HBO and Cinemax leave the air for Dish and Sling TV due to the programming dispute with AT & T
HBO and Cinemax leave the air for Dish and Sling TV due to the programming dispute with AT & T
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HBO is no longer available to Dish TV subscribers due to a stagnation in the programming negotiations between Dish Network and HBO's parent company, AT & T.
USA TODAYDo you want to see "Game of Thrones" or "Veep" again this weekend with your extra hour of daylight saving time? You may have to make other plans if you have dish network satellite service or TV broadcast by Sling TV.
HBO and Cinemax have been left in the dark for subscribers of the two providers as part of a programming dispute between Dish Network and AT & T, owner of the two premium cable companies as a result of its merger with Time Warner earlier this year. .
Dish, which owns and operates the Sling TV service over the Internet in addition to its traditional satellite service, says that AT & T took out its channels as a way to make it pay "a guaranteed number of subscribers, regardless of how many consumers actually want to. HBO. "
"AT & T is stacking the platform with free lifetime offerings for wireless customers and reduced prices on broadcast services, effectively trying to force DISH to subsidize HBO on AT & T platforms," said Andy LeCuyer, senior vice president of programming at Dish, in a statement. . "This is the exact anti-competitive behavior that critics of the AT & T-Time Warner merger warned us of: every pay-TV company should be concerned."
Meanwhile, HBO maintains that Dish rejected them, and told USA TODAY in a statement that Dish responds to "our attempts in good faith with unreasonable terms," and that adding "Dish" by eliminating the services of its customers is becoming in a negotiation tactic too common for them. . "
In a statement provided to USA TODAY, WarnerMedia spokesman Keith Cocozza says the company offered to allow Dish to continue with HBO under the company's "existing terms."
Cocozza told USA TODAY on Friday afternoon that HBO was still sending its signal to Dish's subscribers, but that Dish was preventing its customers from accessing the channel on TV or through the HBO Go app.
WarnerMedia is the division that AT & T created for its entertainment companies after the merger of Time Warner.
The premium cable channel has since launched a "Keep My HBO" website to encourage Dish or Sling TV users to subscribe to their HBO Now streaming service for $ 14.99 a month or add HBO or Cinemax to a different streaming service, such as PlayStation Vue, Prime Video, Hulu or DirecTV from AT & T now.
In addition to DirecTV Now, AT & T owns the competitors of Dish DirecTV and U-Verse.
The latest in the new trend of cable and satellite negotiations.
Disputes between content providers and cable and satellite providers are not uncommon, as companies try to negotiate new agreements. Last year, a dispute between CBS and Dish led CBS to remove some of its channels from the satellite provider and football fans. losing a game between Los Angeles Chargers and Dallas Cowboys on the day of thanksgiving.
In 2012, two years before AT & T bought them, a dispute between DirecTV and Viacom led to channels such as MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. retired from DirecTV systems for nine days While the two companies negotiated.
The HBO statement indicates that this is the first time in its "more than forty years of operation" that it has not reached an agreement with a distributor.
While that may be true, Dish notes that the pull of HBO and Cinemax comes just a few months after a judge approved the merger of AT & T with Time Warner for $ 85 billion. The Justice Department filed a lawsuit to block that deal because of concerns that AT & T would gain too much control over how Americans will see Time Warner content and what platforms it could do.
The department is Currently the appeal of the victory of AT & T, saying that the ruling in favor of AT & T was found only by "mistakenly ignoring the fundamental principles of economics and common sense".
AT & T, however, accuses Dish and the DOJ of working together, even extending it to this latest HBO dispute.
"The Department of Justice worked closely with Dish in its unsuccessful lawsuit to block our merger," Cocozza said in a statement to the US. UU TODAY. "That collaboration continues to this day with Dish's tactical decision to leave HBO, and not the other way around, the Justice Department did not test their HBO claims at the trial and then dropped them on appeal."
Dish hopes to go to arbitration with AT & T, with access to HBO and Cinemax being restored as companies resolve their differences. AT & T, of course, is advising people on Twitter to go to their "Keep My HBO" website to find other ways to get the channels.
Dish Network says that Dish and Sling TV users who currently subscribe to HBO or Cinemax will get credit on their bills as the dispute continues.
It is not clear how long the current dispute will last. Meanwhile, consumers are losing access to channels as the two companies fight.
Follow Eli Blumenthal on Twitter @eliblumenthal
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