Here’s the Ithaca Minute from 14850 Today for February 6th.

If you wanted to watch “The Resident” or “Lucifer” on Monday night, tough. The primetime FOX shows were among the casualties as Northwest Broadcasting and Charter Communications, aka Spectrum, fought over a contract renewal and pulled the plug on the network broadcasts.

Cable or satellite companies, which must pay local broadcasters to carry network affiliates and other local channels, and the local or regional media companies who own the broadcasters, often disagree about what’s a fair price, and contract negotiations sometimes come to a head at renewal time.

The Ithaca area’s hills make for spotty over-the-air television reception, but some area residents can tune in the programming with an antenna or other means.

A school bus was rear-ended by a car early Tuesday morning in Dryden in what interim superintendent William S. Locke calls “a minor accident.” No injuries were reported.

The Dryden Central School District sent another bus to pick up the students, and Mr. Locke says “the run will be late and no one will be considered tardy.”

And a three-game week for Cornell women’s ice hockey starts with a Tuesday game against Syracuse and includes the annual DIFD game on Friday.

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