Univision will no longer be seen by Dish and Sling TV "indefinitely"

How fortunate that the 2018 FIFA World Cup ™ is not aired on Univision this year because the millions of Dish Network subscribers would be very, very angry right now.

But that was surely the case of the Mexicans They expected to see news about the elections in their country.

Univision said on Monday that its relationship with Dish Network had been suspended "indefinitely" because companies could not agree on the terms of two contracts: the first would have maintained the transmission of current content from the market. Univision by the satellite TV provider while they arrived at the second and new mutual agreement of longer duration.

The failure of the negotiations resulted in a breakdown of Univision on Dish that started last weekend, specifically on Saturday, June 30th.

The suspension of the Univision network, and of its subsidiaries UniMás and Galavisión, also extends to the service of streaming Sling TV, subsidiary of Dish, where Univision broadcasts seven channels of which, in more than those already mentioned Univision Deportes Network (UDN), El Rey Network, TLNovelas and Foro TV

Dish, for its part, accuses Univision of demanding to pay 75% more for its content despite the fact that His hearing on Dish has dropped by 30 percent over the past five years.

"The price increases attempted by Univision have an impact on Hispanics despite the fact that there are fewer members of our community watching Univision," said Alfredo Rodríguez Díaz-Marta, Vice President of DishLATINO and Sling Latino.

On the other hand, Univision criticized Dish for preventing access to his Spanish-language subscribers to information about the presidential elections in Mexico on July 1 and on the events with families separated at the border . The company says that the third most popular channel in all languages ​​on the Dish platform should receive the same payment for its content as its English counterparts.

"Despite the success of our programming with its customers, DISH insists on paying Univision only a fraction of what it pays to our English peers, even some with far fewer viewers," said Jessica Herrera- Flanigan, executive vice president of corporate and government affairs at Univision. "They even rejected the latest proposal from Univision, which still requires far less than our anglophone colleagues will pay."

In 2016, AT & T removed Univision from its U-Verse service for a similar disagreement, which also affected users of Verizon Fios for a period of one month in October 2017.