This Saturday, the 3 million Cablevision customers who were unable to view Fox channels because the signals had been pulled following the breakdown of a fee dispute between Cablevision and Fox, got their signals turned back on.
In essence, in the end, it looked like Cablevision took the high road on behalf of it customers and agreed to pay Fox the fees it had been demanding. Cablevision insisted that the fees were in excess of what other similar systems were paying Fox’s parent NewsCorp for similar licensing. Fox disagreed saying that Cablevision didn’t want to buy a package of services yet wanted a discount.
Sounds like negotiations arm wrestling if you ask me. But in any event, in case you missed it, I was on WOL1450 explaining to the listeners of the Tech Talk Show the background in layman’s terms on how we go to this place where this type of wrangling could result in 3 million people losing their World Series coverage.
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Jay Jay Ghatt is also editor at Techyaya.com, founder of the JayJayGhatt.com and JayJayGhatt.com where she teaches online creators how to navigate digital entrepreneurship and offers Do-It-For-You Blogging Service. She manages her lifestyle sites BellyitchBlog, Jenebaspeaks and JJBraids.com and is the founder of BlackWomenTech.com 200 Black Women in Tech On Twitter. Her biz podcast 10 Minute Podcast is available on iTunes and Player.fm. Follow her on Twitter at @Jenebaspeaks. Buy her templates over at her legal and business templates on Etsy shop!
