Two million subscribers of Optimum pay-TV systems are going without 63 Nexstar Media Group local stations and cable network NewsNation due to a carriage dispute. The network and stations went dark at 5 p.

Nexstar’s WPIX in New York and NewsNation are among the TV properties that can no longer be seen on cable systems owned by Altice, in the latest carriage dispute to erupt in the industry. Nexstar said Friday that 63 of its local TV stations had gone dark in 42 markets around the U.

Optimum offered an extension to keep Nexstar's content on the air while we continued to negotiate to reach a fair deal for our customers, but Nexstar refused. Optimum issues the following statement on its carriage negotiations with Nexstar and customer-friendly options available to Optimum customers: "Unfortunately,