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Battle Intensifies Between Fired Workers, CWA and Cablevision

The group of Brooklyn technicians fired by Cablevision two weeks ago have been rallying around the city with high-profile politicians to give their account of how Cablevision has mistreated its unionized workers. Cablevision maintains that Communications Workers of America, the union which 282 Bro ... More >>

Video Footage of Cablevision Management Firing 23 Unionized Brooklyn Workers

Last week we reported on the 23 Brooklyn technicians who were fired by Cablevision for allegedly refusing to work Wednesday morning. The fired technicians were a part of a group of about 70 workers who say that they were attempting to utilize an open-door policy at the company that allows workers t ... More >>

Conflicting Stories Emerge Following the Firing of 23 Cablevision Workers

This morning a group of protestors, led by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, demanded that management at Cablevision's garage in Canarsie come out and have a little chat about yesterday's firing of 23 workers. Cablevision says that the fired technicians were i ... More >>

Amid the Usual Media Circus That is New York, Jeremy Lin Shares Post-Surgery Photo

He may be pretty much done for the season, but Jeremy Lin is still the center of attention in the New York sports world. Yesterday, The Daily News' Frank Isola accused the Knicks of withholding news of Lin's surgery until after the playoff tickets purchase deadline, for regular season ticket holde ... More >>

Fox and Cablevision Strike a Deal, Bring Television Back to New York

​The standoff between Fox parent company News Corp. and Cablevision has ended after a two-week blackout, with local Fox affiliates restored to local television sets just prior to Saturday night's World Series game three. Today, New Yorkers can watch the Jets vs. Packers. Life is sports.

Sunday Evening Link Dump: R.I.P. to Barbara Billingsley and Bad News in Iraq

Sundog​It feels a little like Fall outside in New York City and the news wires are mostly calm this Sunday evening. Football is dominating, as it tends to do this time of year, with the Jets on in Denver and the Giants holding on to beat Detroit, though Cablevision customers in the area missed all ... More >>

Amid Cablevision Confusion, News Corp. Pulls Fox From Hulu, Then Puts It Back

​We told you this morning about the dispute between Cablevision and Fox parent company News Corp., which resulted in three million homes in the New York area losing access to the television stations Fox 5 and My9. As Saturday progressed, the battle got uglier, with News Corp. blocking Cablevis ... More >>

Media Mogul James Dolan Elects to Use 'Nuclear Option' on Village Voice, Yet Again Pulling More Advertising Than Ever!

​Back in March, a blog post we published regarding a potential media acquisition by Cablevision, MSG Entertainment, and Rainbow Media owner James Dolan -- compounded by a vaguely worded, ominous legal threat from Dolan's corporate office, which was ignored and then published in a naive showing ... More >>

MSG Reno to Exile Liberty ... to Newark?

​Proving the old line that the best way to find real news in the Times is to read the stories end-to-beginning, the Paper of Record offers up a classic buried lede in its article today about the upcoming renovations to Madison Square Garden. Round about the sixth paragraph, sportswriter Richar ... More >>

Notoriously Litigious Sexual Harrasser Cablevision CEO Jimmy Dolan Would Rather Us Not Discuss His Penis

​So, you're in the corporate communications department of a very big company whose chairman has a reputation for being so aggressive with the press as to invoke comparisons to swatting flies with hammers. Something not nice is written about your boss in a very concise, if generally cheeky and/ ... More >>

BlogBeat: Gothamist Sells Out to Cablevision, James Dolan Presumably Excited to Ruin Another News Outlet

​Gothamist -- the New York City metro news blog and subsequent locally-based "Ist" properties -- long a punchline among bloggers who poked at its overly excitable tones about the varying news minutiae it covered, finally gave themselves something to giggle over: a long-rumored multi-million do ... More >>

Food Network Back on Cablevision; Brooklyn Gets a Gay Cookbook

​A week after losing its high-profile chef, Fabio Trabocchi, who had only been in the position for three months, The Four Seasons restaurant is also saying farewell its dining room manager, James Olson, who will be the general manager at the new Tavern on the Green. [NY Post] The Cablevision- ... More >>

Forget Food Network. Watch Your Gastro-Programming Online.

How about a little cycle with that bake?​Cablevision customers may not be able to get their Food Network, but with the proliferation of quality online culinary programs, they might no longer need it. There's Liza de Guia's delightful mini documentaries about the city's chefs, farmers, and othe ... More >>

Food Network Fans Start a Facebook Page; A Vegetarian Author Gets Meaty

​Mollie Katzen, author of vegetarian bibles The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, started eating meat again recently, and so has included several recipes in her latest cookbook for vegetarians that incorporate meat. [Newsweek] Muslim immigrants who own small businesses lik ... More >>

Cablevision Drops Food Network; Quarter Pounder Inventor Dies

​Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is up in arms about Cablevision dropping HGTV and Food Network. He recently twittered: "Bang away at Cablevision... can't believe there [sic] not showing Food Network," after the channels were dropped in a fee dispute with owner Scripps Network. [NY Post] An upstate ... More >>

Michelle Obama hosts Iron Chef America tonight

​First Lady Michelle Obama is promoting her signature healthy eating initiative on Iron Chef tonight with a fresh vegetable challenge. The secret ingredient is anything the contestants can gather from the White House garden. White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford, a holdover from the Bu ... More >>

Fox and Time Warner cut a deal

​After weeks of high-stakes brinksmanship and a last-minute extension, Time Warner Cable cut a deal Friday night to pay an unspecified per-viewer fee to transmit Fox programming from News Corporation-0wned stations broadcasting in New York, Los Angeles, and a number of other major cities. Fox ... More >>

How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving

Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it

On track: Barack Obama's conjunction junction

Can't get enough of Obama's January 17 train ride. Here it is again. Even before today's inauguration, Barack Obama's whistle-stop trip to D.C. brought the best of two worlds to America. Besides being just a really cool thing to do — complete with speeches by the mellifluous new president t ... More >>

MSG Renovations Delayed?

Hold That 'Sweetheart' Verizon Cable Franchise, Advocates Warn

Newsday to Line Dolans' Bird Cage

Crowded House

More movies, fewer screens, and a new game in town means cutthroat competition for indie-film distributors

A Crashing Bore

What's so fun about 22 guys in spandex slamming into one another? Along for the ride with Jets and Giants fans

I Spy a Corny Thriller

Attempting to say something about our voyeuristic culture, first-person flick can't see past genre clichés

Reel News

Celebrities get involved as IFC Center union protests continue

Saving NYC's Liberties from America

New Waverly

IFC indahouse: A Village theater reopens, but not without controversy

Brighter Summer Days

Stopping a Stadium

Heroes had different motives, but they shared scorn for the Jets deal

Win One for the Gyppers

With a strong push from city hall, MTA moves the ball for the Jets

If They Build It, You'll Pay

Whether a stadium is built, the Olympics may get off at another stop

Giving Away the Store

A costly, developing problem for New York City that's three decades old

Jets Zoom in on New York

Details of stadium financing as an 'investment' seep into public view

A Billion Here, A Billion There

New York City heads for a stadium overdose. Guess who will be paying.

Sports

Dancers Make Movies

Recent Releases and Upcoming Events

Another Roll of the McDyess

The Blurry Vision Thing

Music

The Cable Guy

Win or Lose, Steinbrenner Wins

Sports

Strike-Out

A Feud Between Cablevision and the Yankees' New YES Network Has Left Fans in the Dark. Upset?

Sports

Music

Sports

Sports

Winners Take All

The Seventh Annual Village Voice Sportswriters Poll

Jersey Move for Yanks Swamped

Cable-Ready or Not

Giuliani and the City Council Fight for Control Over Franchises

Serial Mom

Lucky Seven Pays Off Big When You're Corn-Fed and White