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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
On July 9, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi composed a puff piece to honor Stephen Colbert, fake news commentator and satirical fake conservative. It turns out Colbert is becoming an obsession in academia, with a new collegiate submersion in...
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Daily Breeze
| 10 months ago
The dispute was over how much DirecTV should pay Viacom for such channels as MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. On Wednesday, Viacom ramped up its pressure on DirecTV by removing access to full-length episodes of its shows from its websites,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: July 13, 2012 , 5:08 p.m. DirecTV subscribers looking to plop the kids in front of the TV to watch Nickelodeon this weekend will likely have to use Netflix instead. Although talks between the...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
ET Viacom took down some full-length episode streams on its websites. Instead, it now displays a video ad suggesting viewers call DirecTV. As one of the largest cable blackouts in the industry's history stretches into its fourth day, analysts say...
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Tech Dirt
| 10 months ago
Yesterday, we wrote about Viacom's reactionary strategy of holding its fans hostage by shutting down online streams of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report after DirecTV advised its customers (who just lost access to Viacom shows) to watch them...
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The Orange County Register
| 10 months ago
52 am · DirecTV is trying to make up for the loss of Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and others earlier this week after the satellite provider and Viacom couldn't reach an agreement by giving customers eight Encore stations, including Encore Family,...
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Sacramento Bee
| 10 months ago
Channels owned by Viacom went black on Wednesday, the byproduct of yet another dispute with DirecTV over so-called carriage fees money paid for the right to retransmit content. Both sides are blaming each other amid failed talks for a new carriage...
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Muncie Free Press
| 10 months ago
Daily Show,' 'Colbert Report' Cease Streaming Online Due To Viacom vs. Fans of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report may have noticed that you can no longer watch the full shows via online streaming on the Comedy Central website. The...
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Venture Beat
| 10 months ago
Dish Network customers still don't have access to the cable network AMC, following a contract dispute between the two companies, but at least they'll be able to catch the season premiere episode of Breaking Bad on the Web. For one time only, you'll...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 10 months ago
The standoff between DirecTV and Viacom risks accelerating the move away from television to iPads and smart phones and the expectation of access to content anywhere, anytime. Los Angeles A war of words is raging between Viacom and DirecTV , after the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
At least that's how the big programming companies want you to see it. The reality is that they're equally to blame for these disruptions by forcing fat packages of channels down the throats of distributors such as DirecTV, Dish and Time Warner Cable.
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Chicago Tribune
| 10 months ago
Breaking Bad" fans who subscribe to Dish Network are in luck. Though Dish dropped AMC Networks from its slate after a prolonged war of words, AMC is making the much-anticipated Season 5 premiere of its "Breaking Bad" available to Dish customers...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Viacom pulls online TV shows after DirecTV dispute Cable fans who turn to the Internet to catch shows like 'Jersey Shore' and 'The Daily Show' will only get dark screens, thanks to an ongoing fee dispute. Published: Thursday, July 12, 2012, 3:09 PM...
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The Huffington Post
| 10 months ago
The battle between DirecTV and Viacom has just claimed a big causality: Online streaming episodes of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report." Viacom and DirecTV have been publicly battling over DirecTV's reluctance to pay the fees Viacom demands to...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
Some DirecTV customers upset with the loss of Viacom channels appear to be getting deals from the cable TV provider...Several DirecTV customers are reporting on online forums that they were able to get up to $10 per month knocked off their bills...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
Some DirecTV customers upset with the loss of Viacom channels appear to be getting deals from the cable TV provider...Several DirecTV customers are reporting on online forums that they were able to get up to $10 per month knocked off their bills...
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Gawker
| 10 months ago
C due to a dispute with its parent company, AMC Networks, customers fully expected to be left out of Sunday's highly anticipated premiere of Breaking Bad's fifth season. But unlike Viacom, which retaliated against DirecTV for refusing to pay higher...
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Big News Network
| 10 months ago
Some 20 million American homes lost several popular channels including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central as the two companies failed to reach an agreement over fees.
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Tech Dirt
| 10 months ago
V from the um.-overkill dept So, as the dispute between Viacom and DirecTV over how much money Viacom wants for its channels wore on, the various Viacom channels like MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodian disappeared for DirecTV subscribers . As often...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: July 12, 2012 , 7:34 a.m...Daily Dose: The longer the Viacom-DirecTV fight drags on (see below), the better it may be for some smaller channels. DirecTV has said Hub, the kids channel owned by...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
Fans can no longer watch full episodes of shows like "SpongeBob Squarepants" and "iCarly" or "Jersey Shore" and "The Daily Show," which is sure to further anger the 20 million DirecTV subscribers who continue to find a dark screen when they change...
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Gawker
| 10 months ago
Much-loved Viacom shows such as The Daily Show , The Colbert Report , SpongeBob Squarepants , iCarly , and Jersey Shore can no longer be viewed online due to the company's ongoing dispute with DirecTV over carriage fees . The beef between DirecTV and...
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Hollywood insider
| 10 months ago
Nickelodeon As the dispute between Viacom and DirecTV continued Wednesday, the conglomerate yanked access to some of its more popular programming that was available free on company websites. Fans can no longer watch full episodes of shows like ...
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Starcasm
| 10 months ago
News And after trying to watch the most recent episode of Teen Mom , I received a message that read, We're sorry, this video isn't currently available but will be soon. DirecTV seems to have picked up on the change and doesn't appear to...
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Starpulse
| 10 months ago
Comment Money Talks and BS Walks' is the old adage that instantly comes to mind while learning about this DirecTV/Viacom beef. Seemingly, however, DirecTV is not bs-ing because they recently pulled several popular channels from their satellite...
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News Press
| 10 months ago
Filed Under TV viewers are caught in the middle of a game of chicken between DirecTV and Viacom. Viacom wants an increase in what the satellite TV service pays to broadcast its channels such as BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike and VH1.
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The Mercury News
| 10 months ago
As Mike Sorrentino, of MTV's "Jersey Shore," would put it, DirecTV and Viacom have a situation here. DirecTV dropped more than a dozen cable networks owned by Viacom including MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and Comedy Central on Tuesday night after the...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Viacom is ramping up its war with DirecTV over how much it is paid for shows including "The Daily Show" and "SpongeBob SquarePants." Unfortunately, its latest tactic is causing some collateral damage.
Viacom on Wednesday shut off access...
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EW - PopWatch
| 10 months ago
ET DirecTV-Viacom feud makes children cry (or at least that 'No More Dora' Nickelodeon commercial did) by Mandi Bierly Image Credit: Nickelodeon Search Twitter for responses from DirecTV subscribers currently without their 17 Viacom-owned cable...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 10 months ago
If you are a DirecTV customer who wants your MTV or Nickelodeon and Comedy Central for that matter youre out of luck until the satellite company can resolve a financial dispute with Viacom, those channels owner. El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV...
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The Arlington Advocate
| 10 months ago
Viacom channels went dark at midnight Tuesday for DirecTV subscribers ." Since the seven-year contract between the two companies expired last weekend, they have failed to reach an agreement on new carriage fees for channels like Nickelodeon, MTV and...
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The Huffington Post
| 10 months ago
View All Favorites Recency | Popularity 2 seconds ago ( 1:47 PM) I'm tired of all this bundling...Just give me Comedy Central with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and they can get rid of the rest. tracht47: I'm tired of all this bundling. I don't...
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The New York Observer
| 10 months ago
A Guide to How Your Cable Provider Will Be Screwing You This Summer 12:17pm Time Warner, Dish Network, and DirecTv: the summer of their discontent Several of us watching Jersey Shore reruns last night suffered a rude shock when DirecTv rudely cut...
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Venture Beat
| 10 months ago
DirecTV's satellite television service are most definitely not getting their money's worth as of today that is, unless you just enjoy watching ultra dramatic fights between companies. As of midnight 26 Viacom channels went dark on DirecTV, meaning...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
Millions of kids at home for summer vacation will have to forgo their daily dose of "SpongeBob SquarePants." DirecTV ( DTV , Fortune 500 ) customers lost access to 19 channels owned by Viacom ( VIA ), including Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, at...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: July 11, 2012 , 7:12 a.m...The Skinny: That was a snooze of an All-Star game but it was interesting to see that AMC had bought an ad attacking satellite broadcaster Dish for dropping its...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Twenty-six channel, including Comedy Central, were pulled in the dispute Up to 20 million Americans have lost their fixes of Snooki, South Park, Spongebob Squarepants and the Colbert Report as the DirecTV satellite provider pulled 26 channels owned...
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Baltimore Sun
| 10 months ago
Media companies routinely play chicken in negotiations over such issues as retransmission fees and bundling, terms that mean next to nothing to their customers until one of the companies they subscribe to lets things get out of hand...But it did at...
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Sun Sentinel
| 10 months ago
DirecTV said its customers were left without Nickelodeon , MTV , Comedy Central and 14 other channels on Wednesday after Viacom Inc demanded that its networks be dropped from DirectTV's lineup in a dispute over fees. DirecTV, the largest U.S.
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Gawker
| 10 months ago
Viacom properties including Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, CMT, Logo, and BET, have gone dark for DirecTV's 20 million subscribers after both sides failed to reach an agreement over carriage fees. According to a statement released by DirecTV...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Dish subscribers could have "Mad Men," ''Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead" back on their TVs in a few months, one analyst says.
Vasily Karasyov of Susquehanna Financial Group upgraded AMC Networks Inc. on Wednesday, saying a...
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News Press
| 10 months ago
DirecTV customers were left without Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 14 other channels today, after Viacom dropped its networks from DirecTV at approximately midnight EDT. DirecTV executives reached out to Viacom both yesterday and today with a...
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Hollywood insider
| 10 months ago
DirecTV customers who wanted their MTV (or their BET, or Spike, or VH1) were met with this message: Viacom, the owner of this channel, forced DirecTV to suspend it despite our many requests to keep it on. We are working to bring it back as soon as...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Select a date range Create a custom date range From: To: July 10, 2012 , 9:51 p.m. DirecTV subscribers have lost "SpongeBob SquarePants," "The Daily Show" and "Mob Wives." Unable to reach a deal with Viacom , parent of several popular cable channels,...
