Dish subscribers have been without Fox's regional sports networks, FX, and the National Geographic Channel for a month (Fox had threatened to pull the plug on its local stations, including KTTV Channel 11 and KCOP Channel 13). Roughly 600,000 homes in the L.A. area have been affected by the dispute. From the LAT:
The hang-up during the monthlong stalemate was payment for the expensive sports channels and whether Dish would make them available to all of its subscribers. The Fox cable sports channels run as much as $4 per month per subscriber, about four times the cost of an entertainment channel like TNT.
Still unresolved is Fox's stalemate with Cablevision, which has left more than 3 million views in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey without the World Series and NFL football.