Sports channels “should be like a ticket to the ballpark—fans who want to watch the game should be the ones who pay for it,' says Andy LeCuyer, Dish senior vice president of programming
By Joe Flint July 26, 2019 1:01 pm ET Dish Network Corp. DISH 0.87% has stopped carrying 22 regional sports networks owned by the Walt Disney Co. DIS 1.01% as negotiations over a new distribution contract broke down.
Disney retained an outside adviser to handle the negotiation of distribution fees paid by Dish for the sports networks’ programming. A spokeswoman for the networks said an offer that would have retained the current terms in a new contract was rejected. Typically regional sports networks are among the most expensive services for distributors to carry, with the cost then being passed on to customers. As consumers continue to abandon their pay-TV services in favor of lower-cost alternatives, distributors such as Dish have been pushing hard to lower programming costs.
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