(From The USA Today -- By Michael Hiestand)
THE OUTDOOR LIFE NETWORK (OLN), in about 64 million households, will offer its NHL opener October 5th, at no cost, to any cable operator or satellite TV provider.
But OLN, which is owned by cable operator COMCAST and is paying about $70 million annually to air the ratings-challenged sport, is telling carriers that at least 40% of their subscribers have to get OLN in order to keep airing its NHL games. That could cut off about 4 million households now getting OLN.
OLN's biggest target is CABLEVISION, which has about 3 million TV households in the New York area and offers OLN as a premium-priced channel that has only attracted about 25,000 households. The corporate spat adds spice to OLN's opener --
the COMCAST-owned Philadelphia Flyers vs. CABLEVISION's
New York Rangers -- and might even lead to a postgame parking lot rumble between the two corporations' accountants.
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