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[QUOTE="ConnectiCuse, post: 553599, member: 675"]
[URL='http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-fi-ct-cable-lawsuit-20130227,0,5370492.story']Cablevision's argument is that Viacom's bundling of channels is a violation of antitrust law.  They want to be able to offer channels a la carte - basically to drop the channels that nobody watches.[/URL] 
 
As to how this might affect realignment - who in NYC is going to select the B1G network if there is an a la carte option for cable?  I would guess very, very few - maybe the hardcore sports fans and the network certainly wouldn't have the millions of NYC eyeballs that it once thought it would have.  It would, in fact, completely destroy the B1G's reason for taking NJ State in the first place.  Of course, this could also impact the bundling of any ACC network channels with ESPN so I guess I'm not sure which side I'd like to see win.
 
As an aside, I think cable will be forced to go to an a la carte menu irrespective of the merits of this suit.
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