Is it legal for a cable company to reroute DishNetwork?

Question

Our local cable company is small and... well... not many people like them. They are rerouting a DishNetwork signal to everyone. The TV picks up like a cable would, but if there is a storm etc it can knock the dish (where ever it is) out of alignment and the tv will put up DishNetwork's lost satellite signal message. When it comes back the Dishnetwork bar across the top appears showing channel/show etc. There are dishnetwork commercials too saying to order this channel call [number] and it's channel... 555 or something, whatever it is for dishnetwork.

Answer 1

Your local Cable company is a subscriber to Dish Network and should have an agreement with Dish to relay some channels to them. Dish should receive a fraction from sales earned by the Cable company. Or...they are Dish itself just doing some traditional business tactics...maybe a sister company of Dish or partly owned by Dish.

Local cable stations now are getting bankrupt. Some national companies may offer underground solutions. One, is for the local cable to hook up with third parties like Dish, instead of directly buying it from say..disney,ESPN..etc. and basically will cost higher. Its just like we will pay here if we watch a special sports event, while other countries will just tune to local TV stations and they are also watching same event because their local TV station is buying those rights to broadcast such shows from here.

And yes, it is legal assuming they have an agreement in parallel with the law.