(New York Times) — OWN, Oprah Winfrey’s forthcoming cable channel, will be carried by Cablevision, the companies said Tuesday. The agreement is important because Cablevision was one of the last big gaps in OWN’s distribution footprint, and because Cablevision serves a large swath of the New York metropolitan area. The agreement came just days before […]
(Wall Street Journal) — A dispute between Cablevision and Fox over programming fees has left some three million households in the region without Fox, My9, Fox Business, and NatGeo Wild for nearly four days. That’s meant, most notably, a blackout in place of prime-time shows, baseball playoff games and a football matchup featuring the hometown New […]
(WSJ) — News Corp. and Cablevision Systems Corp. are digging in their heels in a dispute over programming fees, extending a blackout of News Corp.’s Fox network affecting about three million Cablevision homes into its fourth day. The two companies met briefly Monday morning but made “no significant progress,” Fox said. Another discussion is set for Tuesday, […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Fox television stations were pulled from subscribers of Cablevision Systems Corp. after the two companies failed to agree on subscription fees and as the dispute grows increasingly contentious. Cablevision, in a scrolling announcement on Fox 5 New York, said the decision to pull programming was made by Fox’s parent, News Corp., owner of […]
(Bloomberg) — Cablevision Systems Corp., the fifth- largest U.S. cable operator, has submitted a proposal to offer Wi-Fi on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North commuter rail trains to expand wireless coverage of New York City. The connections will let Cablevision’s high-speed Internet subscribers access the Web on the trains for free, and provide […]