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Looks like the stakes are getting higher as the carriage dispute between Cablevision and Tribune enters its second week. Tribune's Hartford, Conn.-based Fox affiliate, WTIC, and its flagship station WGN (based in Chicago) are both dark on Cablevision systems as of midnight Saturday. The two companies—Tribune, a station owner, and Cablevision, a distributor—are currently fighting over retrans rates for four of Tribune's stations, all of which have offered retransmitted signals gratis until now.
Tribune suggested a starting rate of about 30 cents per sub per month, according to the company (which defined it as "less than a penny a day per subscriber"), which seemed too high to Cablevision (which went with "tens of millions of dollars").
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