What do you do if you're a cable chanel, and one of your networks drop you, effectively cutting your audience by about 14 million people? Well, if you're AMC, you sick zombies on the streets of New York, obviously. While I don't quite follow the logic, it does make for some great footage.
Why the drop in the first place? Cable battles aren't my forte, but according to CNN, "The two companies have waged a legal war for over four years. In 2008, AMC Networks and its then-parent company, Cablevision, sued Dish for $2.5 billion for breaching its 2005 carriage contract with Voom HD, a suite of channels created by a Cablevision subsidiary. The dispute centers on whether Dish violated the contract when it dropped Voom because, Dish claims, Voom didn't spend enough money on programming."
A trial is set for September 18th in the New York Supreme Court. Just in case the two don't solve their differences by then, AMC is putting out of luck zombiephiles in the know as to where they CAN watch "The Walking Dead."
