The deal is over Dish's Hopper. It allows you to skip commercials. Gannett which broadcasts on channel 9 and 20 wants Dish to run the commercials cause Gannett gets paid to do so.

Dish wants to offer Gannett "X" number of dollars to have the user skip commercials. They can't agree on that number.

Personally I hate Dish. Worked in their IT dept. A TOTAL sweatshop. Worse place I've ever worked as a professional.