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| | A Fight Over Fees Unplugs 'The Golden Girls' Network - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | For its part, Lifetime, one of the more popular women's channels, said that it proposed a modest increase of only a few pennies a month per subscriber, and that EchoStar wanted fees to be cut by one-third. |
 | | After EchoStar unplugged Lifetime, the network, which is based in New York, took out full-page newspaper advertisements saying, "Dish doesn't value women," and encouraging Dish subscribers to switch to DirectTV, a rival satellite television company. |
 | | Lifetime's parents, however, could use their leverage to try to break the deadlock; Hearst owns 28 local broadcast stations and Disney owns the ABC and ESPN networks. |
| www.nytimes.com /2006/01/30/business/media/30lifetime.html?ex=1296277200&en=fcab7e71f3fee13e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (805 words) |
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