By Phillip Swann
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Dish and Cox Media have settled their 17-month long carriage dispute, returning Cox Media’s 13 local network affiliates in nine markets to Dish’s lineup. Cox Media’s local stations posted the news today at their station web sites.
“WPXI-TV’s owners, Cox Media Group (CMG), and DISH reached a new multi-year agreement that restored WPXI-TV and all CMG stations on DISH,” WPXI said today.
The stations were removed from Dish on November 28, 2022 when the two companies could not reach a new agreement. The stations returning to Dish include:
(ABC: WSB) – Atlanta, GA
(FOX: WFXT) – Boston, MA
(ABC: WSOC) – Charlotte, NC
(CBS: WHIO) – Dayton, OH
(FOX: KLSR) – Eugene, OR
(FOX: WFOX) – Jacksonville, FL
(ABC: WFTV) – Orlando, FL
(NBC: WPXI) – Pittsburgh, PA
(CBS: KIRO) – Seattle, WA
Cox has four other independent channels that were part of the dispute:
KMYT-TV, Channel 41 (MNT, Tulsa, OK)
WFOX2-TV, Channel 32 (MNT, Jacksonville, FL)
WAXN-TV, Channel 64 (IND, Charlotte, NC)
WRDQ-TV, Channel 27 (IND, Orlando, FL)
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