in 2009, c-span was pulled from sky angel after being on its iptv service for 2 days. in november 2012, sky angel filed an antitrust lawsuit against the network claiming that its owners (a consortium of major television providers) pulled its programming from sky angel to put the service at a disadvantage against its conventional rivals. the court dismissed the case without prejudice, believing that sky angel's case did not have enough evidence to justify its claims that c-span's owners were trying to enforce a monopoly position. c-span denied sky angel's arguments, and claimed the removal was for contractual reasons relating to iptv. sky angel, in its filing with the court, showed that cspan was already streaming its channels over the web to the public free of charge. in june 2013, the company subsequently filed a second antitrust suit. the claims were rejected, with the court arguing once again that sky angel had produced no actual evidence of collusion among the c-span consortium.