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DirecTV/Viacom Dispute?

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#1 ·
So, I was just flipping through channels and when I stopped on Nick, I happened to see a crawl at the bottom of the screen.

It states:

Attention DirecTV Customers - Call 1-800-531-5000 Now!
Tomorrow Night, DirecTV will drop this and 25 other channels.
You will lose Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, VH1, Spike, TV Land and many more. You can stop them! Call now and demand that DirecTV keep these channels on the air. You must be at least 18 years old to call.

This is the first I've heard about any DirecTV/Viacom dispute and haven't seen the crawl on any other Viacom channels. Also, I would assume that the crawl would have started running prior to the night before.

Any one have any information on this?

Dan
 
#2 ·
Dan, the only thing I'm finding on the 'net is Viacom's blog slamming DirecTV for dropping these channels. Common sense tells me since Viacom is the one running the info on the blog as well as the screen call, this is a last-ditch effort to get the pressure on DirecTV to meet their demands for pricing, particularly with their claim that they comprise 20% of DirecTV's viewing. My gut instinct tells me that DirecTV likely serves more than 20% of Viacom's customers, though, so I don't know how this will play out.

Over/under on stations going away? I'm gonna take about 3 days. :)
 
#5 ·
Now there is a DirecTV-inserted crawl on Nick that says:

"It's unlikely but Viacom could suspend this channel on July 11. Please see DIRECTVpromise.com. Viacom, who owns this channels, wants you to pay 30% more ($1 billion extra) to get the same networks without any choice."
 
#16 ·
One thing though...DirecTV is fantastic with negotiations. You usually never even know when they're going on, unlike Dish Network which yanks channels all the time and for extended periods (FX was six months, YES, SNY, MSG have been gone for...two years?). The Tribune dispute lasted a week before they came back online.
 
#23 ·
Bmayes04 said:
According to DTV rep I spoke with in the phone, they were in fact blindsided by the Viacom scroll, and threats to pull channels. Just more positioning in contract negotiations. She also said the directv promise site would be updated soon.
Im talking with them right now, and Im wondering what the hell is going on? I think we may be getting credits apalooza which would be nice for people like me that are trying to compensate for Sunday Ticket.
 
#25 ·
That is a little greedy on behalf of Viacom. They want a 30% increase and people that were lucky to get an increase in their pay, maybe got 3%. Most fixed or retires incomes that have a cost of living clause, might get a 3% increase in their checks. I would be glad to give them 30%, increase, if I got a 30% increase in my pay.
 
#26 ·
Always find these spats interesting. Shame that there's not some way to make the content provider pricing more transparent to the end consumer to let the public decide what's a fair price.

And with the newer technologies they may be haggling over some other terms as well.
 
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