Fox 10 Back On Dish Network

March 14, 2011

Some good news today for Dish Network satellite television subscribers — American Idol, Glee, NASCAR and the Simpsons are back.

LIN Media, owner of WALA Fox 10 in Mobile, and Dish reached a new retransmission agreement, restoring WALA to the Dish lineup. Dish customers lost WALA on March 4 when the two companies failed to reach a retransmission agreement as Dish blasted LIN for being “greedy”.

But a new deal was reached over the weekend, the terms of which were not disclosed.

“We are pleased that our negotiations with Dish Network resulted in fair resolution and a news retransmission consent agreement,” LIN CEO Vince Sadusky said in an issued statement. “We thank our viewers and our advertisers for their tremendous support.”

“We appreciate your tremendous support throughout these negotiations. This fair resolution ensures that we can continue to provide top quality news, sports, entertainment, and other local programming that is most important to you,” said a statement posted Sunday morning by WALA on their website.

Comments

9 Responses to “Fox 10 Back On Dish Network”

  1. atmore on March 15th, 2011 2:31 pm

    YAY! I’m glad to have it back!! =)

  2. Michael on March 14th, 2011 6:52 pm

    Dish Network has used this tactic many times over the years with great success. It’s how they keep from having to raising their prices. Going without a channel or two for a few days is better than your bill going up permanently.

  3. memaw on March 14th, 2011 4:29 pm

    thank goodness! got to have HOUSE.I only missed one episode.thanks for coming to an agreement.

  4. just call me joe on March 14th, 2011 12:40 pm

    Found out I could do without it. I did miss Jeopardy though.

  5. ET on March 14th, 2011 9:14 am

    I call DISH and ask for a refund. Tthey would not give a refund but they gave me a month of choise of movie channel

  6. From Century on March 14th, 2011 7:33 am

    yessssssssssssss we had called about this loosing 10 they told us they would get it back !!!!!!

  7. elmerfudd on March 14th, 2011 7:30 am

    I get 7500+ stations and no satellite or cable bill. My internet conection and a good video card, (just like downtown) free movies free tv

  8. Flomaton Mom on March 14th, 2011 7:14 am

    YAY! I can watch IDOL and my Fox 10 news….I don’t care about a refund, I’m just glad it’s back on!

  9. mary on March 14th, 2011 5:51 am

    about time..we DISH customers should get a refund for days w/o channel 10 & 55

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