For people who have WGN & DirecTV

[pduh01]

I haven't keep up with some of the news and this is one of them which I just find out now...

Tribune's current agreement with DirecTV expires at midnight March 31, and the company said it wanted to start alerting viewers now of a possible disruption of service.

"Despite our best efforts, DirecTV is refusing to offer a fair deal and we remain far apart in negotiations,” said Tribune Broadcasting President Nils Larsen.

With more than 19 million subscribers, DirecTV is the nation's second-largest pay TV distributor, behind Comcast. In a statement, DirecTV said, "We anticipate that Tribune will honor its 165-year history of serving the public interest and allow the stations to remain on as we continue to negotiate." The company added that it has "no problem compensating Tribune fairly."

Tribune Co. declined to comment on how much it is seeking from DirecTV. The company did say in its statement that DirecTV has never paid to carry its local stations in the past.

However, DirecTV does pay to carry WGN America, the Tribune-owned national cable channel that carries Chicago Cubs and White Sox baseball as well as Chicago Bulls basketball. A person familiar with the matter not authorized to speak publicly about negotiations said previous deals for WGN America have also included Tribune's local stations.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... rectv.html

That really suck for some people who can't afford/order NBA league Pass and not able to watch the Bulls, and they only have to rely either stream, or other games on national television(TNT, ESPN, ABC.) or some other shows or baseball which is coming up.

It is possible they could reach a deal right at the deadline just on time like what happen with DTV and Fox I believe sometime last year.

[arjay702]

It's like a lockout all over again. Good thing we switched back to comcast again.

[TheSchmaranz]

Usually they reach an agreement at the last minute because neither Tribune Co. nor DirecTV will look good here.

As someone who has DirecTV, it'll surely suck if this does happen.

[Jvaughn]

Hey Pduh, you know I work with Directv for marketing. Directv will handle this like they did with the Fox holdout. Last minute they'll sign the contract. It's just business negotiations. They'll be fine by the deadline.

[imagge]

I haven't keep up with some of the news and this is one of them which I just find out now...

Tribune's current agreement with DirecTV expires at midnight March 31, and the company said it wanted to start alerting viewers now of a possible disruption of service.

"Despite our best efforts, DirecTV is refusing to offer a fair deal and we remain far apart in negotiations,” said Tribune Broadcasting President Nils Larsen.

With more than 19 million subscribers, DirecTV is the nation's second-largest pay TV distributor, behind Comcast. In a statement, DirecTV said, "We anticipate that Tribune will honor its 165-year history of serving the public interest and allow the stations to remain on as we continue to negotiate." The company added that it has "no problem compensating Tribune fairly."

Tribune Co. declined to comment on how much it is seeking from DirecTV. The company did say in its statement that DirecTV has never paid to carry its local stations in the past.

However, DirecTV does pay to carry WGN America, the Tribune-owned national cable channel that carries Chicago Cubs and White Sox baseball as well as Chicago Bulls basketball. A person familiar with the matter not authorized to speak publicly about negotiations said previous deals for WGN America have also included Tribune's local stations.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... rectv.html

That really suck for some people who can't afford/order NBA league Pass and not able to watch the Bulls, and they only have to rely either stream, or other games on national television(TNT, ESPN, ABC.) or some other shows or baseball which is coming up.

It is possible they could reach a deal right at the deadline just on time like what happen with DTV and Fox I believe sometime last year.

I wouldn't worry about it, they strike a deal at the last minute every time. It happens to a TV affiliate where I live all the time with DirecTV, we get the same message and a deal is struck before the expiration date every time. Has happened like that for the last 4 years.

[sutrick]

Don't be so sure that an agreement will take place at the last minute. That was always the case with MSG and Time Warner until this time. MSG was deleted for almost 2 1/2 months. The only thing that prevented from lasting was LInsanity. NYC is heavily Time Warner and so many New Yorkers couldn't watch the Lin story evolve even though it was the Knicks. Finally Gov. Cuomo got MSG and Time Warner together.
That will be the greatest accomplishment for Jeremy Lin.

[mr.ankle]

They will get a deal done . This happen a couple of months ago between them and FX