Janie Morgan waited seven weeks and two days for WRCB-Channel 3 and Dish Network to end a contract dispute and station blackout.
But after the two companies finally came to an agreement and got the NBC affiliate back on the air around 4:15 p.m. Thursday, her happiness was fleeting.
“I have Dish Network, and it’s pouring down rain so I can’t use it right now,” she said Thursday evening. “I had it for a few minutes.”
Thursday’s storm was easier to weather than the nearly 2-months-old blackout as the two companies negotiated how much Dish would pay WRCB to carry the station’s programming.
Major networks such as Fox and NBC recently told their affiliates the larger companies would take a bigger share of those fees, leaving stations scrambling to make up the difference by charging higher fees.