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Air Ball For New York Knicks Fans As MSG Networks Go Dark On Optimum; Is Carriage Fight Tipoff To Bankruptcy?
Many New York Knicks and Rangers fans have lost access to local team broadcasts since New Year's Day due to a carriage fight between MSG Networks and Optimum.
The teams’ regional sports outlet, MSG Networks, went dark on Altice USA’s Optimum pay-TV systems at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, leaving 2.1 million subscribers without access to game broadcasts. Other companies in its portfolio also run venues like the Sphere in Las Vegas and New York’s Beacon Theatre and Radio City Music Hall, as well as cable and streaming programmer AMC Networks. Altice also stands to lose money as subscribers cancel their TV service, but the company has joined pay-TV peers like Charter, Cox and others in emphasizing the better economics of broadband and wireless.
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