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Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 12:15 AM

remove channels

How do I remove channels from my lineup? DirecTV says to go to manage my package, view my lineup, and click 'add' or 'remove' next to the appropriate channel. There is no option to do that when I get there. In fact, there seems to be no way to view my personal lineup as it exists in my package, just the lists for the packages, none of which are the package I have, which has been retired

2 Messages

1 year ago

So what are the instructions a little more clearly to do it please.  I have elderly parents and only want channels they like and not 1000 channels.  Terrible.  I want to get rid of all that they never watch ever so as they use the remote, they scroll through the ones they do like to find something.  

ACE - Expert

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20.6K Messages

1 year ago

In most cases press the info button then right arrow to favorites then setup custom 1 or 2

1 year ago

Just cancel my service now!!!!!!!!!!!

The price just keeps going up and up and up and up. I've gone from $85 to $187. 

Time to end this terrible service and customer suport. 187 is a murder death kill in police terms, so it's time to completely be done with this service. 

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ACE - Expert

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20.6K Messages

1 year ago

So long as the content providers keep raising the rates to all TV providers bills will go up.

ACE - Expert

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14.1K Messages

1 year ago

To cancel you will have to call directv. 

1 year ago

I wanted to but they were closed. I had to wait for morning. I tried to remove Stars from my package online, but it seems you can only add stuff online. I guess to remove anything, you have to call. 

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1 year ago

So I must cancel before the next bill starts. Thank you. 

1 year ago

Talking to a person now about it. They don't listen well. They don't take no easily. I explained how the last time my wife called to cancel, they just added stars and would not listen to her, so she just hung up on them. So stars was added without our approval. My wife has been sick, so we have been forgetting to call in. It's done now. What a relief. But we still have to send the equipment back. 

ACE - Expert

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20.6K Messages

1 year ago

DTV can only talk to the account holder or someone they added to the account.

1 year ago

So they will send me boxes? That is what I thought. Thank you for verifying that. I will verify every box is scanned properly, when I drop them off.

When we tried at&t, We didn't have service a whole weekend. It was hit and miss all weekend. So I decided to go back to Verizon. When I returned all 5 phones, I did not notice one phone was not scannned. Then I keep getting calls to pay for the non-returned device. It actually took about 4 months before I realized the receipt from where I dropped off the boxes only had 4 tracking numbers, not 5. So we contacted the Costco at&t and explained what happened. They said don't worry about it. You did what you were supposed to do. So you're good to go. I guess it was good we went through the Costco at&t. 

ACE - Expert

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20.6K Messages

1 year ago

They only send boxes if you are more then 10 miles from a UPS/FedEx store then you take them to the post office and you may need to call them.

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1 year ago

Okay. I need to verify what needs to be done. I'm expecting them to send something that tells me what to do with the equipment. So that sounds like I take it to my local authorized company to return it. Then they will box it up. That would probably be easier.

ACE - Expert

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20.6K Messages

1 year ago

Actually they bulk ship them back to DTV.

1 year ago

Yeah, I figured that out when shannon02 explained that. Thank you all for your input. 

I'm just waiting for them to let me know what to do next. There is one box shop with FedEx and UPS, that I would think they would have me take it to, since I live in a small town. 

ACE - Expert

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20.6K Messages

1 year ago

Probably not unless they have the scanner and software to add them to the DTV system. Call them to see.


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