Comments on: Century, Cantonment Cable Customers Could Lose WEAR 3 In 10 Days

By: June

June — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:35:44 +0000

Such a cliche argument. Other than the silly Christmas parade that WKRG sponsors for some reason, name one story Ch3 has missed that the “Mobile” stations have covered.

By: Bryan Bethea

Bryan Bethea — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:31:38 +0000

This all boils down to greed on the part of Sinclair. These disputes are very commonplace with that company and happen all across the country with every major cable provider including Comcast, Cox, and Time Warner Cable. Customers of satellite providers should not feel safe either. Sinclair routinely has these disputes with DirecTV and Dish Network as well. Sinclair is synonymous with greed. Until 1992 the cable companies did not have to pay the local station owners for including their signals in the cable lineup. After all, since most people either have cable or satellite, wouldn’t the local station WANT to have their channel included in the lineup? But, since 1992 the local station owners have been holding viewers hostage in this annual ritual of demanding higher and higher fees from the cable providers. Naturally those fees get passed right along to customers. If you want to know why your cable rates seem to go up all the time, this would be it!

By: ART

ART — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:44:11 +0000

THAT’S WHY COX CABLE NEEDS TO MOVE ON IN

By: Mike j.

Mike j. — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:39:44 +0000

Ch3 should be paying bright.house to air their racist newscast ! Cop hits a black punk in Seattle Wa.,its breaking news on ch3.Did 3 ever say ’sorry’to Jay. Fl?i know the places in town to avoid ,for the high crime areas..only because i havea scanner:Hear That Morgan !?High crime P’cola=parents,ecso(dave),PNJ,CH-3! IF U DONT KNOW ITS BROKE,U CANT FIX IT!!need p’cola news?=N.Esc.com,10/5/15..radio shack1000ch.trunk:tracker scanner!!!Merry Christmas Everyone!;MikeJ(col.Kurts)

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:39:51 +0000

The cable companies keep lowering the service and raising the rates. Next rate increase I go to an antanae! And IF I were to want to watch channel 3 I can just use my emergency antanae.

By: eab

eab — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:30:12 +0000

Really…..who cares about any of this? Simply give the hours you would have spent sitting in front of Channel 3 to reading or listening to music or working around the house.

I quit satellite television 3 years ago because I was tired of the constant fee increases. And I was only paying $40.00 a month. I know people who pay in the $100.00 range! A hundred dollars to watch television! Folks, you don’t have to have pay TV. It ain’t electricity, it ain’t gas and it ain’t water. We don’t miss it at my house.

If everyone would just stop paying, these knuckleheads would lower their prices and increase their services. As long as we keep bellying up to the trough, these companies will keep feeding us slop, and at their prices.

Drop the cable, drop the satellite TV, and do it today. Quit crawling to them and let them come to us for a change.

By: Ifish4

Ifish4 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:40:48 +0000

I believe if you check you will see that it’s not so much the cable companies doing this as it is Sinclair Broadcast Group. It hasn’t been that long ago that they were making announcements about Mediacom customers losing channel 3. How often do you see the other channels in this situation, not very often that I remember. As for quality, I’ve always had better quality with cable than I have with satellite service, I’ve never had a problem with the picture due to heavy rain with cable, but I can’t say that with the satellite systems, not only mine but I’ve also been at friends house that had satellite service during a heavy rain when the picture would fade. I’ll stay with Brighthouse, and if channel 3 is no longer available, then that’s OK, but I wonder if channel 3 is going to give local businesses a cut for not having as large a market without Brighthouse.

By: Who Cares

Who Cares — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:35:05 +0000

Not a big loss. WEAR is the worst station in the area…especially their newscasts. WKRG in Mobile has much better coverage and programming.

By: Grateful Whitfield

Grateful Whitfield — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:35:42 +0000

Why doesn’t the Cable companies and WEAR get along better than this and why does the Cable companies put their customers thru this every year now? It seems silly now they both are still doing the same crap. Guess all you cable folks need to get Direct TV and forget cable!! You get better service and channel reception, it’s not on the blink like cable is when you get a storm.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:13:42 +0000

I keep waiting for them to name”one of my favorite”showys that I’m going to miss.
To Ch.3 advertisers,if I watch over the “air” i will not patronize those who advertise on Ch.3 tell the T.V. Ch. To get real.