Time Warner Cable Pulls Plug on MSG

If not your cable/satellite bills will end up being 200-300-400 dollars a month if this keeps going this way every couple years for the same channels.

No they won't. People will cut the cord long before those prices are the norm. If they continue to drive the prices higher to that point the whole industry will collapse in on itself.

My Directv bill has gone up very little in two years. Last year, because I am on the Everything Plan it didn't go up. However DVR fee did. Now it will go up $5 this year. Yeah its $60 but I can deal with it.

could be an old plan that is no longer offered. also if you call in and ask for a "promo" they'll give you a plan that isn't shown online that saves $$$ and still gives you what you want.

People need to write their elected representatives and try to get these broadcasters regulated. If not your cable/satellite bills will end up being 200-300-400 dollars a month if this keeps going this way every couple years for the same channels.

Regulation keep those utilities affordable and inline with the cost to produce such services.

I would point out that the large jump in Maryland electric prices a few years ago was due to electric deregulation, not regulation.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_E···gulation

Prices were locked at a fixed point for several years, after which the rate lock was removed, allowing companies to charge whatever they wanted. That is, by very definition, deregulation.

How does "locking a price" equal "deregulation?" In this situation, the government is telling a company that it must charge $X for a product. That is the quintessential definition of regulation.

When the "regulated" period ended, the prices adjusted to market rate, a "deregulated" price, which was considerably higher than what you had been paying.

I think MSG is full of crap. Weather it is a small local broadcaster or a larger network they are all raising prices at an alarming rate and the cable/satellite companies are really having no choice but to pay them.

Everyone complains about their cable/satellite bills going up constantly for the same channels but when the broadcasters decide to raise rates 53% of is certainly difficult for the cable/satellite companies to no raise rates.

Take DirecTV for instance, recently with the FOX/News Corp dispute the pricing of the contract to carry many FOX/News Corp channels was raised nearly 47%. That means rather then paying 1 BILLION for the channels DirecTV had to pay 1.4 Billion for the *SAME CHANNELS* they always had.

Now taking a 400 million dollar hit isnt going to happen. You know that usually gets passed on to the customers.

People need to write their elected representatives and try to get these broadcasters regulated. If not your cable/satellite bills will end up being 200-300-400 dollars a month if this keeps going this way every couple years for the same channels.

So it is not the Cable/Satellite companies just deciding that it would be a good time to raise your rates every so often just to make more money, it is the broadcasters raising rates multiple times more then inflation.

As for ala carte that will never happen either unless you write elected officials. The cable/satellite companies have to buy their channels in bundles just like the consumer does. It is take it all or none when it comes to broadcaster offerings.

The FCC and the courts could force Cablevision to provide MSG to other cable companies & telcos, but ultimately they can't set the price. Cablevision has ZERO incentive to negotiate to a lower price considering they have no desire to provide the service at all. What will Verizon & AT&T do when it is their turn to pay higher prices?

Cable companies should go ala carte in retaliation. Make it a condition of sale, then the customer can choose to pay.

The FCC and the courts could force Cablevision to provide MSG to other cable companies & telcos, but ultimately they can't set the price. Cablevision has ZERO incentive to negotiate to a lower price considering they have no desire to provide the service at all. What will Verizon & AT&T do when it is their turn to pay higher prices?

We just need a dumb pipe that moves the entire equation to OTT video. This would eliminate the fight with the middle man and let MSG deal directly with the consumer. If they raise the rates and consumers find the content has value, so be it. Market-driven decisions are what this great nation cherishes. Let's get back to the basics and stop writing laws and regulations that "protect" dead business models.

So those of us who don't live in Jersey or New York still don't know what MSG is except for a food flavorant that restaurants deny using. Some sort of sports network, I think, but don't really know.