Uhmn...you mean the Awards Ceremony? I think that involved an ABC TV and Cable Vision 'disagreement' in the NYC area. But only for those that didn't have another carrier or rabbit ears... You could have come down here and watched the whole thing, since we have one TV that wouldn't have had the "show" on. Is it true that Cable Vision was charging customers $18/month, just for ABC?!
No it's not true that they charge 18 bucks just for ABC...
Like they have many packages, they have one for $12 a month which will get you all the basic channels plus their exclusive news and traffic/weather channels, delivered through the cable network. People were criticizing this package and saying how they could charge for basic basic channels... well evidently cablevision has expenses to cover so if you want to be hooked up to their network you're going to have to pay for it!
Now in regards to ABC-- Cablevision pays them already $200 Million a year in rebroadcasting fees, and ABC wanted another $40 million because they claim that their network is worthy of it.
**To me, ABC has no value and is a dying network... Aside from Lost, which is in its final season, and Extreme Makeover Home Edition, their shows suck! All of the good sports are now on CBS, NBC, and FOX like Football and Baseball, as well as all of the good series' like 24 and CSI.
They ended up putting ABC back on the network in the middle of the awards...
I couldn't care if they never put ABC back on the network