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Cablevision Systems Corp. (CVC) is considering spinning off its Rainbow unit, which includes cable channels AMC, Sundance and IFC. The company may spin off the unit to its shareholders as a "tax-free pro-rata distribution," Cablevision said in a statement. The deal would be completed by mid-year...

Dish Network reached an agreement with Fox on Friday, ending a blackout of some channels and ensuring customers will keep getting the World Series. So far, Cablevision subscribers are still out of luck.

News Corp. rejected Cablevision's retransmission price offer for Fox's New York and Philadelphia television stations, prompting Cablevision to solicit regulators to restore Fox TV signals to 3 million Cablevision subscribers in the Northeast.

Millions of sports fans in the Northeast are in danger of missing the World Series and other programs in the wake of a dispute between Cablevision and Fox TV. But some consumers are turning to ivi TV, a rapidly growing re-broadcaster that works on the Web.

News Corp.'s Fox has pulled its channels off Cablevision after a programming deal expired at midnight Saturday. The move means 3 million viewers in Philadelphia and New York could miss the first game in the National League Championship Series between the Phillies and the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night.

Cablevision Systems will acquire Bresnan Communications, owned in part by Providence Equity Partners, in a transaction valued at $1.365 billion.

If you're an entertainment maven, chances are you love movies enough to rent them, whether it's a brand-new video such as "Avatar," or a recent classic along the lines of "You've Got Mail." (Hey! Now that sounds catchy...) So in this installment of the Savings Experiment, allow us to...

While the two sides in this dispute reached a tentative agreement to settle before millions of viewers were left with no Academy Awards telecast, more fights like this are bound to occur. So, don't be too quick to ditch your rabbit ears.

How's this for an Academy Awards script? FADE IN: INT. AWARDS HALL -- NIGHT Packed house of luminaries, each more beautiful than the next. CLOSE on AGING MOVIE STAR bent over at the podium. AGING MOVIE STAR And the Oscar for pettiness between cable and network broadcasters goes to ... WABC of New...

Disney and Cablevision are locked in a tense standoff over carriage fees that could leave millions of viewers without access to the Academy Awards show, one of the biggest television events of the year.