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RemyM wrote:

 

Uverse could offer them $10 per sub and they still wouldn't sell it to them.  It's about subscribers to the cable service not viewers for MSG.

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I disagree that it's about subscribers to the cable service.  It's about money.  MSG HD has been missing from U-Verse for a long time, so any customer who really wants this channel has already switched to Cablevision.  Cablevision can't pick up any more customers over MSG HD.

If Cablevision grants AT&T redistribution rights, then Cablevision potentially loses some customers.  They have to weigh the loss of those customers vs. the gain in revenue from whatever AT&T wants to pay them for it.  If there's more money to be made by licensing to AT&T, then they'll do it.