STEVE INSKEEP, Host: NPR's business news starts with a TV blackout.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, Host: Okay, the baseball playoffs are heating up, and the football season is well underway. But if you were a Cablevision subscriber in New York, you could not watch either sport over the weekend on Fox. A contract dispute between the cable operator and the News Corporation - Fox's parent company - left three million households without access to Fox programming. Fox wants Cablevision to pay $150 million per year for the programming, up from the current $70 million. With more football this weekend, and the World Series beginning soon, the companies resume talks today.
Negotiators for Cablevision and Fox parent News Corp. planned to resume talks Monday. They're trying to end a fee dispute that has left the cable company's three million subscribers in New York and Philadelphia without some of their favorite shows.