{"id":2022,"date":"2017-01-04T11:29:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T11:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2019-07-29T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:38:21","slug":"wsoc-blacked-out-on-att-directv-but-returns-after-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/cable\/wsoc-blacked-out-on-att-directv-but-returns-after-new-deal\/2022\/","title":{"rendered":"WSOC Blacked Out On AT&#038;T DirecTV, But Returns After New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2023\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2023\" class=\"wp-image-2023 size-medium\" title=\"WSOC-TV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DirecTV-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DirecTV\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DirecTV-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DirecTV.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>U-Verse Channels<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AT&amp;T and WSOC-TV agreed that it is a shame that DirecTV and U-Verse users lost access to the Charlotte ABC affiliate on New Year\u2019s Eve, and the drama was over by the end of the day. Cox Media Group announced on Sunday that they have reached deals with both U-Verse and DirecTV services for WSOC and the signals would be returning to the services soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interestingly, both AT&amp;T and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coxmediagroup.com\/\">Cox Media Group<\/a> blamed the other for the failure to have a contract. This led to WAXN (Channel 64) and WSOC (Channel 9) blacking out on DirecTV and U-Verse packages. Joe Pomilla, vice president and general manager of WSOC-TV, blamed DirecTV and U-Verse for refusing to pay reasonable rates to support local programming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cProducing and broadcasting high-rated, top-quality programming is very expensive,\u201d the station said in an online Q&amp;A. \u201cWSOC-TV invests hundreds of thousands of dollars in our local news, weather and emergency programming. Without the fees from cable and satellite operators, this would not be possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2024\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2024\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2024\" class=\"wp-image-2024 size-medium\" title=\"New Deal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DirecTV-Choice-Package-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"DirecTV Choice Package\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DirecTV-Choice-Package-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DirecTV-Choice-Package.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>DirecTV Services <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Josh Gelinas, the communications director for AT&amp;T, replied that Cox Broadcasting, which owns the WSOC-TV stations, is asking for \u201ca significant increase in fees just to allow the same families to keep watching shows that remain available for free over-the-air on channels 9 and 64, and that ABC typically streams for free at abc.com and to fans using the WatchABC app.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Q&amp;A shared in the WSOC website notes that they have reached agreements with all the other major satellite and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/\">cable TV companies<\/a> like Comcast and Dish Network. \u201cNaturally, we cannot give away our product for less than it is worth,\u201d the statement says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AT&amp;T said that Cox Media Group has been involved brief shutdowns during the various contract negotiations that has taken place in the past, \u201cso we appreciate our customers\u2019 patience as we work to resolve this matter quickly and reasonably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If a deal was not made between WSOC-TV and AT&amp;T, the ABC affiliate would have been dropped from all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/directv-packages\/\">DirecTV packages<\/a> and U-Verse channel list forever. Return of the WSOC-TV channels to DirecTV and U-Verse is happy news for the WSOC-TV fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T and WSOC-TV agreed that it is a shame that DirecTV and U-Verse users lost access to the Charlotte ABC affiliate on New Year\u2019s Eve, and the drama was over by the end of the day. Cox Media Group announced on Sunday that they have reached deals with both U-Verse and DirecTV services for WSOC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,68,76],"tags":[5,46],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WSOC Blacked Out On AT&amp;T DirecTV, But Returns After New Deal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WSOC blacked out on AT&amp;T DirecTV, but returns after new deal. 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