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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowEnding a dispute that caused 27 local television stations in 17 cities to go dark for eight days, Dish Network and television station owner Lin TV Corp. agreed to contract terms Sunday. Lin owns WISH-TV Channel 8 in Indianapolis.
Terms of the agreement were not released, and neither side has said how many viewers were affected.
The two sides failed to agree before a March 5 deadline. Since then, Dish Network subscribers in 17 cities including Indianapolis, Providence, R.I., and Buffalo, N.Y., were no longer able to watch local affiliates of networks such as CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC and the CW.
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