Anyone else pissed off at Direct TV for removing Comedy Central/Viacom

[KaryninMiami]

Am on hold with Direct TV now- this is absurd and I am very upset. Anyone else in the same situation?

[liberal N proud]

1. That rules out Direct for me

We were considering dumping Time Warner for satellite, it's not going to be Direct TV now.

[RedStateLiberal]

2. Yeah but I contacted Viacom

Both may be to blame but from what I've read Viacom's demands sound pretty unreasonable so I let them know if they didn't reach an agreement soon I'd start boycotting their advertisers.

[femmocrat]

3. Yes! What did they tell you?

I have been hoping that it would return by next week... I thought Jon was on vacation this week? I'm getting worried, though!

Please keep us updated, ok? Thanks!

[ejpoeta]

7. they are back next week.

if you are willing to wait until the next day, you can watch on hulu.com.

[arcane1]

14. You can watch them the next day at comedycentral.com as well

[part man all 86]

4. viacom wants a 30% increase, fuck them.

[elfin]

5. wrote both to SOLVE this pronto

Can't survive without Stewart and Colbert and do not wish to go to Hulu plus.

[ejpoeta]

8. don't need hulu plus. can just watch on their website. sucks though

watching on computer. i have hulu plus and watch through my roku, but it is available on their regular website

[KaryninMiami]

6. Held on for 15 minutes- finally got a live person

They are giving me $5 off for 2 months (I demanded compensation) and gave me the link to the form letter on their website which I just sent a letter to demanding that they resolve this immediately. The service is lousy anyway- if my condo didn't have a contract I would cancel and get Uverse. Here when it rains, we loose all channels.

Infuriating. I don't believe this impacts the internet however- so I'm assuming I can watch on line next week but we pay a fortune for DirectTV and frankly, they should take care of their customers and deliver what they pay for. Even if it costs them money- they are making a fortune. Customers- who have a contractual agreement with a list of channels we pay for-- have rights too.

[RedStateLiberal]

9. Actually it does impact the internet

Viacom has pulled all episodes of The Daily Show and Colbert Report from the web. I'm gonna be very pissed if I miss either one next week.

[ejpoeta]

11. oh it has!! oh shit. Now that really pisses me off. I hadn't noticed

because well, they are on vacation.

[ejpoeta]

10. we have been almost 2 years without directv.

for what we watched on it it wasn't worth it. We were on the 2nd tier so I could get MSNBC and i liked hallmark channel and the kids liked some of the kids channels only available on the upper tiers. I know what you mean though about how expensive it is. We were paying almost $100/mo. And our recievers were old and broken... the ones they sent to employees back when my hubby worked for a company that installed directv. Couldn't even get them to give us updated equipment if we stayed. screw em.

[PADemD]

13. Is that all?

I complained and got $5 off for three months.

[madrchsod]

12. nope...they want to much money.

if they get their rate increase i`l try to drop them from the package i have.

[Pat Riot]

15. I blame DTV much more than Viacom.

It's not true Viacom's ratings are down, that is DTV's propaganda, as are the ads saying Viacom want US to pay 30% more. Viacom wants DTV to pay them more, but I don't believe it's 30% and Viacom has not asked for an increase in 6 years. Meanwhile, my DTV bill has increased over 400%!!! in less than 2 years, and I can't pick and choose to pay for only the channels I watch, which is something DTV does but rips Viacom for doing.

I was going to switch anyway.