For two months now, about 900,000 households rural America haven’t been able to watch Viacom’s Nickelodeon, MTV, TV Land or Comedy Central, as a result of a blackout of the channels by some 60 small cable operators affiliated with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC). So far, there is little evidence any more than a handful of the households care.
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For two months now, about 900,000 households rural America haven’t been able to watch Viacom’s Nickelodeon, MTV, TV Land or Comedy Central, as a result of a blackout of the channels by some 60 small cable operators affiliated with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC). So far, there is little evidence any more than a handful of the households care.
