ABC, NBC, CW, and CBS Turn Back On In Key Markets After Dish-Hearst Deal
Announced just before all of these networks have to present to advertisers.
Most of the major networks were turned off for Dish TV subscribers in Baltimore, Boston, Kansas City and Pittsburgh, but those issues appear to be resolved now that Dish and Hearst TV have a new deal in place. This deal includes retransmission rights of Hearst affiliate stations that include NBC, CW, CBS, and ABC networks in the aforementioned markets.
Those stations have been dark for Dish customers since March 3rd when the two sides couldn’t reach a deal.
[h/t: Deadline]
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?