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pute with the local network affiliate.
• The spat won't affect off-air customers of KTTW-TV in Sioux Falls and those who receive Fox through another provider. But for Dish viewers, Fox shows will be pulled from the schedule effective at midnight, Ed Hoffman, general manager of KTTW-TV, said Tuesday.
• "Our goal is not to take programming away from our viewers," he said. "We reached a point under their terms that nothing was negotiable. My only goal always has and will be is that whatever we do is fair and equitable."
• Englewood, Colo.-based Dish Network Corp. said KTTW wants more than seven times more from Dish for the same content and also refused to keep Fox on until the disagreement is resolved.
• "Dish offered an extension to avoid any disruption to viewers, but unfortunately that offer was rejected. We remain ready to negotiate around the clock to come to a fair deal," said Sruta Vootukuru, director of programming.
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40 AGs urge tight regulation of e-cigarettes
MARK PRATT, Associated Press
• BOSTON (AP) -- Forty attorneys general sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday urging the agency to meet its own deadline and regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way it regulates tobacco products.
• The letter, co-sponsored by Massachusetts Attorney Martha Coakley and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, says e-cigarettes are being marketed to children through cartoon-like advertising characters and by offering fruit and candy flavors, much like cigarettes were once marketed to hook new smokers.
• At the same time, e-cigarettes are becoming more affordable and more widely available as the use of regular cigarettes decline as they become more expensive and less socially acceptable.
• "Unlike traditional tobacco products, there are no federal age restrictions that would prevent children from obtaining e-cigarettes, nor are there any advertising restrictions," DeWine wrote.
• Electronic cigarettes are metal or plastic battery-powered devices resembling traditional cigarettes that heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating vapor that users inhale. Users get nicotine without the chemicals, tar or odor of regular cigarettes.
• E-cigarettes are being advertised during prime-time television hours at a time when many children are watching, according to the letter, which has led a surge in (Continued on page 23)
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