My dear Cablevision and Scripps: 

If your two organizations put as much effort into contract negotiations as you have in advertising to consumers that "it's the other party's fault", my wife could be watching HGTV and the OS editor Judy Berman could be watching the Food Network.

Scripps, nice of you to tell me that I have other options in the Connecticut community where I live to watch your programming. All I have to do is switch providers. Like I'm going to change my phone, internet and cable out so I can watch two, yeah two freaking channels.

Let's see I'd have to notify everyone of the change of my e-mail addresses, and my phone number. That's a lot of work just to watch a four year old episode of Holmes on Homes. I can do that in my spare time. NOT! I don't want to talk about the location of your brains, but if you ever got "Monteczuma's Revenge" you'd blow your mind.

Scripps shorter message to consumers: F- you!

Well thanks very kindly. The same to you and yours.

Cablevision, you've had such success with your NBA franchise the New York Knicks the past several years, you just want some of that karma to spill over into your other business units. Well you are very good at Dolan out crap...no, not a typo, Dolan is the name of the family that owns Cablevision and the Knicks.

Ebenezer Scrooge is a spendthrift compared to the parsimony in the Dolan family. So it's hardly your fault that Scripps took their channels down on January 1 st. In fact, you'd like me to help you get them to put those channels back. By writing to Scripps. Yeah right. You can expect me to do that sometime between 12-4 pm. Between now and DOOMSDAY.

Grow up and sit down and negotiate. What's the freaking problem? You're going to pass on whatever extra you have to pay Scripps onto the backs of the consumer, anyway.  That's the cable industry modus operandi.

Cablevision's shorter message to consumers: F-you, too, but it's really Scripps fault.

Well Dolan family why do you just take this universal remote I've got here,  and use it to take your temperature, rectally, of course.

 Very truly yours,

OE  Sheepdog who is sick and tired of being sick and tired.

 P.S. Four year olds are better at resolving disputes than you are.