joining us now, rebecca arbogast, media regulatory analyst at stifel nicolaus. what a situation, rebecca, what's going on, a lot of unhappy baseball fans tonight. what do you think happens next? >> well, this is a battle that brings in two great american traditions. sports and money. so unless there is some last minute standdown by one of the companies, there will be a number of folks in the cabl cablevision territory who are not going to be able to watch the world series. if the yankees as a home town team had made it into the world series, this would have been a battle of epic proportions. as it is, it's become one, a longer, but one in a line of mounting beatles between the distributors of tv and the programers tv. >> this has been going on for a couple of weeks now, and americans get pretty cranky when they can't watch their tv shows. why do you think that regulators at the federal communications commission didn't step in earlier to settle this whole negotiating problem? >> i think the last thing that government wants to get involved in is being drawn into w