I know Iowa is in a bowl game, but when the State Government gets involved because people are mad they can’t watch the game, the line is crossed. The State government has no right wasting tax payer’s money for bullshit like this. Get satellite or use the internet! How much money is wasted on this? All it is, is a leverage tool for the provider to get the money they want and they are manipulating the government to do it. Do you all honestly believe it is a co-incidence that this is happening now, just when Iowa is in a bowl game? Come on wake up. I predicted this outcome a week ago, it is so predictable. Pure Bullshit!
Here is the story from Radio Iowa. (p.s. Mom, I told you this would happen.)
by Dar Danielson on December 31, 2009
There’s word today that an agreement could allow thousands of Iowa cable customers to see the University of Iowa play in the Orange Bowl next week. An agreement between the Mediacom Cable company and Sinclair broadcasting expires at midnight tonight, and if action isn’t taken, Sinclair stations KDSM in Des Moines, KFXA in Cedar Rapids, and KGAN in Cedar Rapids will stop being transmitted to Mediacom cable customers.
In a letter to Congress today, Mediacom chairman and chief executive officer Rocco Commisso says he’s received a tentative indication that Sinclair may consider a very short-term extension of their agreement. The case involves some 250,000 cable subscribers in Iowa.
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has asked the Federal Communion Commission to mandate interim carriage rights for Mediacom until a new contract is negotiated.
OH HOW RIGHT YOU WERE- BUT I believe awhile back That Channel 6 in Davenport did something similar–to GET THE CABLE company to do what they wanted. AND THESE SAME people would tell you- they DON’T want government in their business, RIGHT??? COME ON HERE……we are FAST BECOMING this NEW WORLD ORDER that BIG BUSINESS is attempting to create!!