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The Knicks are having one helluva season. For the first time since 1975, they have two starters on the All Star team. And the Rangers? They\u2019ve been on a tear since the calendar hit 2025.<\/p>\n
Weary New York sports fans have earned this joy.<\/p>\n
But for over a million Optimum subscribers across New York, New Jersey and Conn, there\u2019s only agita.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s because the cable provider has had a blackout of the MSG Network since New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
No Knicks, no Rangers, no Devils or Islanders. Nada. A big fat goose egg. A blank screen.<\/p>\n
The consolation prize for fans who are still paying full price for this insult? They can pay an extra $30 a month for the Gotham sports app. Gee, thanks.<\/p>\n
But how much can sports fans be squeezed just to enjoy their local pro teams during the regular season?<\/p>\n
My X feed is filled with angry fans literally screaming, \u201cI want My MSG.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox Sports personality Craig Carton and actor Hank Azaria are among the celebrities who have sounded off. Politicians across the tri-state, including all three attorney generals of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, have implored both sides to come to a resolution.<\/p>\n
I am hearing from friends and friends of friends. Nonstop. They feel ripped off, slighted and like Optimum is flipping them the bird.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Allen, a 29-year-old recruiter in East Meadow, Long Island, told me, \u201cSports is the only reason I have cable and now I can\u2019t even watch the games. I guess I was naive thinking it would get resolved right away. What a rude awakening.\u201d The die-hard Knicks fan is shopping options.<\/p>\n
Russ Lella, a 55-year-old high school teacher in Melville, watches every regular season Knicks game.<\/p>\n
But he spent his Christmas vacation on the phone with Optimum. \u201cI said, \u2018Look, you dropped my channel.\u2019 They kept telling me what I did have.\u201d<\/p>\n
When he told them he was switching providers, he said, Optimum kept him on the phone for 90 minutes, offering discounts.He still left.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a teacher, so I was off that week and had the time,\u201d Lella said. \u201cMy friends, who are too busy with work to deal with this nonsense, are angry. When I went to turn in my equipment, there were literally 20 other people there doing the same because they can\u2019t get MSG.\u201d<\/p>\n
My college friend Billy Johnson, who hosts the Big Apple sports podcast \u201cFree Oakley,\u201d said his phone hasn\u2019t known peace since the blackout.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Long Island friends are totally screwed. I\u2019m the only one on my text chains who can actually watch the games,\u201d he said. \u201cMy best friend sits in his car in his driveway in the freezing cold and listens to the Knicks games on the radio. It\u2019s insane.\u201d<\/p>\n
And the timing is a major slap in the face.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood Knicks seasons don\u2019t grow on trees,\u201d Johnson pointed out. \u201cAnd devoted fan are being deprived. They are being held hostage by a couple corporate types.\u201d<\/p>\n
MSG and Altice, which owns Optimum, have waged open warfare against each other online. On Tuesday, MSG Networks offered a truce in the form of third-party arbitration. Optimum called it a \u201cnothing more than a pr stunt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Look, I\u2019m not in the boardroom. I\u2019m that person in the living room. Most of us are. And we just want the simple pleasure of watching our local teams, not watching our bank accounts dwindle as we add streaming service after streaming service, simply to have access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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