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B1G fans who are Dish Network subscribers may have an issue this weekend

Dustin Schutte

By Dustin Schutte

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B1G fans who have Dish for their satellite television provider may have a serious problem this weekend.

According to John Ourand of Sports Business Journal, Dish Network has dropped FOX channels, which includes FOX broadcast channel, Fs1, Big Ten Network and FS2. There are three B1G games that will air on one of those channels this weekend.

Those games are:

  • No. 12 Penn State vs. Maryland (FS1, 8:00 p.m. (Friday))
  • Rutgers vs. No. 20 Michigan (BTN, 12:00 p.m.)
  • Indiana vs. No. 25 Michigan State (BTN, 3:30 p.m.)

Ourand shared the statement FOX issued following the news:

Dish/Sling is at it again, choosing to drop leading programming as a negotiating tactic regardless of the impact on its own customers. Dish/Sling elected to drop FOX networks in an effort to coerce us to agree to outrageous demands…

While we regret this is Dish/Sling’s preferred approach to negotiating, we remind our loyal viewers that the FOX services are widely available through every other major television provider.

The FOX networks own a large portion of B1G football and men’s basketball games, with several matchups featured every week.

Dustin Schutte

Dustin grew up in the heart of Big Ten country and has been in sports media since 2010. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. You can follow him on Twitter: @SchutteCFB