​The standoff between Fox parent company News Corp. and Cablevision has ended after a two-week blackout, with local Fox affiliates restored to local television sets just prior to Saturday night's World Series game three. Today, New Yorkers can watch the Jets vs. Packers. Life is sports.

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​We told you this morning about the dispute between Cablevision and Fox parent company News Corp., which resulted in three million homes in the New York area losing access to the television stations Fox 5 and My9. As Saturday progressed, the battle got uglier, with News Corp. blocking Cablevision customers from watching Fox shows on both Hulu.com and Fox.com. This was Rupert Murdoch's corporate giant telling James Dolan's not-so-puny Cablevision that the two were playing hardball and without the appropriate compensation, customers get nothing. Then, all of a sudden, the News Corp. brass changed its mind, possibly fearing bad press, and decided to turn on Cablevision access to Fox shows online. What in the hell is going on?

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​Cablevision customers in the New York area lost their access to Fox 5 and My9 last night when the channel's parent company News Corp. "pulled the plug" over contract disputes, CNN is reporting. The corporate jockeying may sound boring, but has very real effects for anyone hoping to watch Game 1 of the National League Championship Series, between the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants, or Montel Williams' Healthmaster at noon. Also, eventually the World Series, if the beef persists.

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​So, you're in the corporate communications department of a very big company whose chairman has a reputation for being so aggressive with the press as to invoke comparisons to swatting flies with hammers. Something not nice is written about your boss in a very concise, if generally cheeky and/or obscene, manner. There are three ways to handle this situation:

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​Gothamist -- the New York City metro news blog and subsequent locally-based "Ist" properties -- long a punchline among bloggers who poked at its overly excitable tones about the varying news minutiae it covered, finally gave themselves something to giggle over: a long-rumored multi-million dollar buyout possibly coming to fruition. But for whom, and at what cost?

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