Disney and Direct TV In Negotiations For New Agreement

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All my ESPN and FX channels have gone dark.

How long does it normally take for an agreement to be reached?

With football season underway, I hope that a resolution occurs soon.
 
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Volfan1000 said:
All my ESPN and FX channels have gone dark.

How long does it normally take for an agreement to be reached?

With football season underway, I hope that a resolution occurs soon.
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Put up a good antenna and you should be able to watch the Vols game this weekend on ABC.
 
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Now that ABC / ESPN has SEC broadcasting rights, the big regular season matchups will probably be on both network and ESPN to draw the largest ratings.
 
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Yeah, eff Disney and Direct TV. It’s unacceptable. I’m done with Direct TV witch is exactly what Disney wants. They win I guess
 
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I got Youtube TV today for a 3 week trial. When that time is up, I'll cancel. That gets me through the OK game. I also heard that if you lost ESPN, you also lost any ABC/ESPN game, including the FSU/BC game tonight. It may be blacked out on ABC. We'll see in a couple hours.
 
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dillyo51 said:
Disney and Direct knew when the contract expired, why wasn’t a new deal already in place. No one saw this coming, the expiration gate.
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Disney don’t negotiate. I worked with them for 6 years. Been to Bristol, Burbank, Orlando, NYC, London and Paris working with them.

They offered Directtv a deal that DirecTV could not afford to take and told them take it or leave it waiting on the start of the CFB, NFL and the end of US Open so they could have the maximum leverage against Directv.

For everyone wanting Directtv to give in, don’t complain when your bill goes drastically up.

Disney did this with Spectrum last year at EXACT same time of year.

They will rinse and repeat with every provider except Hulu because they own Hulu and so Hulu rolls over and increases your price.

Disney wants more $s per channel and wants the providers to carry more channels with each contract. Both of those cause your bill to explode.

if you want to be unhappy with someone hate Disney, the providers are all getting screwed too.
 
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Dadof2Vols said:
Disney don’t negotiate. I worked with them for 6 years. Been to Bristol, Burbank, Orlando, NYC, London and Paris working with them.

They offered Directtv a deal that DirecTV could not afford to take and told them take it or leave it waiting on the start of the CFB, NFL and the end of US Open so they could have the maximum leverage against Directv.

For everyone wanting Directtv to give in, don’t complain when your bill goes drastically up.

Disney did this with Spectrum last year at EXACT same time of year.

They will rinse and repeat with every provider except Hulu because they own Hulu and so Hulu rolls over and increases your price.

Disney wants more $s per channel and wants the providers to carry more channels with each contract. Both of those cause your bill to explode.

if you want to be unhappy with someone hate Disney, the providers are all getting screwed too.
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The problem with all of this is the entire reason to have live TV is sports. So DirecTV (or whomever) is charging us $70/month (or whatever) but all I watch are live sports, so IDC if Disney is charging DirecTV $15 or $20, or whatever...I'm giving them more than enough to cover that. I don't need 100 channels. I only need about 8 channels and I have absolutely no use for DirecTV if they don't have ESPN
 
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Disney and DirecTV announced they have reached an agreement in principle on Saturday, restoring college football and other programming to the satellite TV provider's more than 11 million subscribers.
 
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Dadof2Vols said:
Disney don’t negotiate. I worked with them for 6 years. Been to Bristol, Burbank, Orlando, NYC, London and Paris working with them.

They offered Directtv a deal that DirecTV could not afford to take and told them take it or leave it waiting on the start of the CFB, NFL and the end of US Open so they could have the maximum leverage against Directv.

For everyone wanting Directtv to give in, don’t complain when your bill goes drastically up.

Disney did this with Spectrum last year at EXACT same time of year.

They will rinse and repeat with every provider except Hulu because they own Hulu and so Hulu rolls over and increases your price.

Disney wants more $s per channel and wants the providers to carry more channels with each contract. Both of those cause your bill to explode.

if you want to be unhappy with someone hate Disney, the providers are all getting screwed too.
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The lesson is invest your money into sports bars and tell Direct TV if they go up $1, you’re swapping services.
 
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