Fox Channels Blocked in Dish Network Dispute

In my article titled “Fox Channels Blocked in Dish Network Dispute” the two duels over a new contract.  As a consequence of the two disagreeing Dish network customers woke up Friday October 1^st only to find that FX, National Geographic Channel and Fox’s regional sports networks had disappeared.  The two companies say that neither one are the cause for the channels disappearing and blaming on another for the disagreement.   The customers are estimated at 14 million for Dish and just think of how they feel with the loss of popular channels.  If Dish network does not come to peace soon with Fox it can be a major fault for their company because many popular channels will be removed.  This will include all channels that fox owns as well as various sports channels.    Fox has 19 regional sports channels which many will be unsatisfied if removed, but Dish agreed to give customers the NFL network and others to compensate for their loss.  The Dish network claims that Fox wanted an amount that was unreasonable and not to their liking.  The two are going to keep disputing until they come to a reasonable agreement where both parties will benefit.  As of now the two have websites set up helping support their respected companies.  The television business can be tough when negotiating new TV contracts and here is a great example of why it is complicated to make everyone happy in the business world.  Both parties in my opinion will come to a common ground where they can both be satisfied as well as the customers of the Dish network. 

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/fox-sports-channels-blocked-in-dish-network-dispute/#more-45347