Posted on 12/30/2008 8:11:47 PM PST by Libloather
Viacom threatens to pull MTV off Time Warner Cable
Associated Press - December 30, 2008 10:33 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Viacom is threatening to pull MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon and 16 other channels from Time Warner Cable if a new carriage fee deal is not agreed upon by midnight Wednesday.
A Time Warner spokesman says Viacom is seeking "an exorbitant increase in their carriage fees."
Viacom has asked for fee increases of between 22 and 36% per channel, adding up to tens of millions of dollars per year, an amount that Time Warner says would cause an increase in customers' cable bills. But Viacom contends that the increases would cost less than 25 cents a month per subscriber.
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What part of symbiotic don’t they understand?
Oh No! What shall I do??!
How can I get them off my cable? I’d seriously consider paying more just to get them out of my home.
Thanks for providing the list. TV Land is about the only one I think I would. I like watching Andy Griffith.
Unfortunately, I think TW would replacement with more shopping channels or other useless themed networks.
If they let you do that then crap like BET, Univision etc would all be out of business. We can only hope.
“When did MTV get rid of the music videos anyway?”
When it became the “Youth Depravity Network”.
We can only hope!
Thank-you Viacom, now will my TWC bill go down. I do not think so!!!
Get DirecTV. No foreseeable problems with them yet and the picture is so much better than cable.
Wow - that is quite a hike.
I pulled the plug on my TWC about a month ago, except for internet. 500 channels of crap I can easily do without.
A couple on there I might miss - TVLand and Nick - but I can get by without them. Maybe TW can fill those spots with some of the local over the air digital channels that are hard to pull in with rabbit ears. Or perhaps they could cut the bill $5 or so.
“What Satan meant for evil”..maybe this cause (less) people to watch that PERVERTED 90% CR*P. Viacom has stood for evil for years..good ridance!
It started around 1988. They need to change MTV to RTV since 90% of their programming is reality type shows.
You have this racist thing going by any chance?
I agree, Although our area has Comcast (which I also hate), I love TCM and AMC!
do you? seems like it’s the racist who always brings race into a discussion.
Nope, not a single one.
In fact all of those I recognized have been channel blocked on my television for as long as I’ve been aware of then.
Go ahead Warner, dump the chumps.
Not that it matters, but a lot of people might be pulling their Time Warner Cable before long. ‘Guess they think it’s a good economy.
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