KGAN and KFXA Renewed to Appear on DISH Network

Update:

Sinclair Broadcast Group has made an agreement with DISH Network to provide its two local channels, KGAN and KFXA, to the satellite provider.

This comes after the broadcaster threatened to take it's content from the provider if they weren't compensated more.

The message in it's entirety was posted on KGAN Facebook page:

Attention Dish Network Subscribers: Sinclair Broadcast Group is pleased to announce that it has reached agreement in principle with Dish Network on a new retransmission consent agreement and has entered into a two week extension of its existing agreement.

Original Story:

Warning to all DISH Network customers in Marion and beyond: you might not be able to flip to KGAN or KFXA come Thursday.

The owner of the channels, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, is asking for more money in from DISH Network to carry the channels. They've threatened to pull their programming from the television provider at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.

DISH Network has claimed that the media group is asking for more money than any other local broadcaster, according to the Gazette.

Barry Faber, the Sinclair Group's general counsel, argued the company should be paid on a per-viewer rate, meaning they should be paid more than networks that don't reach as many viewers.