Altice USA, which is a fourth-largest cable TV distributor with 2.3 million subscribers, may be positioning itself as other pay TV platforms such as DirecTV, Comcast and Charter have been doing.
Altice USA Inc. dropped MSG Networks from its Optimum cable-TV lineup on New Year’s Day, meaning subscribers in the New York area can’t watch games from teams such as the Knicks and Rangers.
On Jan. 1 the deal between MSG Networks and Altice, the owner of New York area cable and internet provider Optimum, expired leading to Optimum dropping MSG's channels. For sports fans in the New ...
As of press time Tuesday, neither side seemed willing to budge much over the carriage fees paid by Optimum parent Altice to broadcast MSG Networks, which is run by Knicks and Rangers owner James ...