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Comcast has a tight grip on Philadelphia sports fans with its SportsNet Philadelphia channel, which has been the exclusive carrier of games from the Phillies, Flyers and 76ers. But now Comcast will have to make the channel available to satellite-TV providers, thanks to FCC-approved terms of its deal for NBC Universal.

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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.'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.

Strike another nail in the coffin of brick-and-mortar video stores. Netflix has agreed to pay $1 billion over the next five years for the online streaming rights to movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM. Originally a mail-order movie service, Netflix has been working on boosting its online...

Unhappy satellite TV subscribers -- most customers of DirecTV and Dish Network -- have been complaining by the thousands to the Better Business Bureau. More than 53,000 satellite customers have complained to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) in the previous three years -- with 39,000 of those...

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Two months ago, a court ruling sent TiVo's stock soaring. On Friday, a federal appeals court decision had the opposite effect, sending the stock down 40%.

The next cable bill that comes in your mail could contain a belated bad start to 2010 in the form of higher prices. Not only are new offerings, like 3-D programming, on the way later this year but networks in general want more money for their programming. Fox, for example, threatened to pull its...