The squabble, as usual, is over money. These types of battles usually are settled within a few days, or almost always within a couple weeks. But as this one enters its eighth day Friday, it might be different.
“It doesn’t look good that the regional sports will ever be on Dish again,” he said on the call as reported by the trade publication Ad Age(ttps://tinyurl.com/y67py792). “The frustrating thing is, they are not very good economic deals for us. We have real data that tells us that the channels are overpriced.”
Disney is in the process of trying to sell FSM and other regional sports networks to Sinclair Broadcast Group, and the bid is being evaluated by federal regulators.