No Food Network on Cablevision?

My wife is going to be driving nuts until this gets settled. What's my other option, a dish?

Subject: Re: No Food Network on Cablevision?

Old Time Brooklyn wrote: My wife is going to be driving nuts until this gets settled. What's my other option, a dish?

Divorce is another option

lets start a protest against these greedy cable companies. oh wait we cant they got us hooked. those converter boxes do nothing. THE FCC got us in their grips.

Can't wait for FIOS.

bococalady wrote: lets start a protest against these greedy cable companies. oh wait we cant they got us hooked. those converter boxes do nothing. THE FCC got us in their grips.

The FCC does not regulate cable.

Carnivore wrote: Can't wait for FIOS.

Yep.

When is FIOS coming?

modsquad wrote:
The FCC does not regulate cable.

Not yet, anyway. I was dying for TW to drop Fox to see the outcry from the right. It would have been a lot of fun.

^I would have loved them to drop Fox :-)

Eater commented on Cablevision/Food Network today:

http://ny.eater.com/archives/2010/01/where_are_you_watching_food_networks_super_chef_battle.php

squindar wrote: [quote=modsquad]
The FCC does not regulate cable.

Not yet, anyway. I was dying for TW to drop Fox to see the outcry from the right. It would have been a lot of fun.

Yeah, cause we just can't live without American Idol and The Simpsons. I'll keep my fingers crossed for ya that nothing happens to Cartoon Network.

love love love my directv dish. rarely goes out, great reception, and not a penny spent on TW

I for one, am VERY upset about the Food Network. Also, waiting (in vain) for Fios to come to the nabe. I'm not allowed to have a dish as per my landlord, so I guess I'm S.O.L. I am vewy vewwy sad.

what you really want is an A La Carte Pricing Model

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-When-Do-We-Get-A-La-Carte-TV-Channel-Pricing-106123

then you would not really have this problem with pricing arguments
but this is not likely to ever happen unless a new provider started from scratch offering this..

just got FiOS...came into my building on Plaza St recently...so glad to rid myself of Cablevision

It's almost like Cablevision is TRYING to lose all their customers to FIOS. If they don't resolve this soon, I'm almost tempted to switch to DSL until FIOS is available, and rely on bit torrent for my TV.

Whatchuwant wrote: I for one, am VERY upset about the Food Network. Also, waiting (in vain) for Fios to come to the nabe. I'm not allowed to have a dish as per my landlord, so I guess I'm S.O.L. I am vewy vewwy sad.

you might want to check the laws on that, whatchuwant. i know that your landlord must allow you to have cable, and the ability to get a dish may also be a right

brooklynpotter wrote: [quote=Whatchuwant]I for one, am VERY upset about the Food Network. Also, waiting (in vain) for Fios to come to the nabe. I'm not allowed to have a dish as per my landlord, so I guess I'm S.O.L. I am vewy vewwy sad.

you might want to check the laws on that, whatchuwant. i know that your landlord must allow you to have cable, and the ability to get a dish may also be a right

I'll check- but she owns it, and she doesn't want a bunch of dishes hanging on the walls outside the building. Dishes can fall down, cracking folks on the head and suing her. I think she's in the right here...

nope, she's not

http://www.abcny.org/RealEstate/Articles/Dish.htm

here, too:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html

her rules can't trump the FCC

brooklynpotter wrote: here, too:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html

her rules can't trump the FCC

What you're failing to acknowledge is this -

FCC wrote: ...and tenants who have an area where they have exclusive use, such as a balcony or patio, in which to install the antenna. [snip] The rule does not apply to common areas that are owned by a landlord, a community association, or jointly by condominium or cooperative owners where the antenna user does not have an exclusive use area. Such common areas may include the roof or exterior wall of a multiple dwelling unit. Therefore, restrictions on antennas installed in or on such common areas are enforceable.

If she does not have access to southern exposure, which is necessary for aiming the dish at geosynchronous satellites, she may indeed be SOL.

Yea- it won't work for us. We don't face the southwest and that says we only have exclusive rights to our balcony/railings, etc. Besides- we're moving, so at this point I'm not that "hungry" (haha! Get it?!?!) to fight her on it.

WhyFi wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]here, too:
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html

her rules can't trump the FCC

What you're failing to acknowledge is this -

FCC wrote: ...and tenants who have an area where they have exclusive use, such as a balcony or patio, in which to install the antenna. [snip] The rule does not apply to common areas that are owned by a landlord, a community association, or jointly by condominium or cooperative owners where the antenna user does not have an exclusive use area. Such common areas may include the roof or exterior wall of a multiple dwelling unit. Therefore, restrictions on antennas installed in or on such common areas are enforceable.

If she does not have access to southern exposure, which is necessary for aiming the dish at geosynchronous satellites, she may indeed be SOL.

Whyfi - you beat me to the punch - unless the OP has a balcony or somesuch (they don't), they're SOL.

I actually had a nightmare that my tenants would have Cablevision run the cable through the front side wall of my brownstone (I know, I know, I tend to control freak a little).

I think few things more horrid looking than the the sight of those black coaxial cables falling off the street-side cornices and snaking in through the front windows - a lot of my neighbors have that.

boogieknight, those are dish rules. cable rules are different:
http://www.dps.state.ny.us/cablergt.html
http://www.nysconsumer.gov/clahm/cable_television.htm#landlord

They are back!

bkhoosierfan wrote: what you really want is an A La Carte Pricing Model

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/So-When-Do-We-Get-A-La-Carte-TV-Channel-Pricing-106123

then you would not really have this problem with pricing arguments
but this is not likely to ever happen unless a new provider started from scratch offering this..

in the current new yorker, james surowiecki makes a pretty convincing argument that a la carte is not the panacea a lot of people think it would be.