Bayou: Dish Settles Retrans Suit

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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The attorney for Bayou City Broadcasting Evansville (BCBE) said it has settled its lawsuit against Dish over the latter's alleged retrans underpayment.

In the suit, filed Aug. 31 in a Colorado U.S. district court, claimed that the satellite company "knowingly and improperly prorated retransmission fees in order to shortchange BCBE significant contractually owed revenues."

"We are very satisfied with the outcome as well as the expeditious nature of the resolution," said Bruse Loyd of Jones, Gillaspia & Loyd.

He said BCBE got the "full amount" of retrans payments owed, plus interest.

Dish had no comment.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.