Carriage dispute

A carriage dispute is when the cable providers and the network's companies don't have an agreement, what causes the cable/satellite providers to pull their channels and their video on demand off their systems.

Time Warner Cable/Charter Spectrum vs. Viacom
On December of 2008, Viacom started suing Time Warner Cable if they can't reach the agreement on December 31st, 2008 and pull their channels off of Time Warner Cable local system. The case ended on January 3rd 2009, and Viacom returned to Time Warner Cable.

In October 2017, Charter Spectrum (the successor to TWC) threatened to drop Viacom's channels again if they couldn't reach an agreement. However, an agreement was reached a few days later, and the Viacom channels returned to Spectrum.

Time Warner Cable vs. News Corporation
In December of 2009, Time Warner Cable was sued by News Corporation if they can't reach an agreement, they will remove their networks (including Fox).

U-Verse/DirecTV vs. Viacom
In July of 2012, AT&T's U-Verse (Cable provider) and DirecTV (Satellite provider) dropped the Viacom channels in a fight against Viacom. They reached an agreement by the end of July 2012.

On March 19, 2019, AT&T threatened to drop the Viacom channels from DirecTV and U-Verse again in another fight against Viacom. However, an agreement was finally reached on March 24, 2019, and the Viacom channels returned to DirecTV again.

Turner vs. Dish Network
In November of 2014, Dish had a fight against Turner. That caused Dish Network remove the Turner networks (such as TBS, Cartoon Network, HBO, TCM, CNN, Cinemax, HLN, and so on....).

Suddenlink vs. Viacom
The most infamous example of a carriage dispute's effects lasting for a long time; as in 2014, Suddenlink got into a huge fight against Viacom, which caused Suddenlink to remove the Viacom channels. Not only did they not reach an agreement until 3 years later, but Suddenlink added new channels to fill in the slots that were formerly held by the Viacom channels.

Disney vs. U-Verse/DirecTV
In January of 2017, AT&T had a fight against Disney, which caused AT&T's U-Verse/DirecTV to remove the Disney owned networks (such as Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, ESPN, and more, including ABC O&O affiliates)

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