Optimum cable owner Altice okayed pay raises for execs while refusing to refund subscribers for MSG blackout

Optimum cable owner Altice okayed pay raises for execs while refusing to refund subscribers for MSG blackout

Altice USA's board of directors approved raises for CEO Dennis Matthew and CFO Marc Sirota last week, according to documents filed with the SEC.

Optimum subscribers angry top execs get raises amid MSG Networks blackout

The Optimum-MSG Networks carriage dispute story took an unexpected turn Wednesday. No, the Altice USA-owned cable provider and MSG have not ended the dispute that led to a blackout that began Jan. 1 on Optimum. That blackout has left New York-area fans of the Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, and New Jersey Devils without a way to watch their favorite teams on the cable service. And no, the new development Wednesday didn’t involve Optimum issuing refu…