Terrier Asks Court to Toss Dish's Retrans Suit
Dish Network signed two retransmission consent agreements for two sets of TV stations and is now complaining it's being held to the terms of those deals, Terrier Media Buyer told the U.S. District Court in Chicago Thursday in a motion…
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to dismiss (docket 20-cv-00570, in Pacer) Dish's contractual dispute. It said Dish acknowledged Terrier bought the two station groups with the idea that one of the retrans agreements would supersede the other, but the MVPD preferred that now-gone agreement's terms. It said Dish's complaint makes sense only if the station groups were bought in a different order than what happened and what the FCC approved. Dish didn't comment. The court dropped Cox, one of the previous station group owners, from the litigation this week (see 2009080002).