Dish Gains Web Rights to Disney TV Shows New Pact
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Dish Network Corp. reached a groundbreaking agreement to carry Walt Disney Co. programming, gaining rights to offer Disney, ABC and ESPN shows over the Web in addition to its satellite pay-TV service.
The multiyear deal, which also ends legal standoff between the companies over Dish’s AutoHop ad-skipping technology, is the first between Disney and a pay-TV provider to include so-called over-the-top program rights. It will allow Englewood, Colorado-based Dish to offer Disney shows as part of a future Web-based subscription-TV service.