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Less than one month after Dish Network pulled the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network from its platform, over 90,000 of its customers have cancelled their subscriptions in favor of other television providers, according to a Fox News executive.
Tim Carry, Fox News’ executive vice president for distribution, told Multi Channel Wednesday about 90,000 subscribers have cancelled their Dish subscriptions as a consequence of the television giant pulling the channels. “We think they’ve lost about 90,000 subscribers over the past two weeks tied to Fox News,” Carry said.
Dish Loses 90,000 Subscribers After Removing Fox News, Fox Business
originally posted by: xuenchen
Looks like Dish Network TV has lost a few subscribers since they yanked Fox News off their channel lineup.
Fox and Dish can't seem to come to a new agreement for airing the obviously popular FoxNews.
I wonder what's going on?
Less than one month after Dish Network pulled the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network from its platform, over 90,000 of its customers have cancelled their subscriptions in favor of other television providers, according to a Fox News executive.
Tim Carry, Fox News’ executive vice president for distribution, told Multi Channel Wednesday about 90,000 subscribers have cancelled their Dish subscriptions as a consequence of the television giant pulling the channels. “We think they’ve lost about 90,000 subscribers over the past two weeks tied to Fox News,” Carry said.
Dish Loses 90,000 Subscribers After Removing Fox News, Fox Business
In a statement, Dish says its 14 million customers all over the United States will not have access to the two channels because Fox blocked access to these channels to use them as leverage to demand for redistribution fees for other sports and entertainment channels that are three times the regular fees charged by other broadcasters. It is unclear what these other channels are, although Dish could be referring to Fox Sports 1 and FXX.
However, Fox fired back with the accusations, saying Dish is using its subscribers as its "pawns" to "intimidate and sway our negotiations." Fox News Channel executive vice president Tim Carry says the distribution fees demanded by the broadcasting company are "customary" in a Fox distribution negotiation and it has similar agreements with other TV providers.
Fox News Channel did not disconnect Dish, rather, Dish prematurely ceased distribution of Fox News in an attempt to intimidate and sway our negotiations."
Earlier this month, CBS went black for several hours over similar disagreements in distribution fees, but the channels affected came back up shortly as Dish and CBS decided to a multi-year carriage contract that involved limited use of Dish's AutoHop commercial-skipping technology and Dish's access to CBS' Showtime Anytime streaming service.
Dish also had similar problems with Turner, with several channels including CNN and Cartoon Network going black before both companies agreed on a short-term contract while they come up with a long-term solution.
originally posted by: buster2010
Looks like the average IQ of Dish Tv watchers just went up. If these people cancelled their contracts early did they have to pay any fees for doing so? I read on one website it cost a lady 600 bucks to get out of her contract. Don't these people have the internet you can find the same thing on internet that you watch on tv.
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originally posted by: intrepid
Over 14 million subscribers. I'm sure they are quaking. In fact, take away 90K and they still have over 14M.