U

2 Messages

Sunday, September 10th, 2023 4:21 AM

Closed

Fox KAYU Spokane

It’s extremely frustrating to pay lots of $$$ for a cable service and not have access stations. We are avid, sports, and football fans, and for this contract to expire in the fall is extremely inconvenient. We are seriously considering ending our agreement with Xfinity if this is not resolved in a reasonable time frame.

This conversation has been merged. Please refer the main conversation:

Imagicomm Communications Programming Agreement Reached

Visitor

 • 

7 Messages

1 year ago

Xfinity, can you please give us an update!!! 

Problem Solver

 • 

794 Messages

@user_94db39​ You're new to this sort of thing, aren't you? Neither side will mention anything concerning how negotiations are going, probably out of fear of giving away information they don't want the other side to have. Ask anybody who remembers the years - and I do mean years - of silence from both Comcast and Disney concerning getting Xfinity to include ACC Network.

Besides, Comcast's response would probably be something like, "We made what we consider to be a reasonable offer, but the station's owners refuse to listen." The station's owners would probably say the same thing. Yes, pretty much like what both sides in the recent writers' strike were saying.

Visitor

 • 

7 Messages

1 year ago

Is this still being negotiated? Is there any end to this insight? 

2 Messages

1 year ago

Inexcusable! my bundled-bill with Comcast is over $320 a month. And I can't watch the seahawks with my spouse and my grandkids?  Not to mention local news & nostalgia programs? Time to call up dish network. 

7 Messages

Not sure Dish would be any better. In Jan/Feb of 2020 a friend of mine couldn’t watch the Super Bowl because Dish and Fox year were battling it out. Don’t know how long negotiations lasted but they couldn’t have picked a worse time. 
I went and bought a relatively inexpensive open air antenna a few weeks ago for emergencies like this. They will pick up all the major networks (and much more like MeTV and Antenna TV 👍).

Visitor

 • 

3 Messages

1 year ago

Xfinity raise our price, fox is not active and force us to pay for insp channel. I am looking at their competitors because they are getting too expensive. I got the quad package. I have been with Xfinity since 2006. Loyalty doesn't mean a thing. 

3 Messages

1 year ago

This is ridiculous! Negotiate a deal and get Spokane Fox back on the air. We are missing way too many sporting events and the World Series is right around the corner.

I also see your agreement with Root Sports NW expires this month. If we also lose this channel from our package, we’ll be back in the market soon.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled KAYU Fox

2 Messages

1 year ago

I agree.  Our comast agreement includes specific channels, and they are not fulfilling that obligation.  I feel a discount is warranted on our bill.  This is very frustrating.

New Poster

 • 

7 Messages

1 year ago

KAYU has been radio silent on this stalemate for about three weeks now. It makes me suspect they’re not negotiating in good faith.

I’m not a fan of Comcast/Xfinity, especially when it’s time to call customer service or pay my bill, but I have to believe this is all on KAYU’s end. They’ve pulled this with other pay TV providers in the past; this is just the first time it’s happened with Xfinity. The other local stations don’t have problems like this, but the one bargain basement operation in our market, which is too cheap to produce its own newscasts (theirs are outsourced from KHQ) does. 

(edited)

Problem Solver

 • 

794 Messages

I have never seen either side in one of these standoffs (and it's not just Comcast) mention anything about "progress" until the settlement has been made

2 Messages

1 year ago

OMG just cannot believe it.  I look so forward to college football and the NFL games on FOX.  Its such a let down I cannot even print what I am thinking!!!! Stupid and have us by a barrel!!!

2 Messages

1 year ago

Not only are you guys not providing a channel that should be free you have also dropped ROOT Sports another huge local sports broadcaster. You guys are horrible. You do not service your customers at all and have now effectively removed most of the local sports broadcasting stations. In order to get ROOT back I have to upgrade to the ultimate package, that is extortion. I feel there may be a class action lawsuit in the making here against Xfinity for holding all local sports hostage by not coming to terms with Fox and by moving ROOT to the most expensive package. You sicken me!  In this current economy when people are just struggling to get by and buy their groceries you take one of the few pleasurable outlets away from people that was normally on a cheaper package and move it to the most expensive package. You need to do the right thing and restore ROOT and negotiate with Fox and get people back to being able to watch their favorite teams play. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves! 

Visitor

 • 

2 Messages

1 year ago

Guess they came to an agreement cause now i get kayu & antenna tv (fox affiliate) and i have comcast

forum icon

New to the Community?

Start Here