It’s Over, The Fox News Showdown With Dish Network, And Look Who Just Got Served Big Time

by Norvell Rose 

How appropriate that “dish” is a key word in this story of media giants battling it out to a bloody but decisive finish.
The showdown between Fox News and Dish Network is reportedly over following a three-week confrontation that saw each side dishing out super-heated charges against the other.
Dish accused Fox of extortion. Fox accused Dish of censorship. And now that the radioactive dust is clearing, it’s apparent that Roger Ailes and Fox News have served the second largest satellite programming provider with a steaming dish of humble pie.

Mediaite reports that Dish has been broken, or at the very least badly cracked, in its highly publicized battle with the undisputed ratings king of cable news.
The Wall Street Journal says that the new multi-year distribution deal not only puts Fox News back on the satellite TV service with its 14 million subscribers, but it also puts much more money in Fox pockets.
The rate per-subscriber that Dish reportedly agreed to pay to Fox will increase by a whopping 50 percent, up to $1.50. Plus, Fox Business Network will appear next to Fox News in the channel lineup, enabling Fox Business to be more readily seen in a greater number of households.

A big reason that Dish Network has caved, say insiders, is an old and familiar one — money, specifically, lost money — severely bleeding revenues. As Western Journalism has reported, a Fox News source indicated a few days ago that some 90,000 subscribers had dropped their Dish service because of the loss of Fox on their TVs.

…resulting in tens of millions in losses if a majority had a typical package for Dish (paying $99.00-$127.00 per month). When the dust settled, Fox had the luxury of audience devotion and familiar faces on the front lines, while Dish was just another faceless, hated cable provider in the same way Comcast, Time Warner and Cablevision are.

USA Today tells us that, in the end, after weeks of airing charges and counter-charges, executives from Dish and Fox issued a terse joint statement: “We thank the viewers of Fox News and Fox Business and Dish customers for their patience throughout this process.”

H/T: Mediaite
This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Informing And Equipping Americans Who Love Freedom