The Fox station in Des Moines and CBS station in Cedar Rapids are gonna be pulled from cable tonight unless someone steps in....which means we need an antenna to watch the playoff games....or a dish.

 

This sucks.

that's what you get for being from Iowa, heads.

I'm just going to go to this one sports bar (Junior's???) that has satelitte. I went there for a Monday night game and they had CSN on as well.

Edited January 5, 200719 yr by santo=dorf

The Fox station in Des Moines and CBS station in Cedar Rapids are gonna be pulled from cable tonight unless someone steps in....which means we need an antenna to watch the playoff games....or a dish.

 

This sucks.

 

 

Iowa gets cable?

 

Why don't you just weave together some corn stalks and silk and hook one endup to the rooster-shaped weather vane on top of your grain silo and the other end to your old Zenith "Porthole" television? That should work just fine.

There are people in Iowa?

The Fox station in Des Moines and CBS station in Cedar Rapids are gonna be pulled from cable tonight unless someone steps in....which means we need an antenna to watch the playoff games....or a dish.

 

This sucks.

Bahahahahahahaha! Ha! HAHahahahhahahahha! Hahahahahah! Ha! HA HA!

 

Looks like you are gonna have to drive to the local (local=hour drive) Walmart to pick up an antenna for your tv.

Bahahahahahahaha! Ha! HAHahahahhahahahha! Hahahahahah! Ha! HA HA!

 

Looks like you are gonna have to drive to the local (local=hour drive) Walmart to pick up an antenna for your tv.

 

The cable company is handing them out for free, but it looks like a number of stations will be pulled off of Mediacom cable tonight in Illinois and Missouri too.

 

Yeah, it'll be hilarious to any Bears fans in Des Moines that want to watch their playoff game. This also means Hawkeye games won't be on cable in most of the state.

explain the dispute.

 

I don't understand. Cable has decided to stop carrying local affiliates?

Yes.

 

Mediacom cable and Sinclair Broadcasting (owner of KDSM Fox in Des Mones and KGAN CBS in Cedar Rapids, as well as like 20 other stations nationally) have not agreed on rates or whatever to carry the station, so Sinclair is ordering their stations pulled from Mediacom cable in these markets. Some cities far away enough from the towers can get national feeds or feeds from neighboring markets, but here, we're SOL. We've got rabbit ears to watch the Colts game tomorrow. When I head back to Ames, I won't be able to watch the NFC playoffs.

And we've officially lost CBS.

Well at least you get to see the Colts game tomorrow, unless you lose NBC too.

So people in Eastern Iowa can't get the Super Bowl on Mediacom Cable.....

Hmmm.. Iowans have extra pitchforks I bet.

 

at least I'm not affected by this since I don't get CBS from Cedar Rapids or Des Moines.

This IS happening in other states too.....such as Illinois, Missourah, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Florida, etc.

I live 9 miles from our local affiliates, so meh.

 

Heads, you have work on dpbl to do.

It's been said that Sinclair has had similar disputes with other major cable companies before, and that they are asking for a good deal more than market value. Mediacom claims they have offered the same deal to Sinclair as Sinclair has signed with another cable provider, consequently making Sinclair their highest paid channels. Mediacom has said that the FOX stations have done nothing to warrant such a ludicrous deal, such as popular local programming. It will likely be resolved eventually, but Sinclair Broadcasting is trying to bully Mediacom as it has tried others.

 

this thread is hilarious

 

Heads, you have work on dpbl to do.

 

 

how's KC doing!?

 

this thread is hilarious

how's KC doing!?

 

Not as good as when you had them. (Sorry wite)

 

We have Det and Arz open if you want to come back.

Time to get a dish! I love my satellite and DVR!