As the deadline hit for the threatened blackout, CBS remained on the air Thursday evening.
“CBS remains on the air with Dish while negotiations progress into the evening,” the network said in a statement.
It announced earlier this week that if they didn’t resolve a deal before Thursday evening at 7 p.m. ET, the broadcast network was prepared to go dark for Dish subscribers. The companies agreed in November to an extension of negotiations, but a deal has not yet been worked out.
“In the last few weeks, we have granted two extensions, in the hopes that this would give both parties sufficient time to come to a resolution. The second extension, which protected Dish subscribers’ programming over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, was the final one,” CBS said in a statement issued Tuesday.
“We would very much like to avoid going dark, thereby joining the more than 120 stations Dish has dropped since 2013 alone,” the broadcast company continued. “Unless agreements are reached, however, our viewers should be prepared to lose CBS from their Dish systems on Thursday evening at 7:00 PM/ET.”
Previously, CBS accused Dish Network of “dragging its feet.”
CBS and Dish executives were in discussion on Thursday, with a game time decision expected for viewers.