Dish And Sinclair Bury The Hatchet With New Carriage Deal For Local Stations, Tennis Channel — But No Update On Regional Sports Nets

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Dish Network and Sinclair Broadcast Group, the No. 2 local TV owner in the U.S., have reached a carriage agreement keeping 144 stations in 86 markets on the air.The deal also includes the Tennis Channel, with the network and the stations remaining on Dish TV satellite service and internet-delivered bundle Sling TV.

As of September 30, Dish had 8.4 million satellite customers and another 2.6 million on Sling, for a total of 11 million.In announcing the pact, the companies did not mention the 19 Bally sports networks operated by a group of investors led by Sinclair.

Dish dropped the RSNs in the summer of 2019.While all pay-TV contract negotiations are fraught, especially in the current climate of cord-cutting and declining viewership, Dish