Chris Birckhead came home Tuesday night hoping that his TiVo had recorded “Chopped,” his favorite show on the Food Network. Instead, it had recorded a looped commercial from Cablevision, his cable provider, saying the network’s owner, Scripps, had taken his show away.
About 3 million cable households in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have been affected by a bitter argument between the cable provider and Scripps Networks over how much Cablevision subscribers should pay for the Food Network and HGTV.
The feud has already dragged on for almost a week.
