Article: Dish Network Lowers the Boom on Voom.(EchoStar Communications Corp.)

by Linda Moss

Dish Network, which has a history of dropping networks in squabbles with programmers, last week lowered the boom on Voom HD, taking down all 15 channels of the HD suite.

The satellite-TV provider, which is in the midst of litigation with Rainbow Media's Voom, dropped its networks in two stages, with the first 10 coming off overnight last Monday and the rest getting dropped the next evening.

Voom, which unsuccessfully tried to get a preliminary injunction against Dish Network to prevent its channels from being dropped, still has a lawsuit pending against the satellite provider.

But in the meantime, Dish Network's drop of Voom is a blow, since the ...

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