ABC Controversy

I think ABC definitely decided to go back on the air because of a bad PR decision. The Academy Awards is one of this channels most important programs a year, and it would be completely foolish is they decided not let it be available to as many as all of cablevisions users. It was a good decision on ABC’s part to allow Cablevision customers to watch the Oscars, only missing an hour of the Award Ceremony. Not showing the Oscars would be a bad more for ABC because it would lose a lot of respect for viewers and cause bad publicity for this family based channel for years to come. It is a better decision to allow themselves to look like the victims in this situation since cablevision has had its power trip. By turning their airtime back on they made viewers seem important since they chose its reliability rather than just money purposes. Cablevision is becoming a monopoly so we all know that the customers were the ones affected by Cablevisions money hungry antics, so its not fair to punish the customers.  It was also a good decision because it makes them look like the bigger better person over Cablevision.  

Cablevision has been making themselves look very bad, with a lot of recent issuses they have been starting with subscriptions with other TV networks and have resulted in the pulling of programming. Cablevision had a recent issue with  the Scripps network, which is on the Food Network channel. In this sitation, similiar to the ABC dispute, Scripps pulled their programming from Cablevision. Two serious issues in such a short time looks very bad for their repuation.  That is why this recent programming issue was more of a concern for  Cablevision more than ABC. Cablevision profited  $8 billion last year, and are still charging customers obsene amounts of money, but yet still cant seem to get what they pay for. Cablevision is trying to start all of this drama with everyone's contracts and refusing to pay anymore money but yet its customers bills keep going up.  They need some serious PR work after this one!