On Friday, customers of Altice USA’s Optimum TV lost access to Nexstar-owned or operated channels like WPIX (Channel 11) in New York, KTLA (Channel 5) in Los Angeles and around five dozen others ...

An Optimum customer service center located in New Jersey. (Photo by Jonathan Schilling via Wikimedia Commons, Graphic by The Desk) Nexstar Media Group on Tuesday began notifying viewers of its local ...

MSG Networks, part of the Sphere Entertainment (SPHR), announced that Altice USA (ATUS) has dropped MSG Networks from its Optimum channel lineup in the tri-state area. “As a last-ditch effort to ...

The Islanders next play on ESPN+/Hulu, a 7:30 PM game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday. Their next game on MSGSN is Sunday at 6 PM against the Boston Bruins. For Islanders fans who ...

Local sports fans that subscribe to Optimum got unwelcome news to start the new year when the cable provider dropped the MSG Networks channels after the two sides could not reach a new deal.

During the negotiations, MSG Networks demanded exorbitant programming fees and required Optimum to make MSG channels available to the vast majority of video subscribers, whether they wanted the ...

Optimum is no longer carrying MSG Networks channels upon expiration of the previous agreement Dec. 31. The announcement leaves customers scrambling to find other ways to watch their favorite pro ...

Beginning Jan. 1, Optimum has removed MSG Networks from its channel lineup in the tri-state area, affecting fans of the New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, and New York Rangers. MSG Networks ...