Time Warner’s Turner punched back in its dispute with Dish Network in the former company’s Wednesday conference call. A day earlier, the latter company started the fight on its own earnings call.
“We disagreed with virtually everything [Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen] said as it related to the importance of our product, as it related to his platform,” Turner Broadcasting CEO John Martin began on Wednesday.
“We were both disappointed in the very antagonistic and aggressive nature of his comments yesterday,” he continued. “And we’re disappointed particularly given the fact that Dish had previously agreed to our networks’ rates and our carriage proposals weeks ago.”