Dish Drops Fox Sports West and other Regional Sports Networks

Dish Network subscribers in Southern California are without their Angels and Mike Trout fix because of a dispute over fees. The Englewood, Colo.-based satellite TV service announced Friday that it is no longer carrying Fox Sports West, Fox Sports San Diego, Prime Ticket and 19 other regional sports networks that were previously part of Rupert…

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CBS Stations Dropped from AT&T DirecTV in Select Markets

CBS-owned stations went dark early Saturday for DirecTV, U-verse and DirecTV NOW customers after the network and AT&T didn’t reach a new agreement. The previous contract expired at 2 a.m. EDT Saturday and both CBS and AT&T warned customers of the possible outage earlier in the week. “CBS has put our customers into the middle of its negotiations…

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TV Blackouts Will Only Get Worse

Whether you still use a coaxial cable to watch television or have converted to streaming, get used to channel blackouts and general confusion over which TV services carry your favorite programs. Signal disruptions, or blackouts, spiked in the U.S. last year. They involved 29 TV stations, data from Kagan-S&P Global Market Intelligence show, and more…

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