Fox struck a deal with cable provider on the East Coast

A fight between two media groups, supports millions of subscribers to cable television to see in the New York area, the Major League Baseball and NFL football ended Thursday night, just in time for Game 3 of the World Series. News Corp., Fox Broadcasting and Cablevision Systems Corp. agreed in principle to Fox Television Stations back to households in Cablevision than two weeks after Fox pulled the plug. It is about fees, who have to pay Fox Cable Vision to the network signal and power cable channels Fox Business Network, a Spanish sports channel Fox Sports and National Geographic wanted.

Although the two sides reach an agreement that does not mean he was satisfied with the result. In a statement, Cablevision criticized the Federal Communications Commission not to interfere in the conflict and criticized Fox for a heavy hand. "In the absence of significant action by the FCC, has Fox Cablevision agreed to an unfair price for multiple channels of programming, including many in which our customers have little or no interest to pay," added Cablevision, the company Fox was "do not think their customers should be programs that they want to see more Fox denied."

The evil of some of these conflicts, which are increasingly used as broadcasters increasingly offset transportation costs for cable operators to the erosion of advertising, has a bitter taste in the mouth of the left cable customers and legislators. The failure of two weeks, the longest in the industry, has Fox and Cablevision spent millions in advertising and lobbying in the attacks. Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) proposed legislation to give more weight to the FCC in these disputes and to ensure that the signals are not removed from the subscriber until it is clear that both parties have exhausted all possibilities for settlement. Cablevision and Fox came a day after Fox hit front on a similar agreement with Dish Network satellite TV, also in the bitter negotiations, the customer was left with no more than a dozen cable channels Fox.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Fox wanted a long-term agreement that Cablevision to about 50 cents per subscriber for its TV station Fox in a year that will gradually increase to a dollar per subscriber have to pay per month. Cablevision serves 3 million customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Cablevison said: "Our customers will pay more than necessary for programming at Fox." Fox said: "These comments should not surprise anyone, and also confirms that this difference is wrong only to the efforts of Cablevision to a change of rules in their favor." Tagged Cablevision hard for the FCC argued effect of Fox force in vain to foreign agents. Several politicians also accept pressure on Fox, but the network does not move, arguing there was no need for government involvement in trade disputes. When Fox reached an agreement Friday with the courts, it seems that Fox had to leverage increased