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Dish Network Corp. DISH reached a deal with Gannett Co. GCI that ensures uninterrupted retransmissions of television stations. The companies didn't disclose financial terms or other details of the long-term agreement. Dish's earlier pact to carry Gannett's 22 TV stations on its satellite-TV service was due to expire at midnight on Sunday. In reaching a deal, the two sides averted a blackout of certain ABC, CBS and NBC-affiliated stations for Dish customers in 19 cities, including Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Denver and Phoenix. While disputes between pay-TV distributors and media companies over programming fees have become more common, this negotiation was complicated by Auto Hop, a feature that Dish introduced in May on its latest digital video recorder that allows for skipping of commercials on broadcast networks. Gannett said it was seeking a "fair, market-based deal" with increased rates to compensate partly for the impact of advertising revenue lost as a result of the Auto Hop feature. Fox is a unit of News Corp., which also owns The Wall Street Journal. ABC is a unit of Walt Disney Co.; CBS is a unit of CBS Corp., and NBC is a unit of Comcast Corp. _______________________________________________ Please be sure to include a URL to the article. Reply to the sender with a "Thank you" if you like this post. _______________________________________________ Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
