United States: Dish removes Univision channels from their grids

Accordingly, since June 30, the Latin subscribers of the US pay television operator do not have access to the channels Univision UniMás and its affiliated stations, and ] Galavisión . And its streaming service Sling TV canceled Univision, UniMás, Galavisión, Univision Deportes Network (UDN), El Rey Network ] TLNovelas and ] Foro TV .

In a statement, Univision assured that Dish rejected a proposal to extend the current contract between the parties to allow negotiations on renewal will continue without interrupting viewers' access to content.

and Jessica Herrera-Flanigan Executive Vice President of Government and Corporate Affairs of Univision, went further and noted that "despite the success of our programming with their clients, Dish insists on paying only Univision only a fraction of what she pays to her English peers, some of whom with far fewer viewers. They even rejected the latest proposal from Univision, which still requires far less than what our English-speaking peers pay.

Dish, for his part, explained that "Univision is asking Dish to pay close to 75% more than they are now paying for channels whose setting has decreased by about 30% at during the last five years.

Alfredo Rodríguez Díaz-Marta Vice President of DishLatino and Sling Latino, said: Univision has an impact on Hispanics despite the fact that there are fewer members of our community who are watching Univision. He added: "This is the fourth time that Univision has suspended its signal with a pay-TV provider in the last two years." One of these suspensions was the one that took place in October 2016, when for a month AT & T took Univision out of service U-Verse .