Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterDan Abrams’ true-crime channel Law & Crime has struck a carriage deal with Dish Network, Variety has learned exclusively.Live trial and 24/7 true-crime network Law & Crime, which recently aired national coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the trial of Brett Hankison, a former police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, has now launched on Dish and is available to customers on Channel 252.
The new distribution pact between Law & Crime and Dish increases the channel’s reach to more than 27 million households across the U.S., the Bahamas and Virgin Islands.“We’ve had a deal with Sling for a number of years now and have always been aspiring to also be included in Dish,” Law & Crime founder, ABC News chief legal affairs anchor and NewsNation host Abrams told Variety. “And so this has been a number-of-years effort to add Dish to our roster of partners.
We’re thrilled that it finally has come to fruition. This now brings our total reach to over 27 million cable households, which, in our view, puts us in the full cable network category, in addition to being on all the major OTT platforms: Sling, YouTube TV, Fubo, Roku, Philo, Samsung TV, etc.” He continued: “But there still are advantages to being on classic cable, both from an advertising and a marketing perspective.
So we’re really excited to be on a major provider like Dish now. And the other big provider that we have a deal with is Verizon.
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