WORLD SERIES RATINGS SLUMP
November 1, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
The settlement of the Cablevision/Fox dispute over retransmission consent fees and the subsequent end of the blackout of Fox programming in the New York area did not appear to boost ratings for Fox’s coverage of the World Series. Game 3 of the series on Saturday, which saw 21-year-old Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner shut out the [...]
FOX, CABLEVISION END BLACKOUT
October 30, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Fox TV and Cablevision reached an agreement late today (Saturday) that will end the 16-day blackout of Fox television programing primarily in the New York area.
WORLD SERIES A SLOW STARTER
October 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
It may not have been on the same scale as the Texas Rangers’ loss to the San Francisco Giants Wednesday night (the Giants won 11-7), but Fox nevertheless took a beating in the first game of the World Series, which averaged 13.44 million viewers. That figure is down more than 31 percent from Game 1 [...]
CABLEVISION, FOX TAKE THEIR DISPUTE PUBLIC
October 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
As the dispute between Fox TV and Cablevision over retransmission consent fees headed into its 13th day of stalemate, there were these new developments: Cablevision, which serves some three million homes mostly around New York City, informed its subscribers via email that it would reimburse them $10.00 for the $9.95 fee that MLB.com charges to [...]
CABLEVISION, FOX ACCUSE ONE ANOTHER IN FCC FILING
October 26, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Cablevision, the cable company serving most of the New York area, has accused Fox of refusing to negotiate in good faith and has asked the FCC to order that Fox immediately restore its signal to its system and submit to binding arbitration. For its part, Fox submitted a document to the commission describing its negotiations [...]
GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT; FOX WINS THE NIGHT
October 25, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Although the telecast was blacked out in much of the New York area and parts of the Philadelphia area as well, the final game of the National League playoff between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies beat everything else on television Saturday night by a wide margin. The dispute between Fox and Cablevision [...]
FOX MAY YANK LOCAL STATIONS FROM DISH
October 22, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
New York area residents who may be considering switching to the DISH satellite service if Fox’s dispute with Cablevision continues unresolved may have to think again — as Fox on Thursday threatened to pull the signals of its local TV stations, including WNYW in New York from DISH’s menu. News Corp, Fox’s corporate parent, is [...]
FOX DARK IN NY FOR SIXTH DAY
October 21, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
There was no sign of progress Wednesday in the battle between Cablevision and Fox TV that has kept Fox television shows off millions of television sets in the New York area for more than five days. Fox said on Wednesday that it had had brief conversations with Cablevision and expected resume them today (Thursday). Some [...]
PLAYOFFS DRAW SOLID RATINGS DESPITE CABLE DISPUTE
October 21, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Despite losing many of its viewers in the New York and Philadelphia areas because of its retransmission consent dispute with Cablevision, Fox TV on Wednesday night managed to record 8.34 million viewers for its National League Championship Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies. Joining the various commercial Internet sites providing details [...]
FOX TV STILL DARK IN MOST OF NEW YORK AREA
October 19, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Talks between Cablevision and Fox TV over a new retransmission consent agreement are not following the previous scenario for such bargaining, in which last-minute deals are announced after only a few hours, at the most, of service disruption. Indeed, the two sides broke off negotiations on Monday after a three-day stalemate and scheduled no new [...]