Going dark on Cablevision’s systems last week were Tribune’s WPIX-TV...
Going dark on Cablevision’s systems last week were Tribune’s WPIX-TV New York, WPHL-TV Philadelphia, WCCT-TV Hartford and KWGN-TV Denver, the companies said. Tribune blamed Cablevision for dropping its stations’ signals during retransmission consent negotiations. “Tribune was willing to provide Cablevision…
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subscribers access to the valuable programming on these stations while working toward a new agreement,” the broadcaster said. “Tribune never made any threat to withdraw these stations or demand that Cablevision remove them.” But Cablevision said Tribune was at fault. “A major barrier to an agreement is Cablevision’s strongly-held view that Tribune is attempting to illegally tie the carriage of its Fox affiliate in Hartford to WPIX and other less popular Tribune-owned channels,” a Cablevision spokesman said. “We are pursuing both legal and regulatory options to stop Tribune’s illegal tying and will continue to hold the line on increasing programming costs."