Dish Drops AMC Just Before 'Breaking Bad' Season Premiere

Sun, 07/01/2012 - 15:43 EDT - Forbes.com - Top Stories

Dish Network has dropped AMC, just a couple of weeks before its ratings behemoth Breaking Bad premieres its fifth season. This means about fourteen million homes - including that of yours truly - could lose access to some of the best original series to hit cable in years, like Bad, The Walking Dead, Hell On ...

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