{"id":664,"date":"2016-06-09T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2016-06-09T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:32:08","slug":"directv-subscribers-can-wait-to-say-goodbyes-to-wday-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/latest-news\/directv-subscribers-can-wait-to-say-goodbyes-to-wday-tv\/664\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV Subscribers Can Wait To Say Goodbyes To WDAY TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_665\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-665\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"wp-image-665 size-medium\" title=\"TV Viewing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DirecTV-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DirecTV\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DirecTV-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DirecTV.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>WDAY And DirecTV<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Fargo based television channel, WDAY TV recently hit the news for its \u2018talks\u2019 with DirecTV to extend their contract. The ABC affiliated channel said that the contracts for WDAZ and KMBY with DirecTV expired on May 30, which they want to renew. Interestingly, the also stated that DirecTV was acting slow to respond to their proposed contract negotiations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to WDAY representatives, the company sent their original carriage contract renewal proposal to DirecTV on January, but the satellite TV giant did not reply to it until May 16. In addition, when WDAY offered a counter-proposal in a couple of days to meet their terms, DirecTV did not respond to that at all. Though WDAY has not provided any details of the offer by DirecTV, a spokesperson said that the proposed bid was quite below than the current market rates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WDAY TV further said in a press release that if the talks with DirecTV do not come to a mutual agreement, subscribers would get their programming free over-the-air. The company said on its website, \u201cWe deeply regret the inconvenience DirecTV\u2019s actions may cause you,\u201d and added, \u201cyou can cancel your satellite service from DirecTV and receive the programs from DirecTV\u2019s competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_666\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-666\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"wp-image-666 size-medium\" title=\"DirecTV Packages\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DirecTV-Select-Package-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DirecTV Select Package\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DirecTV-Select-Package-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetripleplay.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/DirecTV-Select-Package.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>DirecTV Channels<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In response to the remarks made by WDAY, AT&amp;T representative, Mark Giga said that they want to keep the contract alive and come to terms with the TV station provider. \u201cDirecTV is working to keep WDAY and WDAZ in our Fargo, Valley City and Grand Forks customers\u2019 line-ups even though the station\u2019s owner Forum Communications is threatening to block both stations\u2019 signals from reaching their homes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he further added that \u201cForum (Communications) is demanding a significant increase in their current fees just to let these same families keep watching shows that remain available for free over-the-air on channels 21 and 8 and often online at ABC.com or CWTV.com.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cForum has unfortunately suspended its stations from other Fargo, Valley City and Grand Forks providers\u2019 customers before, so we appreciate our customers\u2019 patience as we attempt to resolve this matter quickly, reasonably and with the least inconvenience,\u201d Giga told the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fargo based television channel, WDAY TV recently hit the news for its \u2018talks\u2019 with DirecTV to extend their contract. The ABC affiliated channel said that the contracts for WDAZ and KMBY with DirecTV expired on May 30, which they want to renew. Interestingly, the also stated that DirecTV was acting slow to respond to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,48],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DirecTV Subscribers Can Wait To Say Goodbyes To WDAY TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DirecTV Select package users might get another chance to stay tuned with their favorite programs on WDAY TV. 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