Disney, Dish Extend Talks, Avoid FX, NatGeo Blackout

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The Walt Disney Co. and Dish appear to have avoided a blackout of the FX and National Geographic channels that could have started at midnight eastern time Tuesday.

Related: Disney Warning Dish Subs of FX, Nat Geo Blackout

Sources indicated that the deadline was postponed and that negotiations have become productive.

Disney, which acquired the FX and NatGeo channels when it bought 21st Century Fox. began warning Dish subscribers on Tuesday that they could lose the channels.

Disney has initially warned that a blackout was looming in July, but an extension was reached at that time.

Jon Lafayette
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Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.