General Discussion

Rejoice if you're a Direct TV user and miss all 20 or so of those Viacom owned channels. They're back! Link.

It's been just a few days short of 2 weeks since Viacom and Direct TV couldn't come to a deal over a price increase Viacom was seeking for it's channels. A price increase of about $1 billion. The two media giants then went to war with Direct TV running self aggrandizing "ads" in place of Viacom channels and Viacom removing Daily Show and Colbert Report from streaming to everyone on the internet just to spite Direct TV.

But now that the children have stopped squabbling, you the paying customer get your full service back.

No clue on the final dollar amount earned or when the channels will surface again. If you're a Direct TV customer and have them back or don't feel free to tell us!

dang I was really hoping to see these two mega corps go at it for a little longer but I still bet the cash payout was huge

@TheFaithfullyDeparted said:

dang I was really hoping to see these two mega corps go at it for a little longer but I still bet the cash payout was huge

Right? I love seeing corporations fight!

Yeah, they came back on air Saturday morning (Eastern). I had to reprogram them back into my selective channels list. This same type of squabble happened earlier this year with "Superstation" WGN and DirectTV. It blew over in less than a week and things were back to normal. The only one that never returned in the few years I've had DTV is Comcast's 14-to-24 demographically focused, G4TV. It left and it's still gone. During the Viacom outage, DTV turned "Encore" and all it's subchannels on to customers who normally don't have it as part of their package and Baby First TV which is normally an a-la carte channel. They also added Disney Jr and upped Turner Classic Movies to HD.

Yet Dish Network as I am reminded on every commercial break for Breaking Bad is without AMC and IFC.

This never affected me, but I will miss the commercials that were attacking dish.