Dish Network, Disney end Hopper lawsuit, reach landmark pact

Dish Network Corp. and The Walt Disney Co. reached a sweeping programming agreement Monday that ends a lawsuit against Dish’s commercial-skipping Hopper set-top box, and that establishes how the satellite TV company can distribute Disney channels and shows over the airwaves and online As part of the settlement, Dish agreed to limit the Hopper’s ad-skipping software for ABC broadcast shows, a capability that prompted the Disney-owned network to sue Dish in 2013...