Both sides say there has been no
change in Court TV's carriage status, but neither company would confirm if negotiations were actually going on. Ergen doesn't usually wait once he decides to pull a network. When Court TV's contract
expired on Jan. 1, it went black in DISH households minutes after midnight.
Since then, Court TV has lost nearly 13% of its subscriber base, dropping from almost 88 million to about 76 million. But it hasn't suffered a ratings slide and actually posted its most-watched month in its 15-year history, delivering 1.16 million total viewers in prime time, an increase of 21% over January 2006.
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