timewarner is going to drop fox

[PublicOption]

good riddance tea baggers.

[mFFL03]

I think this is only up in the DFW area, I asked my friends in Austin and Houston and both were clueless.

Is this happening anywhere else?

[Ya Vez]

San Antonio Fox affiliate KABB, which is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, has an agreement with Time Warner that extends through next year, so it will not be affected. Fox News also is not affected by the dispute.

[Ya Vez]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Fox television's threatened blackout was avoided just before a midnight deadline when the network struck a deal with Time Warner Cable to briefly extend their contract as negotiations between the two companies continued.

Time Warner Cable Inc. made the announcement as the clock rolled past midnight Thursday on the East Coast.

The extension for just a few hours made it appear likely that a deal on fees would be reached, allowing viewers access to Friday's Sugar Bowl between the Florida Gators and the Cincinnati Bearcats. The Cotton Bowl on Saturday, the NFL's final regular season contests on Sunday and "The Simpsons" and other Fox shows were also at risk.

Fox had threatened to pull the signal from 14 TV stations it owns, a move that would have affected more than 6 million customers of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in New York, Los Angeles, Orlando, Fla., and other markets.

Six Fox cable channels, including FX, Speed and Fuel, were still being distributed as carriage arrangements on those channels didn't expire until midnight Pacific time.

The dispute focuses on how much Fox is paid by cable companies to retransmit stations' signals. Time Warner Cable and a smaller cable TV operator, Bright House Networks, have resisted paying a new $1 monthly fee per subscriber that News Corp. is demanding from both operators.

Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt has called the fee demand excessive and said the cable operator has reached deals for "much lower" rates with Fox affiliates - stations that carry Fox programming but are owned by other companies.

Fox has said it needs subscription revenue to supplement the advertising revenues that have supported its broadcast network up until now.

Separately, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, which owns broadcast stations in markets as large as Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, agreed to an eight-day extension for cable TV operator Mediacom Communications Corp. to carry Sinclair's Fox and CBS stations. Mediacom will pay Sinclair a higher rate than it was paying under a contract that also was expiring at midnight Thursday.

But in a sign of how talks can go awry, Cablevision Systems Corp. said early Friday that it had failed to reach a deal to continue carrying HGTV and Food Network for its 3.1 million subscribers in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, adding it had no expectation of carrying the signals again. The channels are owned by Cincinnati-based Scripps Networks Interactive Inc.

[iggypop123]

i have dish network. got nothing to worry about

[Viva Las Espuelas]

so are we talking about fox or faux?

[Blake]

all the cable/satellite companies suck, but it seems Time Warner sucks the most.

[EmptyMan]

Man, I'm starting to get tired of this Drama Queen Time Warner.


Good riddance TeaBaggers? lol. More like, good night sweet prince FoxSportsSW :depressed

[Heath Ledger]

Apparently they did not drop fox. A deal was struck.

[rjv]

lock.

[jack sommerset]

I would have swithed to dish. Time gets 150 a month from my house. No telling how much these cheap ass ho's make all over DFW.

[rjv]

this crap happens all the time. a network claims that they are going to drop from a provider because the provider is greedy and then the provider argues the same and then they reach agreement always at the "last second". and then the rates still go up.

[jack sommerset]

this crap happens all the time. a network claims that they are going to drop from a provider because the provider is greedy and then the provider argues the same and then they reach agreement always at the "last second". and then the rates still go up.

True dat motherfucker!