Fox News and Dish have reached an agreement that will return Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network to the satellite-broadcaster's service after an absence that lasted a few weeks.
Tim Carry, executive vice president of distribution for both of the 21st Century Fox-owned networks, and Warren Schlichting, senior vice president of programming for Dish, released a joint statement that said, "We thank the viewers of FOX News and FOX Business and Dish customers for their patience throughout this process."
The two sides came to an impasse in late December, with Dish accusing Fox of trying to use the two networks to get better rates for other cable outlets it owns.
Terms of the new agreement were not disclosed.
The breakdown in talks and subsequent agreement is the latest fracas to erupt over distribution rights for programming, the fees from which have become more important in the TV industry, which has seen the stream of advertising dollars it collects begin to narrow along with a fluctuating economy and the advent of new consumer attractions such as social media and mobile devices.
This was the third service outage on Dish in recent months as it worked it way through negotiations with Time Warner's Turner and CBS Corp. Those talks resulted in a blackout of select Turner networks like CNN as well as a shout outage of CBS.
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