It's Dec 7 and Verizon just notified us via email that Bloomberg TV (ch 604) would be dropped. on Dec 8!
I like this station and it is not the same as their mobile offerings. I am disturbed that Verizon is reducing my service
This is very unfortunate. Please do what it take to get Bloomberg TV back. Deal with the media integration issues in a mature manner rather than having a Verizon temper tantrum, and pulling the plug on your customers. This was a high value channel. Verizon you are wrong on this one.
Verizon does what it want to do. No concern for customers loyalty. Removed bloomburg for profit concern. Time has come to cut cord and move to online
Xfinity otherwise known as Comcast offers Bloombergs and The Weather Channel as content on three of their packages and for about the same exact price as Verizon.
I just checked it out.
Well I do not have a choice.
I like Bloombergs Business as an indicator in the night market.
Sorry Verizon, I have to walk away at the end of the year and take Comcast.
Same or similar Price and Verizon tells you your bundle is discounted.
Total Nonsense.
First the weather channel goes, then Univision goes, now Bloomberg, then what? I watched all of these channels. I just renewed and lost Bloomberg. No I’m seeing if Cablevision will take me and I can cancel my renewal. I’m tired of Verizon smug message that I can get free Bloomberg from the Internet. Stupid answer. I paid for Fios because I want the convenience of channel bundles. Plus, I replace all of Fios with TiVo or amazon or many services, why would Fios admit their strategy is dying as the majority of content I get from Fios is available on the Internet. I want to see tv saving when you lower your costs and cut content I like but all I get are weakening channel bundle, higher bills and smug answers from poor negotiators.
So Verizon is dropping Bloomberg because they don't want to pay for content they claim Bloomberg provides for free using other media.
Makes sense in the post fact world we now live in.
So does this mean Verizon will now make the basic tier of service free?
That is the tier that is only the local broadcast stations.
Those are the ones their content providers put out for free over there air.
I don't think so.
PS does it also mean Verizon will lower Everyone's rates lower because of yet another dropped station.. Again, I don't think so!
Too bad I just found out about this. Should have stayed with Optimum. BAD decision by Verizon FIOS as usual. But hey, no reduction in your bill. #Crooked
In this case, there were no cost savings.
Verizon notice stated that Blomberg wanted to start charging for content they are offering to Internet for free.
Don't know if they are requiring same for other providers at this time or if it was just Verizon's time as their contract was up. Time will tell.
This is also a deal breaker for us. Many of the channels that my husband watches have been dropped and Bloomberg leaving is the icing on the cake. We pay a crazy amount of $ and Fios doesn't want to offer lower pricing to it's existing customers.
We received no notice of the channel being dropped and no one at Verizon cares what channels I want or that as an existing customer I want a fair price.
Leaving as soon as I can line up Comcast, will pay the early termination fee.
Why would they do this? I'm a stock trader and investor and I need Bloomberg. I'll have to switch to Cox or Comcast-I have no choice. Hey Verizon, I don't want to pour a cup of coffee and watch Bloomberg on my phone-that's **bleep**. That's why I pay an outrageous amount to have cable. Guess it will be Cox cable. Nice knowing you. May as well switch my Verizonn wireless to AT&T while I'm at it.
Now both channels are gone. Me next Bye, Bye FIOS. Hello Comcast. Hopefully my internet will be faster with Comcast! FIOS sucks.
This has seriously got me thinking of dropping Fios TV and Phone. I think I can do better with ROKU or something similar where I can choose the channels I want. Probably save some dollars.
I was reading about the many other net vendors that offer Bloomberg TV with the content streaming below we all so desperately need to make our investment decisions.
It is ashame Verizon dropped Bloomberg TV just in time for Christmas.
Well Have a happy NEW Year with your new providers.
Dropping a popular channel is not making your subscribers happy, hope you rethink this decision.
First they dropped the weather channel and now dropping Bloomberg may be the straw that breaks it for me. Bloomberg was one of the *only* non-biased news outlets. Instead there's One America News - give me a break. If there is any doubt how it will be when the politicians kil Net Neutrality - this is all the evidence you need. I'll have to look on the Pennsylvania Utility Commition website to see where I can file a complaint. For those who can get Comcast, Bloomberg is channel 814 - just sayin.
Wondering if legally to cancel Verizon for breach on contract by dropping Bloomberg since it was part of the package. Call FCC maybe.
If you mean your contract with Verizon, no.
The terms of service explicitly state that Verizon can add and drop channels as they desire during the life of the contract.
There are no guarantees for specific channels.
And this is fairly common amongst all providers.
If you think about it, it needs to be that way. Unless they can sync everyones contract dates up, they could never remove a channel or would have to remove it from contracts and then wait up to 2 years for the last people that still had that channel in their contract.
And the same holds true for moving channels in and out of packages.
Truly disappointing. This is one of the highest quality and least biased news productions avaialable anywhere in our country and FIOS "brilliantly" dropped it. I have been contemplating cutting the cord and this may make the decision easier.
I am very disappointed by Verizon dropping Bloomberg. I recently switched from Cox to Verizon because Cox quit offering Bloomberg. Are there any cable tv services which do offer Bloomberg in DC area? I may have to switch to one of them. I wish Verizon would reconsider its decision.
@markwil wrote:
I am very disappointed by Verizon dropping Bloomberg. I recently switched from Cox to Verizon because Cox quit offering Bloomberg. Are there any cable tv services which do offer Bloomberg in DC area? I may have to switch to one of them. I wish Verizon would reconsider its decision.
Check their website.
Plus you can stream their channel for free.
PLEASE READ:
For anyone suggesting that Bloomberg viewers just watch the internet streaming content... The TV broadcast and the internet webcast ARE NOT the same.
The difference between the two are obvious and vast. The fact that Verizon stated that they are the same is an absolute lie. Watch both versions, if possible, before making comments.
Start a new topic or ask questions in the open forum.
