Dish Restores Four Citadel Stations
Dish Network, Citadel Communications end retransmission-consent-fee dispute.
By Robert Marich -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/10/2008 7:26:00 AM
After a five-week blackout, Dish Network is again beaming four Citadel Communications TV stations to their Midwestern cities, ending the two parties’ retransmission-consent-fee dispute.
There was no word on financial terms, but the Citadel stations went back up on Dish over the weekend.
Dish dropped the stations Aug. 1, and the satellite-TV provider also dropped sports basic-cable network GolTV in a carriage-fee disagreement. Dish said Wednesday that GolTV is not in its lineup.
Citadel operates three ABC affiliates and a CBS affiliate. They are WOI (ABC) in Des Moines, Iowa; WHBF (CBS) in Davenport, Iowa; KLKN (ABC) in Lincoln, Neb.; and KCAU (ABC) in Sioux City, Iowa.
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I''m sure glad that KCAU has been restored to DISH Network. I had to watch the last two episodes of THE MOLE on a black-and-white snowy, squiggly-lined picture, and my mom missed her FAMILY FEUD. Now that it is back on, I won''t have to go to my uncle''s house to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Southern California Trojans, and other college football games during the season. I''m upset it was off for 36 days, but I am sure am happy it is back on the air.
Jon Neunaber - 9/10/2008 9:10:00 PM EDT -
Does anybody knows whether Goltv will eventually
be resumed? Or it's just a bye bye Dish?
Robert - 9/10/2008 2:07:00 PM EDT
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