Dish Network, Fox Dispute Costs Viewers Access to Channels
September 26 2019 - 4:46PM
Dow Jones News
By Micah Maidenberg
Dish Network Corp. and Fox Corp. are battling over a new
contract, and the dispute has resulted in consumers losing access
to a number of cable channels and local stations carried by the
satellite-television operator.
Dish has been pushing against rate increases from entertainment
programmers, at a time when many consumers are shifting to
streaming services and giving up their pay-TV packages.
The two companies disagree over what caused the loss of
access.
Dish said in a statement that Fox blocked customers of its
network and its Sling TV streaming service from accessing local Fox
channels in 17 markets, as well as cable channels such as FS1, Big
10 Network and Fox Soccer Plus.
"Fox's actions are profoundly anti-consumer," said Andy LeCuyer,
senior vice president of programming at Dish.
Dish and Sling dropped the programming as a negotiating tactic,
according to a Fox spokeswoman.
"Dish/Sling elected to drop Fox networks in an effort to coerce
us to agree to outrageous demands," she said.
Fox Corp. and Wall Street Journal parent News Corp share common
ownership.
Write to Micah Maidenberg at micah.maidenberg@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 26, 2019 16:31 ET (20:31 GMT)
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