Dish Customers Lose CBS, Thanksgiving Football in Fee Dispute
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Dish Network Corp. subscribers face a Thanksgiving weekend without CBS shows including football matchups like the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys versus Los Angeles Chargers after the network’s programming was pulled from the service over a fee dispute.
At midnight Monday, CBS and local stations in 18 cities were discontinued, according to the companies. CBS called the move another example of Dish punishing customers instead of negotiating a new contract. Dish said it is “regrettable and unnecessary that CBS is bringing its greed in to the homes of millions of families this Thanksgiving.”
Blackouts and the threat of blackouts have increased as media companies and pay-TV providers get squeezed by new players and tussle over monthly subscriber revenue. Dish has lost 468,000 TV subscribers this year as people switch to streaming options like Netflix. CBS has fared better, with revenue up 1.3 percent as fees from viewers and deals to license programs have more than countered falling audience ratings and ad sales.
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