1/6/2010
Good news for those of you who wanted to catch the much-hyped “Iron Chef America: Super Chef Battle” but couldn’t after the Food Network was yanked from Cablevision subscribers this week.
“Food Network’s “Iron Chef America: Super Chef Battle,” featuring a guest
appearance by First Lady Michelle Obama, will run Sunday evening on Tribune
Co.’s WPIX in New York, and WTXX in Hartford, Conn.”
Read more about the dispute over rates in the Advocate’s story by Amanda Cuda: here.
According to The Journal, viewers will not only see the Iron Chef’s battle it out in Kitchen Stadium, but also see Scripps argue their case in the court of public opinion:
“The broadcast will be accompanied by a new marketing push about the
dispute, featuring Scripps’s on-air hosts, the latest in a series of salvos
from each side in the programming dispute. Cablevision, for its part,
launched an advertisement on its local cable systems Tuesday that named
Scripps’s chief executive, Ken Lowe, and described Scripps’s actions as a
“blatant attempt to hold viewers hostage while they demand a $20 million
rate increase” annually.”
Stay tuned.
–CP
