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CBS to R.I. -- Phil and Rachael Ain't Free!

The good people of Rhode Island might need to shell out $5 a head if they want to keep watching shows like "Dr. Phil" and "Rachael Ray."

CBS is suing Global Broadcasting -- which owns WLNE in Providence, R.I. -- claiming the station hasn't paid them fully for airing the shows "ET," "The Insider," Dr. Phil," "Inside Edition" and "Rachael Ray." In a lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court, CBS claims WLNE has only shelled out $682,023.50 of the $2,852,564 they owe (leaving a balance of roughly $2.1 mil).

Now get this -- CBS claims WLNE has now decided to stop airing the shows before their contract is up, resulting in another $2.7 mil in damages. That brings the grand total to just shy of $5 million.

Do the math -- if each of Rhode Island's roughly one million residents chip in a five spot, they can cover the lawsuit themselves!

Tags: dr phil, DrPhil, inside edition, InsideEdition, lawsuit, rachael ray, RachaelRay

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1. I wish my local station would renege as well... most shows could disappear and no one would notice... b elieve me.

Posted at 1:34AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Iam Smartman

2. Not a fan. I wouldn't pay 5 cents to listen to either of those blow-hards. And those en-fo-tain-ment shows? I'd rather read a good book . From what I gather from the promos , they all seem to simultaneously cover the same topics.

Posted at 1:43AM on Jun 17th 2009 by I am

3. I agree with #1.
Rachel always sounds like she has laryngitis and Dr. Phil wouldn't help an old lady across the street unless she paid him $5

Posted at 2:01AM on Jun 17th 2009 by It\\\'s Good To Be Me!!!

4. Call it a stupidity tax.

Posted at 2:31AM on Jun 17th 2009 by TruckNutz

5. I would sell my first born son and parts of Mexico to keep Rachael Ray on the air.

Posted at 2:53AM on Jun 17th 2009 by fishfrog44

6. And why did this come to my inbox with the subject line "Rianna Sued"????? LOL

Posted at 3:36AM on Jun 17th 2009 by wtf

7. Dr phil is a bag of gas in a suit.

Posted at 3:22AM on Jun 17th 2009 by The Truth

8. The Cable companies are just soaking us all.

Posted at 3:45AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Jon D

9. On June 8th 2009 Mr. Letterman “joked” that a female Governor of the United States is “slutty” this is what fascists do they call people names give them negative labels because they do not agree with their agenda. They try to make them less human with their words. Discredit them. Letterman himself had a child out of wed lock. But he appoints himself as the morals police. CBS backed Letterman up with their silence. Watch another network, stop supporting fascists on TV.

Posted at 5:27AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Jess

10. CBS is worried about payment for shows NO ONE WATCHES .... THEY SHOULD BE FIRING LETTERMAN FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON 14 and 18 year old girls! NBC FIRED IMUS!!!!! COME ON CBS WHERE IS YOUR CLASS AND MORALS......OOPS FORGOT THEIR IN THE TOILET WITH PEOPLE LIKE LETTERMAN ON YOUR NETWORK!!!!

CBS is really in the TOILET NOW!!!

Posted at 6:12AM on Jun 17th 2009 by just saying

11. You're beautiful!

Posted at 6:41AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Kenneth

12. In analog or digital happen long ago...Network gaydar mobsters won`t give up spying on the masses.VIa radar soundscan tower cams earth mics themo imageing cil air waves public broadcast waves so on.They fear that thier ownership of the justics cops judges city folks will end and they won`t have any movies or songs to ripoff from real artistes living in a radar age.Why should the people have to pay for old old systems that are NOT needed anymore.Satellites and optical cable is the new standard years ago.Dave price masoical mobsters should be in jail for dispatching mob hords and robert cheney/dick cheney atre busted for murder one killing little girls with the gables as in gerry.Thier rightwing mobsterism are DOA.

Posted at 7:07AM on Jun 17th 2009 by TV death

13. 4. I would sell my first born son and parts of Mexico to keep Rachael Ray on the air.

Posted at 2:53AM on Jun 17th 2009 by fishfrog44
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SICK people like you shouldn't be alowed to have children.

Posted at 7:38AM on Jun 17th 2009 by lp

14. 4. I would sell my first born son and parts of Mexico to keep Rachael
Ray on the air.

Posted at 2:53AM on Jun 17th 2009 by fishfrog44
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SICK people like you shouldn't be allowed to have children.

Posted at 7:39AM on Jun 17th 2009 by lp

15. Posted at 5:27AM on Jun 17th 2009 by Jess - YOUR A MORON - go kill yourself you douche bag. No one give 2 craps about you or the little world you live in. Comedians make jokes, period. Stop being so thin skinned. Palin's family is disfunctional and she had a teen daughter get pregnant. Goes directly to her parents skill to raise children.

Posted at 8:05AM on Jun 17th 2009 by The REAL DEAL

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