Verizon asks FCC to force cable firm to negotiate TV sports channel rights

Not quite sure what this article is about, especially what "FiOS TV" but I'm thinking it will become clear in the future...

Verizon Communications Inc. wants the Celtics so badly that it's willing to make a federal case to get them.

The New York-based telecommunications company petitioned the Federal Communications Commission yesterday to force a competitor to negotiate over the rights to carry Fox Sports New England, home of Boston Celtics basketball games, on its new fiber-optic television service. The filing accuses a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp. of preventing Verizon's new FiOS TV service from offering the sports channel, and a similar one in New York, in violation of federal rules requiring cable companies to make so-called must-have programming available to competitors.