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Fox-Cablevision dispute resolved: World Series blackout ended
The New York Cablevision subscribers' long World Series-less nightmare has ended ... well, except for maybe fearing Brian Wilson's beard.The cable operator has finally reached an agreement with FOX Networks "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."
The signals for all the channels were restored Saturday in time for the beginning of World Series Game 3 on FOX. Fans were able to watch the first pitch. Ah but did they catch Justin Bieber's pre-game debut of his new video for "Never Say Never"?
Terms of the new distribution agreement were not disclosed.
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Just what sports fans want to see. A stupid freaking Justin Bieber video. Justin Bieber and the World Series go together like a peanut butter and tar sandwich.
Im just glad to have Fx back on here. Dish and fox still can suck it though lol
Pretty sure most baseball fans dont even know who justin beiber is, let alone care about his song. also pretty sure a bunch of teenage girls are not watching the baseball game on saturday night so who cares who saw him, not I
If the Fox dispute has been resolved for days
I'm just happy that I'll be able to watch "BONES" on Thursday night.
Networks do NOT have the right to charge cable companies for carriage of free over-the-air broadcasts. If Disney, News Corp, Viacom or Universal don't like this fact they are welcome to secede the PUBLIC airwaves to someone who can manage to put programming on them without charging the public extra for the privilege.
I am not sure when this fact was changed, probably during the last revision to the law in 1994, but it is simply wrong. Cablevision should have taken this issue to the supreme court, but of course, they are planning to do the same thing when their acquisition of NBC Universal is finalized.
Sad state of affair things are in. I wish that people had the strength of will to take back what they own, but instead they sit there cowering from what appears to be "socialism" in favour of having a few corporations dominating every aspect of their lives and charging them for it.