A judge Thursday declined Dish Network’s request to block the FCC from...
A judge Thursday declined Dish Network’s request to block the FCC from enforcing a law requiring Dish to carry additional public TV in HD. U.S. District Judge James Mahan in Las Vegas said Dish hadn’t met the test for a…
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preliminary injunction. As a result, the company must sign carriage agreements with 30 public stations over the next week or face stricter public HD requirements, as required by the Satellite TV Extension and Localism Act. Failure to reach the agreements would require Dish to meet a government schedule calling for carriage of 50 percent of public stations in HD by year-end. “We are disappointed with the decision, and intend to appeal,” said Dish, which had filed for the injunction on constitutional grounds. “We believe that our customers should be the ones who decide what they want to watch on TV and how they want to watch it. We also believe that it is important to defend those fundamental First Amendment rights."