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== Carriage issues == [[File:MSNBC NJ HQ Studio 1.jpg|thumb|right|MSNBC's former New Jersey headquarters studio, now the home of [[MLB Network]]]] Before 2010, MSNBC was not available to [[Verizon FiOS]] and [[AT&T U-verse]] television subscribers in the portions of New York, northern [[New Jersey]], and [[Connecticut]] that overlapped [[Cablevision]]'s service area. One of several reasons for this was an exclusive carriage agreement between MSNBC and Cablevision that prohibited competing wired providers from carrying MSNBC.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 22, 2007 |title=Cablevision has exclusive carriage deal with MSNBC... |url=http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/cablevision-has-exclusive-fios-deal-with-msnbc-in-nyc// |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110413233648/http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2007/02/22/cablevision-has-exclusive-fios-deal-with-msnbc-in-nyc/ |archive-date=April 13, 2011 |access-date=May 11, 2011 |website=Inside Cable News }}</ref> The terms of the agreement were not publicly known.{{citation needed|date=November 2017}} In 2009, Verizon filed a formal "program-access complaint" with the [[Federal Communications Commission]] and petitioned for termination of the deal. In support of Verizon, Connecticut Attorney General [[Richard Blumenthal]] argued that the arrangement could be illegal.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Powderly II |first=Henry E. |date=July 9, 2009 |title=Blumenthal goes after Cablevision's MSNBC hold |work=[[Long Island Business News]] |url=https://libn.com/2009/07/09/blumenthal-goes-after-cablevisions-msnbc-hold/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028044816/https://libn.com/2009/07/09/blumenthal-goes-after-cablevisions-msnbc-hold/ |archive-date=October 28, 2021}}</ref> After entering into a new contract, FiOS added the channel in New York City and New Jersey on February 2, 2010.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Spangler |first1=Todd |date=January 28, 2010 |title=FiOS TV Finally Gets MSNBC In NY DMA β Cablevision Loses Exclusive Terrestrial Distribution Rights To News Channel |work=[[Multichannel News]] |url=http://www.multichannel.com/content/fios-tv-finally-gets-msnbc-ny-dma |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617105608/http://www.multichannel.com/content/fios-tv-finally-gets-msnbc-ny-dma |archive-date=June 17, 2013}}</ref>
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