Editing Sinclair Broadcast Group (section)

===Dish Network===
[[Dish Network]]'s retransmission agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group was slated to expire on August 13, 2012. If an agreement had not reached by that time, 74 Sinclair stations would have been blacked out, including the affiliates of three of the major networks. A representative for Dish Network stated that Sinclair is "seeking a massive price increase that would force Dish to pay more to carry Sinclair's stations than it pays to any other broadcaster". A Sinclair representative, meanwhile, stated that it "believes significant doubt exists as to whether or not a new agreement will be reached with Dish". Dish Network subsequently set up its own website regarding the dispute.<ref name="dishnetwork">{{cite news |title=TV blackout threatened in station-provider dispute |url=http://thedailynewsonline.com/news/article_6b4bfd54-e61e-11e1-8cf8-001a4bcf887a.html |newspaper=[[The Daily News (Batavia)|The Daily News]] |date=August 2012 |access-date=January 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817043128/http://thedailynewsonline.com/news/article_6b4bfd54-e61e-11e1-8cf8-001a4bcf887a.html |archive-date=August 17, 2012 }}</ref> Dish and Sinclair came to an agreement on August 16, averting the removal of its any of the group's stations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sinclair Stations Remain On Dish Network After They Reach Carriage Agreement |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |url=https://deadline.com/2012/08/dish-network-sinclair-retransmission-agreement-320095/ |date=August 16, 2012 |access-date=February 4, 2014}}</ref>

On August 25, 2015, ten days after the 2012 retransmission agreement had expired, Dish customers lost access to 129 Sinclair stations, resulting in the largest local television blackout in history.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Dish Loses 129 Sinclair Stations in Biggest TV Blackout Ever |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |url=https://www.variety.com/2015/biz/news/dish-sinclair-tv-blackout-1201578634 |date=August 26, 2015 |access-date=August 26, 2015}}</ref>