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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 3/4/10)
NBC: The Marriage Ref (Premiere) at 10pm
BRAVO: The Real Housewives Of New York City (Premiere) at 11pm
BRAVO: The Real Housewives Of Orange County (Finale) at 10pm
USA: Burn Notice (Finale) at 10pm

In the continued cable retransmission battle between ABC Disney/WABC-TV and Cablevision threatening to affect viewers in the Tri-State area, both parties yesterday released statements in response to their own positions. Rebecca S. Campbell, President/GM of WABC-TV (ABC7) said, “It’s time for Cablevision to stop spinning this issue and get serious about doing right by their customers. The fact is that, over and over again, Cablevision picks fights with programmers, and it is Cablevision subscribers who suffer the loss. The inconvenient truth about Cablevision is that it pockets hundreds of millions of dollars in subscriber fees each year by carrying ABC7. Dropping our station would be the latest insult. Their customers should know they have choices: They can switch service now and take their business to a provider that values them and isn’t threatening them with the loss of programming every few months, or get us free-over-the-air.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

Later yesterday afternoon, Cablevision issued this statement, “We believe Senator Kerry is correct and ABC Disney should not pull the plug and should work with us in good faith to reach an agreement that is fair for Cablevision customers. Cablevision already pays ABC Disney more than $200 million a year for their programming, and now they want $40 million in new fees, a 20 percent increase, for exactly the same channels. ABC Disney should not put viewers in the middle and instead work with us to reach agreement.”
(Source: Cynopsis)

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