Scripps pulls channels from Cablevision

Haha! From the looks of this article is apparent that Cablevision isn't all that concerned with missing Scripps' content.

Originally posted by 5fdpfan:

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Haha! From the looks of this article is apparent that Cablevision isn't all that concerned with missing Scripps' content.

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Cablevision is running a monopoly in the New York/New Jersey area and the real losers are we the people who are paying a lot each month to get crappy customer service and the ''free'' HD channels that are no more than standard definition channels streched out all over my tv screen, you could get a better picture if you plug a pair of regular rabbit ears than getting a hd cable box from cablevision in the NY/NJ area i.e. univision, bravo, a&e

Originally posted by oscarin:

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Cablevision is running a monopoly in the New York/New Jersey area and the real losers are we the people who are paying a lot each month to get crappy customer service and the ''free'' HD channels that are no more than standard definition channels streched out all over my tv screen, you could get a better picture if you plug a pair of regular rabbit ears than getting a hd cable box from cablevision in the NY/NJ area i.e. univision, bravo, a&e

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I can't complain about the service of Cablevision in the upper NY area. Just the price now. I enjoyed the 3 for $100 package deal for a year and was told that the price will go up slightly after the promotion. Mine was jacked up to $180/month. On top of that, on the morning of January 1st, I go to turn on the Food Network with my cup of coffee (which is first the channel that I go to about 85% of the time), and I am met with that message screen. I was prety pissed. Needless to say, I am looking for an alternative package. Maybe keep my internet through them, but cancel cable TV and go to Dish for basic TV. See what packages I can mix and match to get the total below $180/month.

I would've ate the extra $$$ per month if it weren't for their attitude about cancelling Skripps programming. I enjoy my Boost internet plan, HD programming and use of my DVR. I just feel it's a publicity stunt to open the doors to another rate hike. Their retention and sales department did tell me that if I presented them with a lower offer from Frontier, that they will negotiate the price I pay. We'll see.

Yeah...but the problem is that if they don't make a stand at least sometimes your bills just creep up and up. One of the worst offenders is ESPN in this regard. They tell cable companies that they have to buy ALL their ESPN channels if they just want standard ESPN. So you end up paying for all the various flavors of ESPN even if you didn't want ESPN in the first place.

This is a grab for those channels to try and pull more money from you via your cable provider.

The real irony here is that Scripps isn't in financial trouble, despite what Cablevision tries to claim in their bogus PR response. Cablevision is the one in financial trouble, which is why they keep jacking up their rates. You ever see those AT&T commercials where they talk about how cable has doubled their rates in the past decade? Well one of those major offending cable companies is Cablevision, who thinks that they can make up for losing award winning programming by simply making their subscribers pay more and give them less. Scripps didn't lose out in this move, Cablevision did. Watch how many customers they lose to satellite TV in this year alone. And the sad part about that is satellite TV is totally worthless to begin with, but as long as groups like Cablevision keep pulling brainless stunts like these and the subscribers don't call them to the mat for it, it'll just keep happening. And they wonder why they only have 3.1 million subscribers.

The problem is the food network is one of the top 10 channels viewed on the cablevision system and they get compensation in the bottom 10% of all the channels on cablevision. They are asking a for a rate of a bit under 1.00 per user as a compensation fee and cablevision refuses to pay it. I don't know what the problem is with this, it is a good channel and since almost every month I find my cablevision bill going up 1 dollar this month 2 dollars the next month each and every month. They should just pay them the fee and lets get on with our lives.

Just dropped Cablevision's TV and VOIP plan. No point in making idle threats. They would not extend our promotion or offer any discount. They said they couldn't until at least 6 months passed from our old promotion, and even that is not certain. And we caught our sales rep in a lie. He stopped returning our calls and directed us to a department that doesn't exist. $180/month is not going to happen. And I can just see it going up again once they "work out a dedal" with Scripps. Going back to Dish for the basic TV plan.