Murdoch's latest US dispute with cable company rumbles on

Just returned from a week in NY and saw something very familiar there: a Rupert Murdoch channel, in this case Fox, holding a cable company (this time around it's CableVision) to ransom by demanding hugely inflated charges for its programming. Read more about this latest "sod the viewers - give us a lot more cash" battle at USA Today. Here are the headlines:

The US cable operator lost its right to retransmit programming from Fox-owned TV stations in New York and Philadelphia.
It also lost cable channels Fox Business Network, Nat Geo Wild and Fox Deportes.
That infuriated fans of Fox hits such as Glee and House, and baseball buffs who missed National League playoff games between the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants.
But the public outrage will be deafening — and could lead to far-reaching changes in the law governing TV programming deals — if the companies can't reach an agreement by Wednesday, when Fox begins to broadcast the World Series.

Sound familiar? It's only a short while ago they withdrew Sky One from Virgin Media...small world, same media barons...

UPDATED, Sunday Oct 31st:

Fox Networks and Cablevision announced today they have reached an agreement in principle for a new carriage agreement involving more than 3 million households through Connecticut, parts of New Jersey, the New York area and a small part of Philadelphia area.  The signals were restored Saturday prior to the first pitch of World Series Game 3 on Fox.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. An impasse between the two companies led to the loss of Fox programming on the Cablevision systems on Oct. 16.