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In New York, MSG Networks has pulled the plug on Time Warner Cable sports fans. In Corpus Christi TX, it's a local broadcaster pulling the plug.
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Monica
I am going to miss watching the Sabres, but am sick of MSG greed. It used to be a couple minutes of commercials every 15. Now, we have to watch commercials DURING the game (the pouring of the beer on over half the screen is the most annoying of them). Cable rates are way too high. They have advertising money coming from everywhere, why are we charged so much too?
 
 
Eddie
I am a die hard Ranger/Knick fan, With rising ticket costs who can go to a game and now the greed don't end there. Dolan wants more just to watch it on T.V. As much as I will miss seeing the games I will now simply follow through the paper. Don't give into the GREED! Tell Dolan to beat it! LOWER MY BILLS not increase them!
 
 
Mike
Any internet savvy person can find a live stream of any Rangers or Knicks game. And if they put MSG on a tier of its own, thats exactly what people are going to do. MSG better stop making the mistake that people actually watch its 24/7 programming. The only reason people watch that channel is for Rangers and Knicks games they could otherwise find as a live stream online in all of 0.12 seconds.
 
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Here are examples of what others are saying about some of the issues we talk about on this site:
Buffalo News | January 15, 2012

Beyond the basics of bickering between Time Warner, MSG

So, how come you can’t watch the Sabres anymore? It’s a simple enough question. The answer –at its most basic level –is because MSG is no longer available to Time Warner Cable subscribers. More

 
KuklasKorner.com | January 13, 2012

MSG And Time Warner Should Look In The Mirror

But what you might be interested to know is this: (1) MSG felt that what Time Warner was paying 14 months ago was a fair price, and (2) Time Warner could pass on a cost increase of less than an arena beer per month to its customers to get Sabres games back on the air. More

 
New York Times | January 11, 2012

MSG and Time Warner Continue to Face Off

Since New Year’s Day, many local sports fans have lived with a disturbing reality: they cannot watch the Knicks, the Rangers, the Devils and the Islanders play on the MSG and MSG Plus networks. More