Dish Drops Sinclair Retrans Complaint

Dish and Sinclair ended their retransmission dispute and signed a retrans consent agreement, ending a complaint Dish filed against Sinclair in August, Dish said in an FCC filing Nov. 25 in docket 12-1. Dish and Sinclair were at loggerheads in negotiations and Dish customers were facing blackouts of 152 local channels in 79 markets (see 1508170031).