Fox vs. Cablevision

[WRJames]

It's like the historic battles of evil vs. evil -- Hitler vs. Stalin, Iran vs. Iraq, Godzilla vs. Mothra.

For those of you outside New York, Fox has pulled its broadcast channels off of Cablevision -- no NFC football, no NLCS! Maybe no World Series! It's the end of civilization as we know it.

Of course, these are broadcast channels and you can just put up an antenna and get them for free. But Fox is asking at least $70 per customer to keep them on the cable feed.

 

[Handley_Page]

There are times (like this) that I am delighted with our 5 analogue channels (soon to go digital), all on one aerial.

 

[WRJames]

There are times (like this) that I am delighted with our 5 analogue channels (soon to go digital), all on one aerial.

We've gone all digital broadcast in the US. The cable companies are still converting to analog for the old sets, but Cablevision is stopping that for its Long Island customers, so the end is in sight.

What is baffling is that Fox wants to charge (a lot, $150 million) for its two broadcast channels. If you have an HD tv (I have one), you can get these channels over the air, in beautiful HD.

 

[michchick98]

It's like the historic battles of evil vs. evil -- Hitler vs. Stalin, Iran vs. Iraq, Godzilla vs. Mothra.

For those of you outside New York, Fox has pulled its broadcast channels off of Cablevision -- no NFC football, no NLCS! Maybe no World Series! It's the end of civilization as we know it.

Of course, these are broadcast channels and you can just put up an antenna and get them for free. But Fox is asking at least $70 per customer to keep them on the cable feed.

I heard about that. Fortunately, I don't live in New York, I don't watch Fox (ecept for one show which I can watch online or OnDemand too), and I don't have Cablevision.

AT&T rocks. Too bad everyone can't get it. Speaking as a person who has had cable and satellite and...I guess AT&T is fiber optic...I'd opt for AT&T or similar any day. No problems whatsoever in over a year of service (meaning no outages and no downtime) and reasonable prices.

The situation with Cablevision does suck for Fox viewers though.

 

[WRJames]

I was listening to a Yankees game in the car last night and Fox was running an ad slamming Cablevision. Of course, Cablevision has replaced its Fox feeds with updates slamming Fox. This has gone on for almost a week now.

I can watch Fox using antenna feed -- these are two broadcast channels we're talking about. My mother in law had this little indoor antenna for an fm radio that has a coax fitting on the end -- it is working great so far. But of course Fox may cut its broadcast signal strength if word gets around. That's how nasty this is. Fox has already shut off Cablevision ISP customers from its online tv offerings.

Regretably, Fox news is still on Cablevision.