• Multichannel News, Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:45 AM

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay a lower-court order that Dish Network must stop offering signals of TV stations to hundreds of thousands of subscribers outside of those stations' home markets. The company lost its bid for an emergency appeal to delay the appeals court ruling. It wanted the stay so that it could continue offering the "distant signals" until the high court decides whether to hear a full appeal. An 11th Circuit panel ruled in May that Dish was illegally providing local TV stations--from broadcasters such as ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox--to at least 630,000 homes from markets outside their own. EchoStar says the ruling wasn't unexpected, since the U.S. Supreme Court grants stays in only a very small percentage of the cases it reviews.

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