• Bloomberg, Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:43 PM

Dish Network, a satellite-television provider, settled with 46 states on allegations it ran misleading ads and used improper marketing practices. Dish will pay the states a total of about $6 million and compensate consumers who filed complaints in the first half of 2009. Dish states there was "no finding of any violation or wrongdoing" by the company.

The states complained that Dish charged customers' credit cards without proper notification, failed to disclose that some of its equipment was previously used and made misleading claims in its advertisements.

California, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio weren't part of the settlement, in part because they and the FTC have a separate federal lawsuit pending against Dish over accusations the company violated the national "Do Not Call" list. In April, Dish competitors DirecTV and Comcast agreed to pay a total of $3.2 million to settle allegations they called consumers who didn't want telephone solicitations.

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