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News Corp. pulled its New York and Philadelphia TV signals and a number of its Fox cable channels off Cablevision as of midnight Oct. 16. About 3 million Cablevision subscribers will be unable to view programming aired on Fox5 (WNYW in New York), My9 (WWOR in New York), Fox29 (WTXF in Philadelphia), Fox Business Network, NatGeoWild and Fox Deportes.
Like all retransmission spats, this one comes with dueling press releases and anguished finger pointing. It generated the usual weigh-ins from the Federal Communications Commission and Congressional leaders, bemoaning that their constituents will be deprived of critical programming—in this case, the baseball playoffs and Sunday’s Giants-Eagles game.
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