Content agreement information

Update (6/22): Good News! Verizon and Deltavision are extending contract negotiations through July 30, 2026. There will be no changes to your channel line-up. Check back here for updates.


At Fios TV, we are committed to providing you with the best in news, entertainment, and sports. As part of this, we periodically negotiate agreements with media companies to ensure we can continue to offer their programming to you at a reasonable rate.

Our contract with Deltavision Media, LLC (“Deltavision”) expired on June 22, 2026. Deltavision owns and operates WSYT in Syracuse, NY (FOX, MyNetwork, COZI TV, Dabl channels).

We haven’t reached a new agreement with Deltavision, so we temporarily lack the rights to broadcast their channels. We share your frustration. We are working hard to reach a fair deal, but Deltavision is demanding extreme price increases that would unreasonably raise your bill.

While we remain committed to reaching a fair deal and bringing these channels back to you, we were unable to agree to their terms without a disruption.

For our impacted residential customers in Syracuse, here are some other ways you can keep watching:

• FOX content, including FIFA World Cup matches, is available to stream on FOX One. We’re offering a one-time bill credit of $19.99 to cover the cost of the first month’s subscription.* Call Verizon customer service at 1-800-837-4966 to request your credit. You can sign up for FOX One directly through FOX’s website.
• In addition to FOX One, you can also watch most FIFA World Cup matches in Spanish on your local Telemundo (channel 23).

We appreciate your patience and support as we continue to negotiate reasonable pricing on your behalf, and hope Deltavision will restore its channels to our lineup soon.

*Third-Party services may require a separate, paid subscription or other charges.

Each year, your Verizon Fios TV team works with content owners and programmers to continue delivering the best programming on Fios TV with access to over 690 channels of content in our daily line-ups. The agreements we negotiate with these companies enhance your viewing experience, with everything from the nightly lineup to our on-demand library with over 170,000 titles, live streaming, services for vision-impaired customers and the Fios TV app so you can watch around or outside your home.

All cable and satellite TV providers enter into agreements with programmers for the right to carry their content. These contracts can vary in length, but typically run for a number of years. When contracts expire, it’s not unusual for programmers to try to renegotiate their agreements at a higher price, and we understand that. Sometimes we can negotiate other facets of an agreement to help hold the increases to a minimum, but that is becoming increasingly difficult. Rest assured that we will not agree to rate increases that are exorbitant and unfair to our customers or inconsistent with the rest of the industry.

Verizon works hard on behalf of our Fios TV customers to deliver the best TV service; with the programming you have come to expect at a reasonable price. We don’t want to increase customers’ rates due to unfair price increases from programming partners, and we’ll work tirelessly to ensure that does not happen.

If you are interested in learning more about concerns associated with increasing programming costs as well as information regarding recent disputes, you can find a great deal of information at the American TV Alliance’s website.