Cox Archives - Awful Announcing

AT&T

Dozens of Cox-owned stations off AT&T/DirecTV in carriage dispute, including four CBS affiliates ahead of Super Bowl LV

Those with AT&T or DirecTV packages in Seattle, Dayton, Eureka and Yuma may need to find alternate ways to watch the Super Bowl Sunday.

AT&T

Potential AT&T/DirecTV carriage dispute with Cox Media Group stations could have Super Bowl implications in Seattle and Dayton

This affects ABC, Fox, NBC and CBS stations, but the CBS stations in Seattle and Dayton may be particularly important for the Super Bowl.

ESPN

ACC Network strikes a carriage deal with Cox, further boosting its subscriber numbers

This deal means ACC Network could reach as many as 52 million subscribers altogether now.

NFL

Veteran Cox employee Frank Gonzalez was caught for 2009 Comcast Tucson Super Bowl porn hack thanks to a 2008 login

The hack itself left nothing directly leading back to Gonzalez, but after months of investigation, he was tied to an earlier, similar system access attempt.

CBS

Verizon and Disney strike carriage agreement, keeping ESPN and ABC stations on Fios, but there’s a Cox-Nexstar blackout looming (UPDATED)

While the Verizon-Disney dispute has been resolved, the Cox-Nexstar one is still ongoing, and has a midnight deadline.

Local Networks

Cox-KOCO deal means Oklahoma-Ohio State football game will be aired in Oklahoma City [updated]

A dispute between Cox and the local ABC affiliate was resolved ahead of Saturday's game.

2016

Time Warner Cable admits failure in its battle over SportsNet LA

After two new offers were spurned by Cox Communications and DirecTV over Dodgers-central channel SportsNet LA, operator Time...