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 The 48-day blackout of the MSG Network on Time Warner Cable is over. 
  
 And fans can thank Jeremy Lin, with an assist from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. 
  
 The impasse was 37 days old when Lin became the Knicks’ starting point guard, and his success has become a global phenomenon. Going into Friday night’s loss against the New Orleans Hornets, the Knicks had won each of his six starts, and ratings had soared. 
  
 But Time Warner Cable customers around the state — including those in Chinatown — could not witness Lin’s rapid rise without finding a friend or relative with a different TV provider or heading to a sports bar. 
  
 Cuomo said during a radio interview on WOR-AM that the fans’ clamoring for Lin “heightened the pressure” on MSG and Time Warner Cable to reach the agreement that he helped to arrange. 
  
 “It is not good to annoy consumers,” Cuomo said on former Gov. David A. Paterson’s radio program. 
  
 Executives of the companies had not talked since December until a meeting Monday at Time Warner’s offices between James L. Dolan, executive chairman of Madison Square Garden, and Glenn A. Britt, chairman of Time Warner Cable. On Wednesday, Cuomo called both men. 
  
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 An administration official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Cuomo told Britt, “The team is hot” — the governor is a basketball fan — “and it’s in your best interests to make a deal.” 
  
 Dolan and Britt met again Friday at the Garden headquarters. Their tentative, oral deal came in time for Time Warner customers to see the Knicks play the Hornets at 8 p.m. Friday on MSG and for the Devils’ game against Anaheim on MSG Plus. 
  
 “Our office has worked diligently with Time Warner Cable and MSG Networks over the last month to bring about a resolution to their dispute,” said Eric T. Schneiderman, the state attorney general. 
  
 No financial terms were announced, and no one from either company was available for comment. 
  
 Both sides thanked Cuomo, N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern and Schneiderman in a joint statement that offered no details of the settlement. 
  
 The companies feuded in print and television ads even before the blackout began on Jan. 1 over what Time Warner would pay to continue to carry MSG and MSG Plus. Time Warner insisted that MSG had reneged on a deal to raise its rates 6.5 percent and instead demanded a 53 percent increase. 
  
 MSG called the claims inaccurate but never countered with any figures. 
  
 By the time the plug was pulled, Lin’s breakout was still more than a month away. And Rangers, Devils, Islanders and Buffalo Sabres fans had not stirred up enough of a political storm to end the fight. 
  
 Lin’s emergence changed that, despite a season with the Rangers in first place. 
  
 Nicole Brostoff, a Rangers fan who is a fund-raiser for a nonprofit organization, said: “It’s been an emotional upheaval, but I’m elated today. The Rangers are No. 1, but we weren’t loud enough.” 
  
 Gil Rotkin, a lawyer, said he left his Manhattan apartment to watch four games at City Crab, a restaurant on East 18th Street. “I’m afraid their business will go down without me,” he said. 
  
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 Time Warner has more than 2 million customers statewide, and one service area where interest in Lin was at a fever pitch was Chinatown. But many fans could not watch him at home. 
  
 On Wednesday, about 20 community groups met with officials from MSG to voice their displeasure with what they perceived as the unwillingness of the companies to meet the needs of local residents. Before Friday’s settlement, several Chinese groups were planning to hold protests on Saturday and Tuesday and invite elected officials to take part. 
  
 “I think our message was heard because I think they realized that Asian-Americans carry some weight and are willing to spend money to see Jeremy Lin to play,” said Justin Yu, a member of Community Board 3 and the president of the board of Confucius Plaza, which has about 800 apartments that were unable to see Knicks games. “If they didn’t continue to talk in good faith, we were going to drop Time Warner Cable.” 
  
 During the blackout, many people sought out bars and restaurants with television providers that carried MSG. Although Knicks games are back on Time Warner, restaurant owners said they were confident that patrons would keep coming to their shops on game nights, especially those who do not have cable television at home. 
  
 “For Chinese people, it’s all about soccer and basketball,” said Wallace Lai, the owner of the Hong Kong Station noodle restaurants on Bayard and Division Streets. 
  
 Lee Berke, a former MSG executive who is the president of a media consulting firm, said: “Time Warner lost control of the story when Chinatown couldn’t’ see Jeremy Lin. The single greatest investment MSG ever made was picking up Jeremy Lin’s contract. For the record, I’d like to be his agent.” 
  
 The restoration of order pleased Ben Bass, a Knicks and Devils fan. He won’t have to cross the street to his brother’s apartment in Manhattan to watch MSG on DirecTV, as he did to see one Devils game. 
  
 “The nice part of coming home after work is watching casually,” Bass said. He had seen only one Knicks game with Lin playing — on ESPN — and said, “I definitely felt like I was missing out on something.” ||||| Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com ||||| Chalk up another win for Jeremy Lin. 
  
 Time Warner Cable and MSG have settled their long-running dispute, which means that the bulk of New York cable viewers will again get to watch Knicks games. 
  
 The settlement came after increased pressure on the two sides thanks to an outbreak of Linsanity — the brilliant play of newcomer Lin, who has electrified the city. 
  
 This week even City Council Speaker Christine Quinn got into the skirmish, warning the sides they had two weeks to resolve their disagreement or she’d call them before the council. 
  
 But it apparently was Gov. Cuomo who gets a big assist. 
  
 The New York Times, which first reported the settlement, said Cuomo intervened in the past 24 hours. 
  
 Cuomo hailed the deal in a statement today. 
  
 “I applaud both Mr. Dolan and Mr. Britt and their companies. I thank them for being responsive to the needs of New Yorkers,” the governor said. 
  
 Time Warner Cable and MSG execs met this week for the first time since December amid a growing clamor for the games to return to the cable company as the team went on a winning streak, thanks in part to Lin’s play. 
  
 MSG ratings have surged as Lin has turned the Knicks into must-see TV. Average ratings are up 87 percent in the Lin Era, all 11 days of it. 
  
 The rating for Tuesday’s game against the Raptors was 4.66 and drew 344,272 households, the highest-rated MSG game since Carmelo Anthony’s debut last year. Time Warner’s Facebook page has been all but hijacked by complaining customers. 
  
 The two were fighting over what are called carriage fees, the amount a cable company pays to a network. 
  
 Today Quinn said, “I want to thank the MSG Network and Time Warner Cable for coming to a deal that will put the Knicks and the Rangers back on TV. Now, a million more New Yorkers will be able to go Linsane in the privacy of their own living room. I’m looking forward to watching the return of Carmelo Anthony for the Knicks and Henrik Lundqvist in goal for the Rangers.” ||||| MSG Network, Time Warner Cable blackout ends Deal was pushed by Governor Cuomo, sources say 
  
 Is there anything Jeremy Lin can't do? 
  
 City Council Speaker Christine Quinn confirmed in a triumphant press statement reports that Time Warner Cable and MSG Network had ended their nearly two-month long standoff as political and populist pressure intensified over the past few days thanks in large part to Linsanity. 
  
 "I want to thank the MSG-Network and Time Warner Cable for coming to a deal that will put the Knicks and the Rangers back on TV. Now, a million more New Yorkers will be able to go Linsane in the privacy of their own living room. I'm looking forward to watching the return of Carmelo Anthony for the Knicks and Henrik Lundqvist in goal for the Rangers." 
  
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 A Time Warner spokesman declined to comment on the reported deal and spokesmen for the MSG Network did not immediately return requests for comment. It was not immediately clear when the network would return to the air. 
  
 Sources said that Governor Andrew Cuomo got involved by phone in the deal over the past few days, which helped give the deal a final push through. 
  
 “I applaud both Mr. Dolan and Mr. Britt and their companies,” Cuomo said in a statement. “I thank them for being responsive to the needs of New Yorkers.” 
  
 Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has also been involved over the past few weeks. After weeks of silence towards each other, the two sides said they began talking again this week. 
  
 THE LINSANE DEAL: POLS REACT TO TIME WARNER, MSG NETWORK DEAL 
  
 The agreement came after Knicks and Rangers fans had to look elsewhere to watch their favorite teams for 48 days. 
  
 "I'm not surprised if politicians got involved that it got done,” one industry executive said. “I'm more surprised that it went so many weeks without any conversations. And then this kid Lin comes along and he really is the catalyst to all this because it's never about terms of these deals it's only about the money and you would have thought they would have figured out a way to get it done sooner.” 
  
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Output:
New Yorkers with cable can finally watch Jeremy Lin on a regular basis: MSG and Time Warner reached a deal today to end a 48-day impasse, reports the New York Times. It means the Knicks and Rangers will be on TV again. How much of a role did Linsanity play in ratcheting up pressure for a deal? Who knows, but the Times, Wall Street Journal, and especially the New York Post and Daily News all mention the Knicks star prominently in their coverage of the deal. Apparently, Gov. Cuomo had a little say in the matter, too.