DirecTv Vs Viacom

From DirecTv:
"Viacom Lockout"

On July 9, 2012, it was publicly announced that DirecTV may black out any and all Viacom-owned networks if a deal isn't reached by July 10, 2012 at midnight. This includes Palladia, Centric, Tr3s, CMT, Logo, Nicktoons, VH1 Classic, TeenNick, Nick Jr., Nick@Nite, Spike, BET, VH1, TV Land, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV. Viacom claims that DirecTV dropped 26 Viacom channels. ^] DirecTV claims that Viacom wants 30% ($1 billion) more than what their customers are paying for. Viacom claimed "DirecTV is throwing around some big numbers that are misleading…Viacom is asking DirecTV for an increase of a couple of pennies per day per subscriber. That's far less than DirecTV pays other programmers with fewer viewers than Viacom."^[ On July 10, 2012 11:45 PM Eastern time, DirecTV receivers displayed what customers were going to expect during the day of the warning that Viacom was going to take down select channels. Channels selected were taken down and a screen displaying technical difficulties was put up. The message stated that "Viacom, the owner of the channel forced DirecTV to suspend it, despite our many requests to keep it on.

^ This just shows that companies in general do not care about their customers. I have DirecTv and now don't get these channels. Most of these I don't care for anyways, but a few I do. Regardless whether I watch them or not I should have the option of receiving them or not. ^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirecTV