Deadline says:
The carriage dispute between DirecTV and the Fox cable networks has reached the FCC. DirecTV’s EVP Derek Chang today sent a letter to the commission complaining about the message in some of Fox’s recent ads urging DirecTV customers to switch to another satellite/cable provider as they may lose their local Fox station, too. “FOX is using misleading advertising informing DIRECTV customers that ‘soon, in some markets, you may lose your local FOX station,’ even though our retransmission consent agreement does not expire for over two months,” the letter said. The current extension to DirecTV and Fox cable networks’ carriage agreement expires on Monday, and DirecTV last week said that it plans to pull the networks if no deal is reached. The carriage deal for the Fox stations that carry the Fox broadcasting network expires on Dec. 31.
One of the only things holding Fox back from bringing back the cult-classic "Firefly" is trying to figure out how to 'reinvent it for today'.
These people will never learn until we really hurt their pockets and in some case they dont even seem to care to lose money.
Let me start this off by saying that this definitely is not happening. But instead that you, dear reader, should treat this post as a “What if…?” scenario.
The effects of the Disney-Fox merger will have consequences that'll be visible in the immediate future. Here's the immediate effects of the historic merger.
