Gee, a cable/satellite system vs. sports network hassle. What else is new?
The Dish Network satellite carrier — which serves thousands of subscribers in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island, Upstate and in Connecticut — is prepared to drop SNY tonight at midnight, on the eve of the Mets’ opener at the Marlins tomorrow — and no agreement seems imminent.
Apparently, rights fee money is not an issue as much as whether Colorado-based Dish wishes to remain a deliverer of New York’s regional sports networks. It has carried SNY since its birth five years ago, but several months ago dropped MSG’s networks, and it never has provided YES.