News Update: The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love, Dominates Monday Night Ratings (DIS,CVC)
3/2/2010-According to preliminary reports, Disney (NYSE:DIS) subsidiary abc’s The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love dominated Monday night ratings. The two-hour final episode earned 15.5 million viewers. The news comes amid an interesting fee battle between Cablevision (NYSE:CVC) and Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS), which was triggered Monday when Disney warned that it might impose a blackout of ABC in New York for Cablevision subscribers. “It is shocking that in these difficult economic times, ABC Disney is threatening to remove WABC unless Cablevision and its customers pay $40 million in new fees for programming that it offers today for free, both over-the-air and online,” said Cablevision Executive Vice President Charles Schueler