Cablevision On Air Slam To Newscorp/Fox TV

[Grassy Knoll]

Run time: 03:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISQM2ZX4VYw   Posted on YouTube: October 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: paulboat67 Views on YouTube: 143   Posted on DU: October 16, 2010 By DU Member: Grassy Knoll Views on DU: 2944

 

[BootinUp]

1. "...in an act of corporate greed..." ROFL

things are getting nasty, call in the arbitrators!

[virgogal]

2. One corporation bashing another corporation. Yaaaawn.

[SemperEadem]

28. exactly. It's not as if the Dolan Brothers are broke.

[zehnkatzen]

3. Now that they're arguing, they need your support. Hmmm.

Has anyone else noticed that you're just a profit center until the big boys start arguing over whether their going to be making appalling profits rather than obscene profits?

Then we, the little fellah who just wants to pay for a service, is the salt of the earth and the most important person in the world to them.

Well, until arbitration goes through.

Then, it's going to go right back to "pay up, Mac".

Never a better time to quit regular television watching. We get our programs over-the-air and I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be any more happy if we were paying a monthly bill for it. When "the cable" first started going into homes, did you notice that the primary draw was no commercial breaks? There was a time when AMC didn't have commercials! Now, unless it's one of the big premium movie services, you get as many commercials crammed down your gullet as broadcast.

Doesn't seem a fair deal to me.

Your money's better spent on art supplies than a pay TV bill.

[AlbertCat]

6. you get as many commercials crammed down your gullet as broadcast.

More! Since they flash commercials and logos all over the bottom of the screen during shows. Forget it if it's a subtitled movie. I remember being in a hotel on a rainy Sunday watching a James Bond marathon, and this babe kept swooping in on a rope. It was an ad for some show coming up the next week.... but you couldn't tell...half the time you were thinking:" is this some Bond girl coming to assassinate somebody?... oh wait... it's a friggin ad!"


I mainly just use my TV as a monitor for my DVD player. Just watched all of the miniseries "Traffik" again.

[Puppyjive]

4. Newscorp wants control of the free world

Wish they would pull the plug on FAUX News

[Thornleylv]

8. thats the point

They did. One small step

[SnakeEyes]

16. No they didn't

This is over the Fox broadcast stations. Fox News is a cable channel and is part of a separate contract.

[moonbatmax]

5. Soooo, if Cablevision doesn't pony up...

...millions of subscribers won't get their daily Fox fix?

I'm sorry... was there a problem, here?

[NYMdaveNYI]

37. Not the same Faux News. Fox 5 WNYW is actually pretty good....

It’s the local news for the NYC/Metro Area.

Very watchable.

And moments like this happen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss8LDBNcsWc&feature=related

Could care less about MY9.

And dont think for a minute Cablevision is the victim here. They pulled the same exact shit on Dish Network over the MSG channels.

[AlbertCat]

7. Time to break them all up.... like Ma Bell.

[zbdent]

32. I wonder where the cable industry would be today had they not utilized

the socialist infrastructure (roads, telephone poles, etc.) that the government (ma bell, WPA, etc.) had put into place before?

(Oh, and don't forget, NASA launching their satellites and maintaining safe distances of stuff floating around up there ...)

[TheEuclideanOne]

9. They own two news stations and two newspapers in a local area

Give them everything they want and legally should not have and they still turned on you? How unpredictable. (:sarcasm:) Apparently somebody forgot the rules on negotiating with terrorists.

[greiner3]

10. Damn;

Having to choose cablevision, even if it is over fox.

[Celtic Merlin]

11. Nothing STINGS like the FACTS.

Rupert Murdoch wants more and more $$$ out of us so he can continue to support the Republicans with more millions of dollars.

I hope that NOBODY wants to pay him for his nasty programming. He can pack up his shit and go back to Australia - broke.

Celtic Merlin
Carlinist

[femrap]

20. Let's strip him of the US citizenship

that he purchased and send Murdoch's ugly ass back to Downunder...after we extort a huge fine for the inconvenience.

All I watch on Fox is 'Glee' but I can get it on line....so I guess he's just punishing people who can't afford a computer and internet service.

Amazing....from $70 million to $150 million. Shit.

[DemocraticPilgrim]

12. Great news.

[Paula Sims]

13. Same situation going on with DishNetwork

We dropped Direct TV because they were just another conservative arm and went with Dish. We've been with them for YEARs and we're happy. Today before the Bear's game they said that in addition to Fox Channel movies, the local Fox channels may be dropped. Damn. Looks like we're going to have to get a box and an areal antenna.

[NYMdaveNYI]

25. Yea, Cablevision isn’t so innocent here either.

CABLEVISION wanted a rate hike for Dish to continue to carry two of their channels, MSG and MSG+, two sports channels here in NY that carry the Islanders, Rangers, Devils, and Knicks games,

Dish said “fuck off”, and Cablevision pulled them. So now, since I have Dish, I can’t watch any of mah sports. GAY.

Switching to iO, promptly.

[amyrose2712]

34. You are moving to Jupiters volcanic moon?

[NYMdaveNYI]

36. ROFL. iO is Cablevision’s TV service...

Maybe on Io, there’d be less of this bullshit.

[Guilded Lilly]

14. And the dogs begin to eat the dogs. n/t

[Plucketeer]

15. Too bad we can't convince everyone

to send the amount they spend monthly (on cable and satellite) to PBS. But everyone's SO addickted to their stupid sports and dunce-vision dramas that smarts don't have a chance.

This dust-up is just the beginning of Murdick and Co. blatantly bilking the minions for funds to buy our government with.

[amyrose2712]

18. Sometimes the brain needs a break. Nothing wrong with

watching a bit of fiction. Problem is they are keeping FOX NEWS! Taking off shows like the Simpsons, Family Guy, House....I still say fu@k em.I'll fine those shows the same way I did without cable.

[teknomanzer]

21. Forget TV -- read a book.

or do something constructive -- play an instrument or get a hobby. TV makes zombies. I don't have cable and I don't miss it. 400 channels of mind numbing bullshit.

[amyrose2712]

22. I read everyday. Judge much? I disagree I think that some

tv/movies/theater has value.(It has throughout history) I agree most of it is shit. Even the so-called "educational" stuff. But there are a few choice shows that have excellent character and plot development. So I don't generalize. And I definitely need my sports. But don't assume that becasue someone watches a bit of tv that they are dull minded zombies. I think I have enough control not to become a tvpodperson.

[peacetalksforall]

24. PBS? I know they went Republican at the same time as NPR. Remember

Jesse Helms leading the way - Dan Burton right behind him and used as a key spokesperson along with many others including Strom Thurmond - they demanded that the government not pay anymore to support them because who knows - they were too liberal or something. Whatever they did worked.

NPR - who I always regarded as neutral went virally Republican and Baron in all their news slant and their news tlakers and positions. I can't bear to listen them the news and yet I adore their weekend programs, This American Life, Prairie Home Companion, Krista Tippett, American Routes, etc. It's like having a gun pointed at you with nice music in the background. The Republicans and the Barons won - PBS and NPR - twpo more outlets - the march to 1984.

[amyrose2712]

33. Pretty sure one of their major funders is Exxon/Mobil

[Plucketeer]

35. Maybe they DO slant to the right.

It's the only radio outlet I listen to - and listen to alot. I don't feel any conservative overtones at all. What I do hear is the only programs on the dial for folks with a brain. And locally, the only outlet for classical music and programs about theater and jazz.

[peacetalksforall]

39. I've read comments on DU that are exactly the same as yours. Our sensitivites are so different.

They repulse me at times. It's sprinkled throughout everything that has something to do with news. I want to run to my computer to document what I heard and usually I'm driving. By the time I get to the computer, I can't quite remember all the context and how it was slipped in. Then there are the various blunt ones - Juan Williams, Neil Cohen, Myra Liason (I never can remember hte spelling - and I loathe looking it up). Plus others. There snide remarks about Obama are really hard to take.

[amyrose2712]

17. My bf just saw an ad on Comcast threatening us...

the jist was - Go ahead and try to find another provider that will offer you ...

[JDPriestly]

19. Murdoch is 79. I wonder if the feeding frenzy for his assets and for

control of Fox News post-Murdoch is already beginning.

I wonder also how the sports teams feel about the reduction in the number of viewers watching them on cable TV. Fox could find itself facing competition from other sports networks for transmission of some of its biggest, most popular shows if it continues to be so greedy.

Of course, Fox wants to start charging per view on the internet for its programming. I for one will not be paying.

[perdita9]

23. Watch PBS

You'll be doing your mind a favor. And PBS isn't run by greedy corporate pirates.

[NYMdaveNYI]

26. Funny how Cablevision just did the SAME thing to Dish Ntwk over MSG..... OOOH THE IRONY!! nt

[Historic NY]

27. Wish it was my cable company.

[DWinNJ]

29. I think it’s hysterical

I think it’s hysterical that they got an 877 phone number
“NO TV TAX”
If there is one thing that hits Newscorp where they live is accusing them of raising taxes.

[Subdivisions]

30. As if Cablevision are saints. Pfffft! One greedy corporation crying foul on

another greedy corporation...

Give me a fucking break.

[Charleston Chew]

31. THE CORPORATION [17/23] Unsettling Accounts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw

Journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were fired by the Fox News television station they work for after refusing to change their investigative report on Posilac, a Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH) made by Monsanto. Their research documents potential health and safety problems of drinking milk treated with the synthetic hormone, but threatened with legal action from Monsanto, Fox wants the negative effects played down. The court eventually throws out Akre's whistle blower lawsuit after deciding that the media is allowed to lie.

[redirish28]

38. BRAVO to Cablevision giving the truth to the customer... now image this

happening on the world Wide Web

[neobeetle]

40. I'm with Cablevision on this...

We all know what a bastard Rupert can be, let's face it. Obviously their viewers are last on the priority list since they shut the signal down (not CV). Doing this during the playoffs was low enough, my friend who is CV subscribers can't even view past episodes on the FOX website, it redirects to FOX's anti-cablevision site. A bit obvious?

[itcfish]

41. Cablevision

is just as bad. They used these same tactics not too long ago with another corporation. It's cheaper to get consumers to fight their battles than lawyers.

[NYMdaveNYI]

42. Yup. Dish....

Cablevision just recently screwed me over by blocking Dish’s access to MSG and MSG+


now, i cant watch the Islanders, Rangers, Devils or Knicks