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Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 9:11 PM

Newsmax

Just heard you do not pay carriage costs to very popular Newsmax and yet you do pay much less popular left leaning news shows.  Please explain this. This leaves no option for Newsmax to remain on Direct TV. You can decide what shows you carry/payfor. Likewise your longtime customers can decide what we will pay for. You might want to rethink this unfair practice.

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2 years ago

According to DIRECTV, they didn’t want to pat carriage fees for NEWSMAX because currently newsmax offers their programming free of charge on their independent streaming service for a variety of devices like phones, tablets, and streaming devices. 
You’ve reached a public forum full of customers so we are not at all responsible for what went down yesterday. 

I will agree that this outcome comes with the loss of countless customers who rely on NEWSMAX for news. Especially, of course, that they already dropped OANN which disappointed the conservative market (customers) off the bat. 

Hopefully they settle an agreement soon. That’s  all we can positively say about NEWSMAX’s reappearance on DIRECTV.

Otherwise, you cancel and find a different priced live TV provider that offers the channels you want to watch for a cheaper rate.  

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2 years ago

Directv pays CNN and allows them not one channel, but three.  CNN has the viewership these days of a YouTube channel.  So take one of those under-used CNN channels and give it to Newsmax.

I suspended my Directv today.  Unless Newsmax comes back, I'll make that a "close my account" next week.


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