WGN Direct TV

We know this is an unexpected situation. We expect you can enjoy WGN soon. Nexstar, owner of NewsNation, is demanding to significantly increase how much you will have to pay to continue to receive this channel. We’re working hard to make sure you keep this station. Read more: TVPromise.com. Jhoan, DIRECTV Community Specialist

I am willing to pay more for WGN and stop paying for the movie channels that continue to show the same movies over and over again. I am a Chicagoan and need my WGN!!!

I am happy to pay more for WGN and get rid of the movie channels that continue to show the same movies over and over again. I am a Chcagoan and I need my WGN!!!

You might be happy, but not everyone would be happy to pay more every time a station's corporate owner demands more and more money to deliver FREE off-air channels. 

I realize not everyone would be happy paying more but DirecTV can sell it like it does with the rest of it's channels. If you want to watch Oprah's channels you have to pay extra for them, if you want to watch channel 230 you have to pay extra for it. DirecTV makes money by charging for certain stations so they can do the same thing with WGN. I'll pay for it and you won't. 

DTV averages the cost of all local channels they carry into the base cost of the channel packages so they aren't going to change it.   DTV has no control over what a channel does with their programing.

I am now streaming wgn for free via You Tube. It may be time to drop direct tv altogether.

I have been a subscriber of DIRECTV for over 25 years and for 25 years WGN was part of that subscription. They have the best local news, and by local I mean Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin & Indiana. I have friends in Florida and Georgia who watch it. Their morning news team is the best in the country as is their entertainment reporter, Dean Richards. If you don't like loyal subscribers voicing their opinions and letting DIRECTV know that if this isn't resolved soon we will be cancelling our subscriptions then STOP coming to this forum and voicing your inane comments. Get a life Juniper. 

@Juniper 

hey it’s a forum to comment on and I will. It’s a community forum and I’ve given the unavailability of the channel time. This is how they hear from their customers. If you don’t like my opinion, keep on scrolling.

In this day and age of a vast variety of streaming services it’s quite easy to find alternatives. If you pause or take too long, subscribers will move on. 

and who cares if I created the account to comment here?

You are the one who said, and I quote, "Creating a forum account just to announce your possible leaving to strangers seems like a lot of steps that isn't productive. No need to announce departure, this isn't an airport."

The forum is titled "WGN Direct TV" so if you don't like the comments that are being made then don't visit the forum. Everyone has a right to comment on how they feel about this issue  but they should not have to put up with a stream of negative comments from you. Find another forum to lambaste. 

I would suggest you try calling DIRECTV about this. I can tell what will happen if you do. You will be speaking with a person in another country who can't help you with this issue and can't tell who can. They can help you pay your bill, and they can help you upgrade your subscription but with regards to WGN, they will read you the script that you hear when you go to WGN verbatim.  If you try to ask a question or engage them in conversation they cut you off and say they have no further information. So your suggestion that we call DIRECTV  fails because we've tried and DIRECTV has made certain that we will get nowhere with verbal communication. 

Taking one side or the other in a corporate dispute is silly since details are sketchy at best, but one thing I do know is that DIRECTV did NOT reduce my bill when they decided to reduce my service.  It’s easy to side with your service provider when you are not directly effected but I’ve been using this company since 1991 and this happens too frequently with little or no benefit to the end users. 

Actually my timeline is quite accurate since DIRECTV was previously DBS and I have had their service since 91.  I hope you are right, but I am not convinced that these service interruptions are always examples of DIRECTV acting on behalf of subscribers, but maybe that is just my cynicism clouding my judgement. 

Why would any company raise their prices more then necessary?