Sentence examples for as a basic channel from inspiring English sources

While other cable companies accepted the YES Network's offer to carry the Yankees as a basic channel, Cablevision refused.

It has successfully pursued agreements to be carried as a basic channel with Time Warner, Comcast, RCN and DirecTV, the satellite service.

Dolan also repeated his objection to YES's demand that Cablevision carry the network as a basic channel and pay a monthly fee of $2 a subscriber.

Cablevision refused an offer from the YES Network for the cable company to pay $72 million, about $24 per subscriber, to carry the games as a basic channel this season.

A fractious battle is being waged over Cablevision's refusal to pay what it believes is an excessive monthly fee of $2 per subscriber to carry YES as a basic channel, as YES has demanded.

James L. Dolan, the president of Cablevision, and Leo J. Hindery Jr., the chairman of YES, refused even to say whether YES would be carried as a basic channel or a premium offering.

Time Warner executives said they were close to a deal with Disney in December that would have turned the Disney cable channel from a premium service to a basic channel, as well as adding two other Disney cable channels, the Soap Channel and Disney Toon, to Time Warner's cable systems.

Dolan said he would not make YES a basic channel, forcing his customers to absorb rate increases, as the cable companies Comcast, Cox and AT&T have.

That led to arbitrators ordering Cablevision to carry YES as an expanded basic channel at a price close to what YES desired.

The new proposal would make YES temporarily available as an expanded basic channel; the March 12 deal let Cablevision sell it as a premium service for one year.

When MSG carried the Yankees, Cablevision demanded that other cable systems show it as an expanded basic channel.