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Message: [QUOTE="TDTOrange, post: 419083, member: 509"] The difference could be how BTN gets packaged to TWCNY (and any other cable operator). In order to continue to carry YES, they may now require that BTN be carried on the same basic tier of service at the time of the next carriage agreement negotiation. So instead of BTN only being available on the Sports Tier and BTN receiving $0.80 per subscriber (or whatever the current rate is) it could now need to be required to be carried on the basic tier at $1.20 per subscriber which means beaucoup bucks for the B1G (more subscribers and more $$ per). It doesn't matter if anyone is watching the channel locally, you're still paying for it as it will be baked into your cable bill. TWCNY won't mess with the YES network or risk thousands of Yankees fans switching to a provider that does, so as a result you get to pay a higher cable bill to get the Yankees and as a side effect, you also get BTN. [/QUOTE]