Sentence examples for on basic tiers from inspiring English sources
Yesterday's executive inaction will be followed today by newspaper advertisements by YES that will feature, in one column, a list of the 25 cable operators that are carrying YES on basic tiers, and in a second column, Cablevision by itself.
But the agreement gives Cablevision the ability to market YES as an expanded basic channel in some areas where Cablevision already sells its own networks, the MSG Network and Fox Sports New York, on basic tiers.
YES is getting monthly fees of $2 a subscriber from 25 cable operators -- representing about five million local cable households -- with YES carried on enhanced basic tiers.
YES is carried on the expanded basic tiers of all other systems in the region, and on DirecTV.
But Hindery did not sound hopeful of a deal with Cablevision to put YES on a basic tier.
Providers want to offer popular channels like ESPN and Discovery on a basic tier, because they get people to subscribe to cable.
Dolan reiterated his refusal to accept a deal requiring Cablevision's 2.9 million subscribers to pay a monthly fee YES has demanded to carry the channel on a basic tier.
Cablevision is at an impasse with the YES Network; it has refused to pay the fees YES is requesting and to place it on the basic tier, where all other cable systems in the metropolitan area have agreed to put it.
Jerry Jones, the Cowboys' owner and the outspoken chairman of the league's NFL Network committee, has urged customers of Comcast and other large cable providers that do not carry the network on a basic tier to switch to satellite or other cable services that do.
The Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network, which controls broadcast rights to the New York Yankees baseball team, claims Cablevision has refused to carry the channel on its basic tier to limit competition against its MSG and Fox Sports New York cable channels.
Weiser sketched out three basic tiers of ubiquitous computing devices based on interactive display technology: tabs (small, wearable); pads (handheld, mobile); boards (large, fixed).
