Cablevision, Fox End Stalemate

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Source: Broadcasting & Cable

After two weeks of increasingly nasty accusations and calls for binding arbitration and government intervention, Cablevision Systems and Fox Networks finally reached a retransmission consent agreement Saturday, ending their stalemate just in time for Game 3 of Major League baseball's World Series.

Fox pulled its three broadcast stations in New York and Philadelphia on Oct. 16 after I could not reach an agreement with the Bethpage, N.Y.-based MSO. What followed were two weeks of name-calling and accusations - Cablevision called Fox "greedy" and the programmer called Cablevision "hypocrites." In announcing the deal, Fox was uncharacteristically terse.

"Fox Networks and Cablevision announced today that they have reached an agreement in principle for a new distribution agreement to provide more than 3 million households with programming from WNYW FOX5 and WWOR My9 in New York, WTXF FOX29 in Philadelphia, and the cable channels FOX Deportes, FOX Business Network, and Nat Geo WILD," Fox said in a statement. "The signals for all stations and cable channels were restored Saturday prior to the first pitch of World Series Game 3 on FOX."

Read more: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/459204-Cablevision_Fox_End_Stalemate.php

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In those two weeks, Fox News still was able to lurk in the channel lineups of those Cablevision subscribers and still continue to poison voters' minds.

[nolabear]

1. See? The rally's working already.

[jonthebru]

2. I still think, when this happens...

They should just fight it out in a cage fight winner gets the girl , uh, or the boy.

[FarLeftFist]

3. Coincidentally right before the elections...n/t

[rocktivity]

4. Fox wanted twice what the previous deal was

I guess they finally noticed that no one was feeling sorry for them--nor do I suppose the Jets and Giants' bye weeks helped.

:evilgrin:
rocktivity