Dish, Tegna Blame One Another for Looming Blackout
Dish Network and Tegna blamed each other for a possible blackout of stations in 52 markets on Dish that was to have started Wednesday night. Claiming Tegna “prioritizes greed,” Dish said Tuesday it's “demanding a massive increase to nearly a…
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billion dollars in fees for its programming.” Tegna emailed that it started alerting Dish subscribers about the possible blackout “due to Dish's refusal to reach a fair, market-based agreement to continue carriage of those stations.” Tegna said it's “committed to reaching a fair, market-based agreement with DISH based on the competitive terms we’ve used to reach deals with numerous other providers.”