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Article: Dish Sacks NFL Net.(National Football League)
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- February 25, 2008
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by Mike Reynolds
As the mtn. Kicks Off On DirecTV
NFL Network has been sacked again, as it tries to maneuver for more distribution.
Dish Network dropped the National Football League's in-house channel from its 'America's Top 100' Package, moving it to the 'America's Top 200' package as of Feb. 20.
That means NFL Network has lost about 4 million subscribers. The America's Top 100 Package reaches an estimated 12 million Dish subscribers, versus 8 million for America's Top 200. That reduces the number of households NFL Network now reaches to 31 million.
NFL Network last year absorbed another major hit when Comcast, backed by a ...