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Disney blacks out ABC channel for Cablevision subscribers

article published on 7 March, 2010

Disney has blacked out the broadcast channel ABC for Cablevision's 3 million subscribers, the day of the highly-anticipated Academy Awards. Cablevision says it's willing to restart negotiations with Disney, along with a third-party arbitrator, to end the spat over transmission fees. The cable company has a decent monopoly over the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and parts of NJ and Connecticut. ... [ read the full article ]

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BrookeSt
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_ 		7. March 2010 @ 16:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
At first, I was upset with ABC. Then Cablevision. I finally realized that they are both spoiled brats. Worst part is I foresee these programming wars happening more often. with the worst twist being that it is over what I ULTIMATELY HAVE TO PAY!

I think we will continue to run into these issues until we have a la carte programming. i found this writeup tucked deep in a TIme blog. this petition might work better than a bunch of bureaucrats trying to solve it.

http://money.blogs.time.com/2010/03/04/t...one-mans-dream/
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DXR88
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_ 		8. March 2010 @ 15:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
this is why lobbyists wanted DTV transition pushed so bad, Now big corporations like disney can say give us more money or will cut you off remotely.

its sad its nasty and it will only hurt subscribers in the end.
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