BETHPAGE, N.Y. (AP) — Cablevision customers missed part of the Oscars this year. Are the baseball playoffs next?
Cablevision and Fox are digging in ahead of the expiration of their programming deal just after midnight Friday.
Usually, such disputes get resolved at the last minute. But if the standoff continues, some 3 million Cablevision subscribers, mostly in the New York area but also in Philadelphia, could lose access to Game 1 of baseball’s National League championship series.
Earlier this year, Cablevision customers experienced brief blackouts of ABC’s broadcast signal and missed the first 15 minutes of the Oscars.
The stations whose signals are now in jeopardy are Fox5 and My9 in New York and Fox29 in Philadelphia. Subscribers could also lose access to cable channels Fox Business Network, NatGeo Wild and Fox Deportes.
