Dish Network’s complaint against Media General is the...
Dish Network’s complaint against Media General is the latest instance “of Dish’s irresponsible conduct during its negotiations with Media General,” said the broadcaster in a response to the complaint. Dish filed the complaint last month, saying the broadcaster didn’t negotiate…
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in good faith for a renewal of its retransmission consent agreement (CD Oct 21 p7). When the parties convened a last-ditch conference call “to try to reach a deal before Media General’s stations went dark, Dish hung up on Media General’s negotiators in a fit of pique following several minutes of their negotiators yelling accusations and generally refusing to allow Media General’s negotiators to speak,” Media General said in an opposition in docket 13-246 (http://bit.ly/17zfYIe). The broadcaster asked the commission to dismiss the Dish complaint and consider sanctions “for Dish’s abuse of the commission’s processes and for its misrepresentations to and lack of candor before the commission.” The companies are engaged in a retrans battle, which resulted in a blackout of Media General programming for Dish subscribers (CD Oct 3 p13).