NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dish Network Corp agreed to carry the Weather Channel, ending disagreements over carriage fees and programing that threatened to keep the network off the pay TV service.
Dish Network will carry two networks of the Weather Channel, including a customized local weather features that the satellite service wanted.
Weather Channel sought higher monthly carrier fees. while Dish Network threatened to drop the Weather Channel because it would not provide local weather features.
Additional terms of the agreement, including Weather Channel carrier fees, were not disclosed.
The partnership also includes personalized weather reports from the Weather Channel through the Android mobile platform to be launched this summer.
The Weather Channel gets about one-sixth of its U.S. viewers through the Dish Network. On average the Weather Channel is paid 11 cents a month per subscriber, according to SNL Kagan data.
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