MSG HD Update on Verizon FIOS TV

[billymets]

http://www.multichannel.com/article/231696-MSG_Speculation_Grows.php  CABLEVISION Set to Spin off MSG, Knicks, Rangers, MSG Network, MSG Arena, Liberty, Radio City, FUSE and Beacon Theatre.

MSG HD / MSG + HD might actually happen before September 2009-Winter 2010 NHL and NBA Seasons

[matcarl]

How could you give dates like that when nothing has been done? They are just thinking about spinning it off, throwing ideas around. Where are you getting September 2009???? 

[billymets]

I am not pinning September 2009, I only said that because thats the start of the season. I am also saying that it might happen , Not saying it will happen. Maybe the spinoff wont happen at all, who knows .

[Greg26001]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124170459286895957.html

Sounds like shareholders are pressing Dolan to cut the cable operations side from the Cablevision entertainment/sports division.  So that could, theoretically take Dolan out of the Cable providing busines.  If Rainbow Media and MSG are truly separated from Cablevision (which could get bought up by something like Time Warner Cable), then there would be no legitimate reason to keep the HD channels or even News 12 off FIOS. 

The problem is that James Dolan is frequently proposing these things, only to renege later on.  The shareholders of Cablevision want him out as badly as everyone else.

Message Edited by Greg2600 on 05-08-2009 09:10 AM

[billymets]

http://www.multichannel.com/article/231962-Cablevision_MSG_Other_Business_Units_Not_For_Sale.php

[billymets]

For the Techman, Verizon Employees , FIOS Solution Centers, what can you tell us, what you know about MSG HD , MSG + HD on FIOS < now that this hope of MSG HD is dashed now that the Spinoff is not happening

thanks

[CharlesH]

We know as much as you do lol

[billymets]

Thanks for your update 

[Greg26001]

http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2009/verizon-asks-fcc-to-prevent.html

"Verizon Asks FCC to Prevent Cable Companies From Blocking Access to Regional Sports Programming"

Finally Verizon has taken action to gain access to HD sports programming from Cablevision!

Message Edited by Greg2600 on 05-28-2009 01:34 PM

[billymets]

About time, why wait 11 months to say somethin when on 7/25/08 it was announced that a FCC Complaint was filed, but actually it was done today . Get these on and my Staten Island Local Programming / FIOS1 (NY1) and I will be back to Verizon and Verizon Wireless and One Bill and wont have to wait a year or more for Time Warner's Cell phone , thats if it doesnt fail the 2nd time like Pivot did last Spring