Biz: Turning away money: Cablevision blocks Verizon ads in Newsday
- Customers are still coming to us, and the net of this is Cablevision doesn’t get the benefit of our revenue.
- Verizon Senior Vice President Eric Rabe • Discussing Cablevision’s policy of turning away Verizon’s FiOS ads in Newsday, despite the fact that they had been a high-paying advertiser in the paper for years. Cablevision bought Newsday last year and has made a lot of questionable decisions like this, according to Gawker. • source