Dish Tells Judge TV-Ad-Skipping Case Should Be Tried in New York

Dish Network Corp., the third largest pay-television provider, told a judge that lawsuits over its service allowing viewers to watch ad-free TV should be heard in New York instead of Los Angeles, where the major broadcast networks filed their complaints.

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan heard arguments last night on whether the lawsuit by Dish, filed in New York against the television networks, should continue. In May, Swain ordered a temporary halt to the networks’ suits filed in California. She said she plans to rule on where the cases will be heard “within a week.”