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# CBS, Dish Network Locked In Stalemate Over Contract Extension

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## Video: CBS, Dish Network Locked In Stalemate Over Contract Extension

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_Published 2014-12-04. The two sides have until 7 p.m. EST Thursday to come to an agreement. If they don’t Dish Network will not carry CBS stations for an indefinite amount of time._


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## Transcript

Dish Network subscribers could soon be without all of this. CBS and Dish Network have until 7pm eastern time Thursday to work out a new deal. If a deal isn't reached by then, Dish subscribers will be saying good bye to CBS for an indefinite period of time. The two sides are currently operating off of an extension. The second granted in the last few weeks, in hopes of getting a deal done. But CBS officials decide to halt things there Tuesday, giving the Thursday ultimatum. The hold up is reportedly over CBS's decision to stream it's content aside from football online for a monthly fee. Dish Network officials feel like this takes away from viewers interest in getting a Dish subscription.

When it comes to many of these companies really is not whether they're going to be on or off. The air but it's, the fact that fewer people are watching them ratings are down and advertising. CBS had a great year last year. You know this year it has been down. Now these content provider versus content distributer battles aren't unheard of. The last time CBS went dark was during its 2013 battle with Time Warner. Which as The Verge points out, didn't go well for the distributer. Fourteen markets around the nation could be effected by the lack of an agreement including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and more.

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