Altice USA and Fox Reach Carriage Deal Agreement For Optimum, Averting Sports And Content Blackout
deadline.comLet the games continue. Altice USA and Fox have reached a new carriage agreement just before a Friday midnight deadline that would have blacked out Optimum programming for New York area viewers.
That would have been disastrous for sports fans, who look forward to Fox’s NFL, college football, and Major League Baseball playoffs coverage in one of the busiest months of the year.
Altice is a cable and broadband provider, the US division of a French company. Its consumer-facing brand is Optimum. While Altice/Optimum is not a heavyweight in terms of distribution (No.
9 by subscribers), they are significant in the NY suburbs. The expiring contract covered local Fox stations including WNYW-TV and WWOR-TV in New York, as well as cable channels FS1, FS2, Fox News Channel, Fox Business News, and Big Ten Network. ■ “Optimum and Fox are pleased to announce that a mutually agreed upon deal has been reached that will allow continued carriage of Fox programming for Optimum TV customers,” the companies said in a statement.
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