If you’re a Dish Network subscriber, brace for influence: Thanks to an ongoing carriage dispute between the satellite tv for pc tv supplier and the broadcasting firm Sinclair, greater than 100 native TV stations may quickly be faraway from the TV service.

Ahead of an Aug. 16 negotiation deadline, Dish and Sinclair have but to come back to phrases on an settlement for a way the latter firm is allowed to mix its regional sports activities networks with native broadcast community associates. While each side are, predictably, saying that the opposite is guilty, Dish chairman Charlie Ergen characterised the dispute extra succinctly as being “about money.”

“It’s about economics,” Ergen stated. “That hasn’t changed in any programming negotiation that I’ve been involved with.”

According to Sinclair, the fallout from the failure to achieve an settlement will possible influence round 3.5 million subscribers in 38% of the U.S.

“We have tried unsuccessfully to reach fair and customary terms with Dish Network for the renegotiation of our retransmission consent,” David Gibber, Sinclair’s General Counsel, stated in a statement. “Given the status of these negotiations, we feel it is important to alert Dish Network subscribers to the real risk that some of their favorite stations will no longer be available through Dish Network including their access to live, local news, popular syndicated programming, sports programming including college and NFL football, and the network programming of our ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and CW affiliates in those markets.”

In addition to the intensive list of channels that Sinclair says may quickly be dropped, DISH subscribers are additionally vulnerable to dropping Tennis Channel, Gibber added.

While Sinclair in a press launch blamed Dish for having a “demonstrated track record of dropping local and national programming that viewers value,” Dish fired again in a statement of its own, claiming that Sinclair “…is trying to use its market power to demand an unreasonable fee increase, using millions of Americans as pawns in its negotiations.”

“Sinclair is demanding Dish pay nearly a billion dollars in fees for their television channels – a massive increase from what we pay for these same channels today despite declining viewership,” Dish TV group president Brian Neylon stated within the assertion.

Ergen, for his half, is well-known within the trade for his resistance to elevated carriage charges, and not too long ago proved that he was keen to sacrifice subscribers in a equally drawn-out and dear 2019 dispute with HBO and Univision over sports activities programming.

Asked by Deadline if there’s any finish in sight to the present battle with Sinclair over RSNs and broadcast stations, Ergen appeared to indicate that Dish was within the energy place.

“We don’t have any customers calling us on RSNs today,” he stated. “If the local channels were to go down, we would have more than one customer calling us the next day saying, ‘Where’s my local channel?’”