Cablevision also gained a 50 % interest in Fox Sports New England ( Comcast owned 50 %).

Time Warner Cable and Cablevision, both of which serve New York Metropolitan Area have also recently picked up the HD channel in late July 2008.

" WAPA America " can also be seen in the U. S. through cable television service via companies like Comcast, RCN, Qwest Communications, and recently added to Cablevision subscribers in the greater New York City Metropolitan Area, and several surrounding communities.

It is also slowly being added to other providers in select areas, such as Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Bright House and Charter

It is also available on Dish Network, Verizon FiOS, AT & T Uverse, Cablevision, and some Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks systems.

** GTE mainStreet ( US ) a former product of GTE, also provided over select Continental Cablevision and Daniels cable television systems.

US West was also briefly in the cable business with its purchase of Continental Cablevision in 1996, creating MediaOne ( which was later spun off ).

On December 21, however, after New Jersey legislators threatened legal action, Cablevision changed its mind and indeed showed not only the game between Rutgers and Kansas State, but also the entire free preview schedule.

The stadium was also notably opposed by Cablevision, the sixth-largest cable television company in the United States and the owner of Madison Square Garden ( MSG )— home to the New York Knicks and New York Rangers — and the MSG Network, which broadcasts most of those teams ' games.

Johnson, who also owns courtside seats to the New York Knicks, outbid the $ 612 million offered by Charles F. Dolan, the chairman of Cablevision, which owns Madison Square Garden, the Knicks and the Rangers.

Cablevision also serves approximately 300, 000 customers in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming under the Optimum West brand.

Cablevision also offers high-speed Internet connections ( Optimum Online ), as well as digital cable ( Optimum TV ), and VoIP ( Optimum Voice ) phone service ( the 8th largest telephone provider in the U. S .) through its Optimum brand name.

In the 1980s, Cablevision also expanded into the Chicago, Boston, and Cleveland areas.

Cablevision also carried the Tennis Channel for a brief period of time from October 2009-September 2011.

Cablevision, as a content provider, also engaged in a dispute with Verizon over the carriage of MSG Network and Fox Sports Net New York on its FiOS television systems.

Cablevision also repeatedly called on FOX to submit to binding arbitration, an offer which FOX repeatedly did not take Cablevision up on.

Cablevision also previously attempted to purchase the Yankees, Mets and Boston Red Sox, in part, to control their broadcast rights.

The Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision also operated a satellite television company called Voom, which was shut down on April 30, 2005, but lived on as a series of high-definition television channels named Voom HD Networks.

However, the 15 U. S. channels were eventually also shut down due to lack of distribution prior to the spinning off of Rainbow Media from Cablevision as the independent AMC Networks.

Cablevision also owned the former SportsChannel America from its beginning in 1976 until it was dissolved into Fox Sports Net in the late 1990s.

Cablevision also once owned New York-area electronics chain The Wiz, before closing it.

The channel also signed new multiyear agreements with Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, and Dish Network on October 22, 2009.

This can also be seen in most areas on Time Warner digital channel 811, on HTC Cablevision channel 99 in Conway, and in Brunswick County, North Carolina on ATMC channel 13.

Cablevision looped a public service announcement on each affected channel and forcing all of its customers ' set-top boxes to channel 1999, which looped the same annnouncement, much like was done when Scripps Networks and ABC / Disney pulled their cable channels ' programming.

However, BBC World News itself is not currently widely available in the US as a separate channel ( although it does appear on several cable systems throughout the United States, generally in lieu of BBC America ; one previous example is the New York based service Cablevision which until August 2011, did not carry BBC America ) or in a 30-minute telecast on public television stations daily.

Medford Community Cablevision serves the City of Medford, Massachusetts and oversees the community's public access television on Comcast channel 3.

Medford Community Cablevision has been internationally recognized by the Alliance for Community Media in 2008 and 2011 for " Overall Excellence in Public Television "; the highest award presented to a public access facility.

In 2010, Mayor McGlynn was accused by local press of having " secret " meetings with the board of directors of Medford Community Cablevision to discuss potential remedies to the Judge's report prior to its public release.

After Cablevision presented a rival proposal for West Side development without a stadium, public sentiment against an apparent no-bid contract for the Jets prompted the MTA to establish an open bidding process for the site.

Attorneys for Cablevision announced that they would file suit to challenge the decision, and many other media outlets lambasted the MTA's decision as simply doing Governor Pataki's bidding rather than accepting a plan that would best serve the public.

Cablevision began looping a public service announcement on each affected channel and forcing all of its customers ' set-top boxes to channel 1999, which was looping the same annnouncement, much like was done when Scripps Networks pulled their cable channels ' programming.

The project managed to stay largely out of the media and public spotlight until early 2004 when Cablevision released its first round of advertising against the Stadium.

This service is made available, at no additional cost, to Optimum Broadband subscribers, and is available at over 14, 000 locations across Long Island, NY, parts of NJ and CT. Cablevision has reported a double digit reduction in subscriber churn since launching Optimum Wi-Fi, even as Verizon has rolled out FiOS, a competitive residential broadband service in the Cablevision footprint.

Scientific Atlanta provides VoIP equipment to cable service providers such as Time Warner, Cablevision, Rogers Communications, UPC, and others ; Linksys has partnered with companies such as Skype, Microsoft and Yahoo!

Smithtown broadcasts its board meetings on SGTV, the Town of Smithtown Public service television station ; Cablevision channel 18 or Verizon channel 27.

* iO Digital Cable Service, a service offered by Cablevision

Major cell phone companies including Claro, AT & T, Sprint and Open Mobile offer mobile coverage, and Liberty Cablevision and DirecTV offer cable and satellite television service, respectively, with Spanish and English channels as well as high-speed Internet service.

This service is currently available to Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner, Cablevision, Grande and Conway cable-modem subscribers.

* Remote storage digital video recorder ( network DVR service pioneered by Cablevision )

By the mid-1990s Cablevision would offer service to 2. 9 million subscribers in 19 states.

From September 1988 through July 1989, Cablevision did not carry MSG Network ( at the time owned by Gulf + Western, which later became Paramount Communications ) over the question of whether MSG should be offered as a basic service or a premium service.

This dispute ended with Cablevision offering MSG as a premium subscription service, just like " SportsChannel ".

Cablevision wanted to offer YES as a premium service, like MSG and Fox Sports NY, where YES ownership wanted the channel on the ' Family Cable ' tier.

Additionally, Cablevision owned exclusive rights to the MSNBC news network in its service territory, preventing its carriage by FiOS in overlapping areas.

The lone exception was Cablevision, the largest system in Long Island, which claimed that TV-55 added nothing to the service they already offered, and so, refused to carry it.

The channel appears on channel 8 on Cablevision's New York City service ( in mid December 2010 it was moved to Channel 8 with Channel 1 stricken from the Cablevision program guide ) in letterboxed standard definition ( using the HD feed ).