By Steve Cavendish | AT&T’s U-verse service dropped Food Network, HGTV, Cooking Channel and other Scripps networks from its lineup Friday morning after the two sides could not reach a carriage agreement.

The channels were immediately replaced on thousands of U-verse customers’ receivers in the Chicago area.

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