Dish Community subscribers have misplaced satellite tv for pc entry to stations owned by Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting due to a charge dispute.
About 850,000 Dish households are affected. Mission has about 30 stations, together with WPIX-TV in New York within the Dish footprint. Two White Knight stations are concerned.
“Each programming teams rejected Dish’s contract extension affords to maintain programming obtainable for patrons whereas we proceed to barter,” mentioned Brian Neylon, group president, Dish TV. “We’re upset Mission and White Knight have chosen this plan of action. The demanded charges are unreasonable provided that Mission and White Knight’s viewership on Dish have considerably declined over the previous three years, indicating that many viewers have moved to different channels for programming they like.”
Talking for Mission Broadcasting, Mission President Dennis Thatcher mentioned: “We had been unable to agree about an extension and our contract has expired.”
Mission is at present in a charge dispute with DirecTV that began in October, Mission’s WPIX was additionally blacked out to Comcast subscribers throughout December.
Dish can also be concerned in a blackout of Cox Media Group stations.
“Broadcasters like Mission and White Knight usually block buyer entry as they negotiate for larger charges,” added Neylon. “We are going to proceed to combat on behalf of Dish prospects to maintain costs as little as attainable. We hope Mission and White Knight will proceed to barter with us in good religion so we are able to decrease the disruption to our prospects.”
The stations are operated by Nexstar Media Group beneath native administration agreements, however Nexstar mentioned it does not deal with retransmission consent charge negotiations.
“The tv stations concerned on this carriage dispute are owned by and licensed to Mission Broadcasting, Inc. and White Knight Broadcasting, Inc. They don’t seem to be owned by Nexstar Media Group, Inc., and Nexstar has no function within the negotiations between Dish and both of those corporations,” Nexstar mentioned in an announcement.
White Knight stations affected are WVLA-TV in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and KFXK-TV, within the Tyler-Longview-Lufkin, Texas market. ■
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