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Message: [QUOTE="cuse522, post: 432930, member: 1149"] That's what they're striving for. Right now in areas like the mid-Atlantic and NYC they are on a tier of sports channels, so they get paid based on how many people buy that package. Their goal is to force those cable companies to put them on the basic tier or withhold the channel all together, banking on the fans complaining about not seeing games if they withhold. In other words, 100,000 Rutgers fans complain and 10,000,000 New York/New Jersey folks get stuck paying extra for the B1G network. I figure they'll be complaining a lot, since most of Rutgers' games should be Tier 3 and below. Beautiful, aint it? And if that doesn't work, Newscorp's involvement means they can withhold other channels to get more people complaining. [/QUOTE]