NAB Calls Dish's Tribune Lawsuit 'Dishtraction'
With its lawsuit against Tribune Broadcasting for bashing it in advertisements (see 1606210070), Dish Network "has really outdone itself this time," said NAB Associate General Counsel Patrick McFadden in a blog post Friday. NAB calls Dish "the common denominator" in…
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close to 75 percent of all blackouts stemming from retransmission consent loggerheads at the same time the company actively has been lobbying for the FCC to change its good-faith negotiating rules. "It’s not at all uncommon for us to find ourselves marveling at DISH’s signature cocktail of chutzpah and hypocrisy," NAB said. It called Dish's complaint "disingenuous" because the company advertises to try to get other pay-TV providers' customers to switch. Calling the suit "a dishtraction" from the fact the company tries to pay below-market rates for programming, NAB said Dish "might consider engineering fewer service dishruptions that deprive customers of their desired programming." Dish didn't comment Friday.