PRESQUE ISLE — WAGM-TV, the Presque Isle-based affiliate of CBS and FOX, avoided a blackout on DISH Network after the station’s parent company reached a last-minute agreement with the satellite television service.
The parent company of WAGM, Gray Television, and it stations had warned of DISH Network subscribers losing access to 99 Gray Television streams, including WAGM, as of 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17.
Shortly after 7 p.m. Gray Television announced that “an agreement in principle” with DISH covering all of its stations. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The television station warned its viewers that DISH subscribers could lose the channel, and said that DISH has dropped more than 200 local television programs around the country in the last two years.
A spokesperson for the Englewood, Colorado-based Dish Network said in an email before the deal was reached “DISH has successfully negotiated agreements representing hundreds of stations in recent months that benefit all parties, including our viewers.”
