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DirecTV filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission on Saturday night accusing Disney of negotiating in bad faith. Disney channels, including ESPN and ABC-owned stations in nine ...
DirecTV filed a complaint Saturday with the Federal Communications Commission alleging Disney did not negotiate in good faith as the two sides have failed to reach a distribution deal.
Unhappy satellite TV subscribers -- most customers of DirecTV and Dish Network -- have been complaining by the thousands to the Better Business Bureau. More than 53,000 satellite customers have ...
The complaint states: “Along with these anticompetitive demands, Disney has also insisted that DirecTV agree to a ‘clean slate’ provision and a covenant not to sue, both of which are intended to prevent DirecTV from taking legal action regarding Disney’s anticompetitive demands, which would include filing good faith complaints at the ...
Also unlike DVB, all DSS receivers are proprietary DirecTV reception units. DirecTV is now using a modified version of DVB-S2, the latest version of the DVB-S protocol, for HDTV services off the SPACEWAY-1, SPACEWAY-2, DirecTV-10 and DirecTV-11 [2] satellites; however, huge numbers of DSS encoded channels still remain. The ACM modulation scheme ...
In August 2008, The Boston Globe reported that DirecTV received 20,000 complaints in less than three years to the Better Business Bureau on DirecTV slipping in cancellation fees. [132] In August 2010, the BBB reported that it had received 39,000 complaints against DirecTV in the previous three years, and the BBB gave it an F (failing) grade.
Comcast claims to have more HD choices than DirecTV by including Comcast's on-demand and pay-per-view assets. Each HD on-demand program is counted as a so-called HD "choice" by Comcast. [55] On August 8, 2016, a Comcast employee confirmed that Comcast was downgrading native 1080i channels to the 720p60 format. [56]
DirecTV’s Thun directly cited Disney’s strategic shift to direct-to-consumer platforms as a factor in the negotiations. “Consumer frustration is at an all-time high as Disney shifts its best ...