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Friday, December 29th, 2023 3:57 AM

When is CBS going to return to the Houston area??

We’re fairly new to DIRECTV and didn’t really pay attention to the announcement that they were in negotiations with the company that provides the CBS feed in Houston a month or so ago. Having coming from N Texas and having Frontier we ever had blackouts due to renegotiations. We weee. Notified. But there was never an interruption. 

Having said all that, it’s been 3 weeks. Still no resolution?? Does this happen all the time? If it weren’t for the 2 sports channels that only DIRECTV has that carries the Texas bb teams, I’d be changing carriers in a hot minute! 

ACE - Expert

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11 months ago

Short answer is when Tegna returns the feed to DTV.  Sometimes DTV reaches an agreement with the content provider before the contract is up so there is no blackout other times not.  The other way to prevent blackouts is to cave and pay what they are asking then raise the customers bills even more.  This effects all TV providers including streaming service with live channels.


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