Stations owned by Sinclair are scheduled to be dropped from the...
Stations owned by Sinclair are scheduled to be dropped from the Dish Network programming lineup in the early morning hours on Thursday, after which a retransmission consent agreement between Sinclair and Dish is scheduled to expire. Dish carries about 70…
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Sinclair-owned stations, including affiliates of CBS, ABC and Fox, in more than 40 markets, Sinclair said Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bnkpzs). The prices that Sinclair requested “are substantially lower than the amounts Dish is paying for other far less popular channels it carries as a result of Dish’s flawed economic model that on a relative basis compensates channels with little to no audience share more than the broadcast channels,” it said. Dish said it negotiated with the broadcaster for months, “but Sinclair is insisting on a rate increase that would force Dish to pay more for those ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC channels than Dish pays to any other broadcaster” (http://xrl.us/bnkp2a). Sinclair suggested to its viewers they can turn to services like DirecTV, Verizon’s FiOS or AT&T’s U-Verse, to keep seeing the TV stations on subscription-video providers.