When it comes to satellite and cable programming, you’d think they were dealing with terminal Mesothelioma cancer or something. Everyone gets so worked up, everyone gets angry, and everyone is looking for solution.

Maybe, just maybe, Dish and Fox, and others, could realize that there is more to life than the bottom line.

Dish Network Corp said on Friday that News Corp’s Fox Networks has demanded a higher transmission fee and blocked its access to 19 regional sports networks and other programing.

Dish Network, the No. 2 U.S. satellite operator, said Fox was demanding a new contract with an “unprecedented rate increase of more than 50 percent.”

Fox has refused Dish’s request to let customers watch the channels while negotiations continue, the company said.

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