There was a mention in an article in the Wall Street Journal today concerning the DTV vs Viacom dispute that DTV begins negotiating this fall with CBS.
You don't think a sports bar could throw up an antenna?bills976 said:If the CBS O&O stations go off the air during the NFL season they had better be prepared for sports bars and individual consumers to throw a fit over the Sunday Ticket blackout policy.
I am sure they have run the numbers but you have to figure that disputes with the O&O will affect far more customers than the disputes with the affiliates run by Raycom, Belo, Tribune, etc.
That's insane. Look at the markets.tonyd79 said:CBS? That would be a handful (16) of local stations owned by them, CBS Sports Network and (maybe) Showtime. Some of the local stations in big markets, of course.
Hardly a big deal.
That completely depends on line of sight which isn't always easy to attain in the top DMAs. I lived in the NYC DMA for 20+ years and I was never able to pull anything in OTA... and I imagine with the mountains surrounding LA that they will face similar problems.tonyd79 said:You don't think a sports bar could throw up an antenna?
The NFL owns the feeds, and DirecTV gets the feeds directly from the networks without having to go through an affiliate. Any CBS (or Fox) affiliates being dropped by DirecTV would have no effect on the NFL Sunday Ticket feeds.Pepe Sylvia said:Also, who owns the network feeds fed to the affiliates for NFL Sunday Ticket?
Actually, reception in 95% of the Los Angeles area is pretty good.... they put the antenna's on TOP of those mountains.bills976 said:and I imagine with the mountains surrounding LA that they will face similar problems.
Yes, Sunday Ticket is a contract with the NFL, not CBS. CBS just has the rights to carry the broadcast on their affiliate stations.Pepe Sylvia said:That's insane. Look at the markets.
CBS Television Stations consists of 28 owned-and-operated stations, including 16 that are part of the CBS Television Network, eight affiliates of The CW Network, two independent stations and two MyNetworkTV affiliates. Among itsstationsareWCBS-TV (New York), KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV (LosAngeles),WBBM-TV (Chicago), KYW-TV and WPSG-TV (Philadelphia),KTVT-TV and KTXA-TV (Dallas-Ft. Worth), KPIX-TV and KBCW-TV (San Francisco), WBZ-TV and WSBK-TV (Boston), WUPA-TV (Atlanta), WWJ-TV and WKBD-TV (Detroit), KSTW-TV (Seattle), WTOG-TV (Tampa-St. Petersburg), WCCO-TV (Minneapolis), KCNC-TV (Denver), WFOR-TV and WBFS-TV (Miami), KOVR-TV and KMAX-TV (Sacramento), KDKA-TV and WPCW-TV (Pittsburgh), WJZ-TV (Baltimore), as well as WCCO-TV's satellite stations KCCO-TV (Alexandria, MN) and KCCW-TV (Walker, MN).
Sure, no big deal. Also, who owns the network feeds fed to the affiliates for NFL Sunday Ticket?