If Tribune and DirecTV do not come to a retransmission fee agreement by the 31st of March, stations like SFLTV… pardon, WSFL, may go dark for DirecTV customers in South Florida much like WSVN did back in January. The talk from both sides in this conflict is very similar to that of WSVN vs DirecTV. DirecTV released a statement saying
“We believe Tribune’s local news and other programming is important to the public, have always compensated Tribune fairly and have no problem continuing to do so. We have absolutely no intention of denying anyone access to these stations, unless Tribune specifically demands it.”
Sounds familiar doesn’t it! Tribune on its part brought up the “fair value” card saying: “Despite our best efforts, DirecTV is refusing to offer a fair deal and we remain far apart in negotiations,”.
/hat tip Matt/
You’re welcome. 🙂
nothing to watch on that channel anyways..
If WSFL goes off the air that might prompt its viewers to get a job, complete elementary school or learn how to read and write.
The smaller Tribune CW stations suck. The large ones especially WGN and KTLA are worth paying more for!
For that is the main reason I like Dish Network for their superstations package. Other than that I wouldn’t care if they went bankrupt.
Can you say…ANTENNA?
Wow, it seems WLVI in Boston was vulnerable in every way possible. Even if this dispute had occured before December 2006, WLVI viewers would still have been in the dark. It’s a known fact that Tribune sold WLVI to Sunbeam in September of that year. Thus, either way WLVI was doomed to begin with.