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Saturday, September 2nd, 2023 1:49 AM

U of M Football games

How can you justify making customers pay extra to watch college football?

We have paid your outrageous premiums for 20 years and this is how you repay us, by making us pay extra for a local channel, you have NO INTEGRITY 

If you don't change this, you're going to lose another customer

ACE - Expert

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21.2K Messages

2 years ago

Nexstar is the one that wants more money which is why DTV has to raise their rates as do all TV providers and streaming services.

ACE - Professor

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2 years ago

Get an antenna 

ACE - Expert

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2 years ago

@mollyvokes2837 

Channel owner (most likely Nexstar right now) pulls the feed because they are trying to get TV provider to accept higher rates. That succeeding would factor into future price adjustments when our bills go up.

This is assuming the game is on a local channel. If the game is on a Regional Sports Network (RSN) then if in your region it is available in Choice or higher, which does have an RSN fee based on where you live (as sports channels are not free). If out-of-market RSN then you add the Sports Pack (or if in-market but in Entertainment or lower than Sports Pack is cheaper than raising to Choice).

Instead of claiming "NO INTEGRITY" I suggest you educate yourself on what actually is happening. Local channels are not free to TV providers. And you don't pay extra to add a local channel, that is not how it works.


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