STILL NO OSCARS? Retransmissions stalemate continues: Cablevision To Disney / ABC:
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NO NEWS OSCARS? Cablevision subscribers can lose WABC-TV at 12:01 am on Sunday due to a new impasse retransmissions
Now, usually, these broadcasts resolve impasses themselves when 11. But the clock is ticking, peopleThe war of words between Cablevision and Disney / ABC about whether WABC-TV last issue 12:01 AM Sunday or force viewers to miss the heated Academy Award today.
Bethpage, NY, March 5, 2010 – Cablevision Systems Corporation has continued to urge ABC to Disney to listen to government officials and consumers, and not pull the plug on WABC at midnight on Saturday, March 6, 2010, while negotiations continue. Cablevision has announced he will leave Channel WABC position open and available and that the switch is in Disney Bob Iger, president and CEO of the hands
Charles Schueler, Cablevision’s executive vice president of communications, said
We call Bob Iger to stop holding its own viewers hostage in the end its threats to pull the plug on ABC at midnight, instead of working with us to reach a fair agreement. “There’s a man who will decide whether New York gets to see the Oscars, and Disney President and CEO Bob Iger. Cablevision and Disney paid more than $ 200 million a year and are now demanding $ 40 million. The switch is in the hands of Bob Iger.
or join its Facebook group “Viewers Di Cablevision: No new charges, ABC!Cablevision customers should call on ABC, Disney to pull its programming 1-877-NO-TV-TAX calling, visiting http://www.cablevision.com/abc
Here is the last statement of WABC-TV
In response to Cablevision’s ongoing campaign to fool consumers instead of focusing on reaching a fair agreement with retransmission consent ABC7, Rebecca S. Campbell, president and general manager of WABC-TV, has released the following statement
The fact is that, again and again, Cablevision picks fights with developers, and Cablevision subscribers who have loss. The inconvenient truth about Cablevision is that the pockets of hundreds of millions of dollars in fees paid each year by conducting ABC7. Dropping our station would be the ultimate insult:. Your customers should know they have options that can change the service now and take your business to a provider that values and were not threatened with loss of programming every few months, we are free in the air.”It’s time for Cablevision to stop spinning this issue and get serious about doing the right thing by their customers.
ABC7 urges viewers to question concerned Cablevision Cablevision customers say “Losing my performances, losing my business” by calling 1-877-990-ABC7 or visiting http://www.saveABC7.com
It further recognizes the value in their own channels, like Sundance, to those charged by other cable and satellite operators to carry. It is clearly inequitable and unsustainable Cablevision to pay the fees unless popular channels and pay the fees of its own channels, while refusing to pay fair value to the citations and the majority of the channel community more involved in New YorkThis is the value of Cablevision and its customers fees to $ 18 per month for access. However, all offerings are designed to be rejected. For two years, WABC has been working in good faith to try to reach an agreement that recognizes the financial value of the station as a key resource for the community. Cablevision says it wants to resolve this issue and is not subject to its clients to the loss of ABC7.
