Cablevision filed a complaint with the FCC alleging...
Cablevision filed a complaint with the FCC alleging Meredith Corp. refused to operate in good faith during retransmission consent negotiations. The companies have been in a dispute over retransmission of Meredith’s WFSB-TV Hartford, Conn., to Cablevision subscribers (CD Jan 8…
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p14). Cablevision asked the FCC “to immediately direct Meredith to cease its bad faith negotiation practices and to separate negotiations for carriage of WFSB in Litchfield and New Haven counties from negotiations for carriage of the channel elsewhere in Connecticut,” it said in a news release Friday. Meredith said “it is Cablevision that is acting in bad faith.” Meredith urged Cablevision’s customers “to look at alternate providers or use an over-the-air antenna if they would like to receive WFSB’s leading local news, top CBS primetime programming, and the NFL playoffs this weekend,” it said in a statement.