports properties into local retrans fees is beyond me. Fees for retrans should be a totally separate negotiation untied to any other channel.

Here in Western WA we've lost both Sinclair channels to previous retrans spats. KOMO/4 (ABC) the last time the parent company couldn't agree, and more recently KUNS/51 (UNI) when and while Univision had its whiny fit.

I have an antenna so I can get channels from Vancouver, BC (abut 40 miles north of me) for backup. But, the "Summer Fun & Games" lineup will be a problem since the bulk of that airs up there on a channel I can't reliably get. I WANT MY WHAMMY, CHASE, PYRAMID AND HOLEY MOLEY!

I also want my "COLLEGE!," as Tony Reali says on "Around The Horn."

More often than not, I have found that once things get to the point of seeing whiny press releases from both sides as we have now, it's time to get an antenna up if you can for backup. The Sinclair stations will get replaced by a barker channel and we - the ones caught in the middle - will be p-d-o-d for a while before common sense hits and cooler heads finally prevail.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Hear hear. A quad tuner adapter might be in order...

I have one . Actually a couple of 4 tuner devices like I posted before. You can buy one and use it with your antenna and it provides full guide data as long as you hook it up to the internet. You don't even have to be a Sling customer to use the Air tv anywhere device and it works over the Sling tv app. Both devices do a great job for recording 4 things at the same time ,but the Tablo does dolby digital sound and you can enable the commercial skip for $20.00 a year and it will all record without commercials. I consider it my version of Primetime any time .

 

[FTA4PA]

Antenna here so not a problem.

 

[Yespage]

112 local stations?! That isn't being asleep at the switch, that is closing the regulatory building and vacating it.

Meanwhile and completely coincidentally, Dish partners with Locast for redistribution (sat/digital) of local channels, and sends boatloads of cash to Congress. Luckily the channels in Cleveland are owned by small Mom and Pop S&P's like Tegna, Scripps, and Raycomm.

 

[navychop]

Thank god for my antenna Of course there goes the guide data

PSIP

 

[navychop]

I think Sinclair is on weak financial footing, and Charlie smells BLOOD!

Side note: People actually WATCH tennis? Gee, it isn't as exciting as curling!