The Lunch Break Chronicles

1. Well, technically, Scripps pulled it, though I guess people can argue Cablevision “forced” them to by not paying them more. There’s always Hulu!

   Comment by Lisa — January 5th, 2010 @ 12:20 pm

2. Well, as far as I’m concerned the buck stops with Cablevision, because they are the people I deal with. Unfortunately.

   And they are an easy target. I’m totally fed up with the company and wish I could switch to AT&T, but I can’t.

   -CP

   Comment by Chris Preovolos — January 5th, 2010 @ 12:27 pm

3. Chris, Paula Deen maybe we could do without but Rachael…No way. She is the Sandra Bullock of the kitchen. I’m guessing the sale of SlingBox will go up in the Tri-State area if the Dolan’s and Scripps don’t settle soon. Glad I have DirecTV. All we loast was Versus and who watched that anyway? I’d be happy to sling the Food Network your way…

   Comment by Bob — January 5th, 2010 @ 12:50 pm

4. Scripps pulled it because Cablevision was giving them the shaft in terms of fair market value for distributing their programming. Even though Food Network has exploded in the popularity in the past decade, Cablevision was still paying them on the original contract terms, which were far lower than they should be now. Cablevision wants to get them on the cheap, and Scripps isn’t having it. Can’t say I blame them, but Cablevision better ante up if they want people to stay with their service. I don’t know about anyone else, but News12 isn’t enough reason for me to stay.

   Comment by M — January 5th, 2010 @ 11:03 pm

5. The Dolan family,owners of Cabllevision is now giving a an entirely new meaning to the word greed. After just increasing my monthly bill more than $5. bringing my payment to over $104 for optimum cable.they have the nerve to start whining about paying Scripps 25 cents per subscriber for two of the most popular network programs. Of the hundred and whatever channels I get if I look at 10 or 12 at the most its a lot. I think it is about time we start looking at a la carte programing or at least alternative carriers.

   Comment by s v delange — January 6th, 2010 @ 10:21 am

6. This is front page news? People can no longer watch the Food Network? What a country…

   Comment by david — January 6th, 2010 @ 12:33 pm

7. Food Network pulled from at&t Uverse this morning in a rate dispute. So I guess Cablevision wasn’t the bad guy in their dispute with Food Network.

   Comment by Rob — November 5th, 2010 @ 12:16 pm

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