scatt
join:2005-09-07
Garden City, NY | [TV] FIOS and CABLEVISION AGREE! FSN & MSG and MORE!
»biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061116/nyth···ml?.v=64 |
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JeepMatt
Delaware Fios
Premium
join:2001-12-28
Wilmington, DE | Great news! Thanks for the link. |
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braclark
join:2006-09-01
Rowley, MA | reply to scatt
Includes:
MSG Network
FSN New York
FSN New England
FSN New England HD
AMC
WE tv
IFC
fuse
on-demand networks Mag Rack and sportskool |
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robjlevin
join:2002-10-30
Millington, NJ | Good news but why no HD for MSG and FSN NY? |
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majortom1029
join:2006-10-19
Lindenhurst, NY | reply to scatt
dont flame me for this but by making this agreement isnt this helping out your competition? |
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robjlevin
join:2002-10-30
Millington, NJ
| They can't legally withhold this programming from terrestial distributors. There are some loophole for satellite services if the channels aren't distributed via satellite.
This isn't a unique situation. Time Warner and Comcast are both programmers as well as distributors. |
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Kingscup
join:2006-03-01
united state
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said by majortom1029  :dont flame me for this but by making this agreement isnt this helping out your competition? It may not help their cable systems but it will help with the cable channels that they own. More subscribers equals more advertising revenue for the channels. As rbjlevin stated, they also cannot withhold programming from other distributors. |
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skoalbandit
join:2006-01-27
Beaumont, CA | reply to scatt
This appears to be everything Rainbow Media has except VOOM. |
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UofMiamiGrad
Premium
join:2001-02-03
Great Neck, NY
1 edit | reply to scatt
Cablevision really screwed VZ, which we all knew. No MSG-HD or FSNY-HD on FIOS TV. At least the SD channels will be available, but no HD, as CV is keeping the HD feeds away from VZ. Of course CV gives them the rights to FSNE-HD, since that's not in CV's footprint. |
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Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ
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said by skoalbandit :This appears to be everything Rainbow Media has except VOOM. Don't worry, knowing Cablevision, they will sell VOOM to FIOS before we (customers) get VOOM.
Also, VOOM is Cablevision owned, BUT, it's exclusively available to Dish Network, a much, much stronger competitor to Cablevision then FIOS at this time... |
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TurtleFan
join:2003-05-03
Wyckoff, NJ
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Heh, the more I Hear about Cablevision, from a company that broadcasts in their offices (MSG), the less and less I like them. They actually stopped the new Penn Station from being built because they wanted the space...
Not really surprised they withheld the HD stations  . |
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PoloDude
Premium,VIP
join:2006-03-29
East Northport, NY | CV also spent millions of dollars to stop the west side stadium becaus of they didn't want the compition for MSG. |
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jammmin
join:2000-12-14
Upper Marlboro, MD
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Don't forget guys Verizon had to sue Rainbow Holdings earlier this year because Rainbow had previously refused to negotiate in good faith.
In a news release earlier this year, Verizon had stated that it tried to negotiate for over 2 years with Rainbow holdings with no progress. It brought a lawsuit against the company which obviously gave them good results today.
Now, we will see how much longer Rainbow Holdings will hold on to the 15 VOOM HD channels before Verizon has to sue them again. Cablevision has more at stake with the 15 VOOM HD channels since it currently don't offer them to its own subscribers probably because it doesn't have the capacity to offer 15 more HD channels on its hybrid coax-fiber network.
Verizon fiber network can easily add the 15 VOOM channels with loads of bandwidth to spear.
Cablevision does not have to offer New 12(Neither does Timewarner's NY1 news) since these channels are not broadcast on satellite. Verizon will have to figure out its own local news solution. |
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Jon Purkey
join:2006-09-29
Washington, DC | reply to braclark
Glad to see they'll be adding IFC. Anyone know when we can expect to see the new channels? |
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UofMiamiGrad
Premium
join:2001-02-03
Great Neck, NY
| said by Jon Purkey :Glad to see they'll be adding IFC. Anyone know when we can expect to see the new channels? New channels are expected next month, with IFC being a movie package channel. RSNs no idea though, hopefully next month as well. |
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f38urry
join:2002-01-10
Spring Valley, NY
1 edit | reply to Jmartz
See: »TinyURL.com/vuy28
And:
Voom Sold
Cablevision Systems has sold its money-losing Rainbow DBS satellite television business to Echostar, reports The Dish network. Specifically, EchoStar has agreed to purchase Rainbow 1, a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) located at 61.5 degrees West Longitude, for $200 million, together with the rights to 11 DBS frequencies at that location. The satellite includes 13 frequencies, up to 12 of which can be operated in “spot beam” mode. The EchoStar III satellite also located at 61.5 degree
A sale of Rainbow DBS, which operates the Voom satellite service, was anticipated since Voom lost more than $75 million in the third quarter of last year. As of Sept. 30, only about 26,000 customers had been activated for Voom service.
Rainbow DBS was originally earmarked for a spin-off, but that plan was shelved in December after it drew the ire of many analysts and investors that viewed the unit as economically unviable and a drain on Cablevision’s cash. Last month, the board canceled plans to spin off Voom, as part of a separate risk-oriented company.
Rainbow Media recently completed a contract with Lockheed Martin for the construction of five Ka-band satellites for VOOM. These high power satellites, the first of which was to be completed and launched in 34 months, would enable VOOM to increase its channel capacity to more than 5,000 high definition channels when operating in spot beam. |
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liquidnw
join:2005-06-05
Bronx, NY | This is an article from jan of o5. This isn't new. CV still owns the programming while echostar simply bought the satellite and facilities which voom was using. |
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UofMiamiGrad
Premium
join:2001-02-03
Great Neck, NY | reply to scatt
Rainbow Media holdings owns the VOOM Network, FYI. Which liquidnw pointed out already. Channels owned are at the following link: »www.rainbow-media.com/rainbow/index.jsp |
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bulkhogan
join:2004-04-28
Brandon, FL | reply to scatt
so will fios get Howard stern OD now you think?? |
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robjlevin
join:2002-10-30
Millington, NJ
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Only time will tell, but I can't believe Verizon was willing to settle for not getting those HD feeds for MSG and FSN.
I wonder if there was an agreement to not disclose it until they actually rollout the services.
Like I said, time will tell. |
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