Oct 01

Dish and Disney Avoid Blackout of ESPN and ABC — for Now

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Dish Network and Walt Disney Co. reached a short-term extension of their programming agreement, averting a blackout of Disney channels including ESPN and ABC while the parties negotiate a long-term deal, the companies said Monday night.

The extension temporarily prevents a blackout of ESPN, the Disney Channel and some ABC stations for millions of pay-TV customers. Dish is the third-largest U.S. pay-TV service in total subscribers.

More than 3 million Time Warner Cable customers lost CBS Corp. programming for a month before those two companies agreed to a new retransmission contract on Sept. 2. Dish has about 14 million subscribers.

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