159 is the channel number for nbcsn on dish network.
what is the channel number for nbcsn on dish network?
159
on monday november 20, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. eastern, dish entered a dispute with cbs corporation. dish subscribers lost access to cbs television stations (which own and operate select cbs and the cw owned-and-operated stations in new york city, los angeles, chicago, dallas, among 14 other markets) cbs sports network and pop as the contract to carry those channels expired that day. showtime, the movie channel, and flix were not affected as the premium networks are carried in a different contract. dish network claimed in a statement the following day that "cbs chose to black out dish customers' access to its channels in an effort to raise rates and gain negotiating leverage." however, cbs rebutted those claims on wednesday november 22, saying that dish network is "desperate to retain subscribers" and "clearly, pulling content providers off the air is dish's way of doing things." customers in the los angeles and dallas markets were unable to watch the thanksgiving day football game between the los angeles chargers and the dallas cowboys unless they watched it over-the-air via a dtv antenna. the tv stations and cable channels were restored on november 24, 2017 after a new agreement was reached.
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on may 20, 2010, dish network announced that it was dropping the weather channel at midnight et that day in favor of its own similar weather information channel, the weather cast. the switch was due to high rates that the weather channel demanded dish network to pay (the weather channel requested a rate increase from 11 cents per subscriber per month to 12 cents). as of may 24, the weather channel stated that it had come to an agreement with dish network that would result in dish network carrying the weather channel for the next several years. despite the earlier announcement that the weather channel would be dropped, the channel was never officially removed from dish network. the weather cast was discontinued in anticipation of a weatherscan-based service that would provide local weather information for dish network customers. the financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed at this time.
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