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Multichannel News, January, 2007

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Dish Drops Court TV From Lineup

Linda Moss

Englewood, Colo. -- In EchoStar Communications' latest spat with a programmer, Court TV last week remained off Dish Network's lineup as the result of a contract dispute.

Court TV was dropped from Dish's America's Top 60 tier at 12:01 a.m. Jan. 1, when the programmer's carriage deal with the No. 2 satellite service expired. The network, part of Turner Broadcasting, was replaced by The Biography Channel.

That drop sliced roughly 11 million subscribers from Court TV's distribution, which most recently had stood at 87.7 million, according to Nielsen Media Research.

At press time, a Turner spokesman said that Dish and Court TV had not held any...

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