NBCU Denies Dish Contractual Breach Allegation
NBCUniversal's 2013 retransmission and affiliation contractual agreements with Dish Network don't contain any prohibition of screen crawls warning that NBC programming might soon be dropped from Dish's lineup, NBCU said in a filing (in Pacer) Friday in U.S. District Court…
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in Rockford, Illinois, in response to Dish's breach of contract suit filed in March (see 1603150053). In its 16-page reply, NBCU denied all allegations of contractual breach and repeatedly referred the court to the twin agreements. Dish didn't comment Tuesday.