Yes, it's certain areas where NBC is owned by a particular company that's in dispute with directv. The really annoying thing is that these stupid corporations should have extensions on these disputes. Nobody is benefitting when a channel is out. It's just greed is all. For whatever reason directv seems to have these more than anyone. I'm a directv customer myself and dealt with not having cbs or ABC all last summer. It was super annoying and my antenna wouldn't pick them up locally