Pop Tv Back On Dish Network

Earlier this week Dish Network, the second biggest Satelite carrier in the country, had blacked out some of CBS’s cable channels after the contract between the two had expired and a new one was being worked out. Pop TV, CBS Sports, and The Smithsonian Channel were replaced with other channels with Pop TV’s signal showing Bravo instead for Dish costumers. This week’s showing of Impact Wrestling was not shown to Dish consumers and the episode is now available on Video on Demand. 
Impact wrestling stood to lose millions of dollars if the talks had dragged on longer as Pop TV is the television home of Impact Wrestling in the United States and that the loss of the viewers would be very costly. Interestingly, the normal CBS broadcast network as carried by local channels around the country seemed not to be affected by this round of talks that seemed to get heated between the carrier and the Network. Dish Network has been known before to black out channels and tries to tell customers it is the broadcasters fault for the disruption every time they encounter a bargaining over a new contract. Within the last few years, Dish and CBS have fought once before, and Dish has also done the same with the Time Warner Networks as well. As it stands, Dish and CBS have a new contract that runs for a number of years.