WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network are no longer being carried on Dish Network after the companies failed to agree on the terms of a new distribution pact.

Dish Network Corp. DISH, -3.41% has been negotiating with the two Fox channels for the past several weeks, as The Wall Street Journal reported early Sunday. In a statement on Saturday, Englewood-Colo.-based Dish said Fox blacked out the two news channels in an attempt to increase fees for other sports and entertainment channels. The Fox channels’ parent company is 21st Century Fox Inc. FOX, -3.96%

Warren Schlicting, Dish’s senior vice president of programming, said in a statement: “It’s like we’re about to close on a house and the Realtor is trying to make us buy a new car as well.” He added: “Fox blacked out two of its news channels, using them as leverage to triple rates on sports and entertainment channels that are not in this contract.”

Tim Carry, executive vice president of distribution at Fox News Channel, countered in a statement that Dish “prematurely ceased distribution of Fox News in an attempt to intimidate and sway our negotiations.

“It is unfortunate that millions of Fox News viewers on Dish were used as pawns by their provider. Hopefully they will vote with their hard-earned money and seek another one of our other valued distributors immediately.”

Dish has had several fights with programmers recently, as the Journal reports. For example, earlier this month, CBS Corp. channels briefly went dark on Dish until the companies signed a new contract.

Until last year, 21st Century Fox and News Corp., the parent of MarketWatch and The Wall Street Journal, were part of the same company. They now are separate entities.