Apollo, Now a Local-TV Giant, Ensnared in Fee Spat With Dish
- 14 stations in 10 cities are pulled from satellite TV service
- Both sides blame the other for shutting off the channels
Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg
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Apollo Global Management, which built a local-TV empire during a recent dealmaking push, is now contending with one of the industry’s biggest frustrations: contract disputes with satellite and cable companies.
Dish Network Corp. said customers in 10 cities lost local TV stations after the signals were yanked by Apollo’s Cox Media Group. Cox blamed Dish for the halt. The companies have been unable to reach a new agreement that would let Dish retransmit the stations to pay-TV customers in those markets.