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ABC Pulls Channels From Cablevision
wkurzius writes "Cablevision and ABC have failed to come to an agreement after two years of negotiations, and as a result ABC has pulled all their channels from the Cablevision lineup. The dispute is over $40 million in new retransmission fees that Cablevision says they won't give to ABC. On the other side, Cablevision has been accused of not being fair to their customers despite pocketing $8 billion last year. 'The companies immediately published press releases Sunday morning, blaming each other for failing to reach a deal. Cablevision subscribers on Twitter expressed their frustration, saying they shouldn't be deprived of ABC shows, including the Oscars on Sunday, because of a multi-million-dollar deal gone awry. Competitors such as Verizon Communications took advantage of the dispute. The company launched television, newspaper, and online ads offering Cablevision customers speedy installs to subscribe to its FiOS television service along with $75 gift cards, highlighting a fierce war for subscribers in the valuable New York market.'"
We need La Carte now and right to buy the box and not re foreced to rent them $15-$20 each.
I'm willing to pay for VS just for the hockey and then drop it and I don't want to be forced buy a lot other channels to get it or be forced to pay for in the base pack for alot poor other stuff on it.
I have directv and it's better priced then comcast Chicagoland and comcast makes you get there sports pack to get speed (parts of the area) and fox moive channel hear. They also have sci-fi / Syfy in higher level then other areas as well haveing CSN+ (over flow) in a higher pack then CSN all other systems in this area have it in the same level. also CSN is alot better then VS is.