Altice, Nexstar and Optimum

At around 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, Altice USA, the parent company of Optimum, blacked out coverage for over 60 channels across the country owned by Nexstar Media Group, including WPIX local news ...
Two million subscribers of Optimum pay-TV systems are going without Nexstar Media Group local stations and cable network ...
Optimum agreed to a deal with Nexstar, which owns PIX 11 and The CW on WPIX, or Channel 11. But a deal with MSG Networks ...
Altice USA, which is a fourth-largest cable TV distributor with 2.3 million subscribers, may be positioning itself as other pay TV platforms such as DirecTV, Comcast and Charter have been doing.