In this Feb. 23, 2011 photo, three Dish Network satellite dishes are shown at an apartment complex in Palo Alto, Calif. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Paul Sakuma
March 03, 2014 - 6:12 PM
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Dish Network and Disney have reached a landmark deal that envisions the day when Dish can send subscribers a range of TV programming over the Internet without the need for a satellite receiver on the roof.
The deal announced late Monday paves the way for Dish to offer live local broadcasts from ABC TV stations and programming from ABC Family, Disney Channel, ESPN and ESPN2 over mobile devices, set-top boxes and other means, similar to how Netflix's video streams are delivered today.
No start date for such a service was announced.
In exchange, Dish Network Corp. would disable for three days a function on its Hopper digital video recorders that allows people to automatically record and strip out commercials from prime-time weeknight programming. But that's only for programs on ABC, which is owned by The Walt Disney Co.
News from © The Associated Press, 2014