Dish Network is no longer carrying WFMJ-TV, Youngstown, Ohio. The...
Dish Network is no longer carrying WFMJ-TV, Youngstown, Ohio. The DBS provider hasn’t reached a retransmission consent deal with the NBC affiliate and the station was dropped Friday, Dish said. WFMJ “is insisting on an outrageous rate increase of more…
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than 250 percent.” The network is “taking our customers hostage in these negotiations,” Dish said. WFMJ said it negotiated with Dish for several months and “agreed to extend the old agreement several times.” The station “made a last-ditch effort to avoid a service interruption … [Friday] morning by substantially revising our offer in Dish’s favor,” it said in a press release. The WFMJ-owned CW affiliate, WBCB, also was blacked out, it said. Dish didn’t make a counterproposal and let the old agreement expire, WFMJ said: The station will continue “to try to persuade Dish Network to carry WFMJ and WBCB, but we cannot predict if or when Dish will restore WFMJ."