Hearst Again Points at Dish in Retrans Loggerheads
Dish Network likely will "employ any scheme" it can to put off meaningful negotiations with Hearst, the broadcaster said in a letter to customers posted Monday on the website of WBAL-TV Baltimore and other stations. Dish and Hearst blamed each…
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other for the March blackout resulting from a retransmission consent renewal impasse (see 1703030011 and 1703090021). Hearst in its letter called Dish suggestions of the broadcaster's intransigence "untrue" and said it's the satellite company that hasn't budged on its "completely off-market terms in any meaningful way." Dish didn't comment Tuesday.