Dish Extends Disney Deadline to Avoid ESPN, ABC Blackout
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Dish Network Corp. and Walt Disney Co. reached a short-term extension of their programming agreement, averting a blackout of Disney channels including ESPN and ABC while the parties negotiate a long-term deal.
Details of the extension weren’t disclosed, Englewood, Colorado-based Dish, the third-largest U.S. pay-TV service in total subscribers, said yesterday in a joint statement with Burbank, California-based Disney.