Category: Blacked Out

YOUTUBE TO SINCLAIR: DROP DEAD

Sinclair may have overplayed its hand with YouTube. Customers of the streaming TV service received an email this week alerting them that Sinclair’s Fox Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) and the YES Network will no ...

CNN’S MAJOR POLL DUMPED ON CAUCUS EVE

Since 1988, the “Des Moines Register” poll’s final results have accurately predicted the outcome of the state’s Democratic caucuses. Not this year. The final Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers was ...

JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME

Just hours before a deadline which would have seen carriage of several local stations owned by Nexstar no longer be available in cities in the south and midwest, a carriage deal has been reached ...

OOPS

Thousands of Spectrum customers in Inglewood and surrounding California communities experienced a Christmas Day outage, infuriating sports fans who were eager to watch the much-anticipated Clippers-Lakers basketball game. The cable TV and internet service ...

LEAVING THE CUSTOMERS HANGING

As Sinclair and AT&T try to resolve their difference behind a veil of secrecy, presenting an uneasy truce to that portion of the public paying attention, other areas of the cable/satellite/local world are courting ...