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Dish Seeks Arbitration of NBCUniversal Dispute

Dish Network will request arbitration of its retransmission consent dispute with NBCUniversal, Dish said in a news release Friday. “This notice triggers a mandatory 10-day ‘cooling off period' during which DISH and NBCUniversal can continue negotiating and affected programming is…

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required to remain available to DISH customers.” A programmer website run by NBCU now says: “This dispute is in the process of being resolved.” Dish previously sued NBCU over messages on that website (see 1603150053). Dish said it's “committed to reaching a new distribution agreement with NBCUniversal and to not disrupt customers in the process.”