Dish, Fox Accuse One Another in 17-Market Blackout
Dish Network and Fox blame each other for a blackout of local channels in 17 markets in 23 states and the District of Columbia. Fox emailed Thursday that Dish is dropping programming as negotiating tactic "to coerce us to agree…
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to outrageous demands." Dish said Fox demanded a double-digit percentage rate increase for carriage of local channels and to bundle the local channels with cable networks. Along with the local channels, Dish said cable networks FS1, FS2, Big 10 Network, Fox Soccer Plus and Fox Deportes had gone dark.