What started as a routine contract dispute between Cablevision Systems and the News Corporation has become one of the longest and most talked about blackouts of television programming in years.
Talk story about the blackout of the lower end of Manhattan, from 11th St. to the Battery.
Tells about the blackout of 2003 Much of the blame was placed on New York, but people who live in New York use less than half as much electricity as people who don't.
Popplestone and Eszenyi got two hours with the script in a secure room; later, they learned about the great blackout of 2022, which the public saw in Shinchiro Watanabe's anime prequel short following the replicant rebels who destroyed Earth's digital capability and hooked humans on analog.
For years, sports fans have griped about TV blackouts of local games.
The show will be part of a 2012-13 season that will also include a new play by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ("Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark"), based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula," and a new musical conceived by Kim Rosenstock ("Tigers Be Still") about the New York City blackout of 1965.
Although many British newspapers have quite rightly given extensive coverage to the financial crisis in Spain (Spanish bailout deal emerges, 9 June), there appears to be an almost total blackout of news about the response of the workers' movement in Spain to the austerity measures being pursued by the government.
The release of Sergeant Bales's name, first reported by Fox News, ended an extraordinary six-day blackout of public information about him from the Pentagon, which said it withheld his identity for so long because of concerns about his and his family's security.
The lineup includes two fully staged productions of works-in-progress: Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's "Downtown Race Riot," about young guys stirring up trouble in Washington Square Park, and Mozhan Marno's "When the Lights Went Out," about six New Yorkers during the Northeast blackout of 2003.
