Posted on 12/31/2009 10:37:53 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Brighthouse Networks in Central Florida says no deal with Fox either...Fox will go dark in Central Florida as of 12:01 AM. I remember last year it was Viacom doing this with MTV, CMT, VH1, Nickelodeon etc...
Clock Ticking As Bright House-Fox Talks Continue
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Chris Fenger of Bright House Networks 12/30/2009
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ORLANDO — Negotiations are continuing between Bright House Networks and News Corporation, the parent company of the Fox network.
Fox is threatening to pull many of its channels from your Bright House Networks cable lineup if a deal isnt reached by the midnight New Years Eve deadline.
Starting with the Sugar Bowl, popular events and shows on Foxs family of 11 networks might be pulled off Bright House Networks cable by Fox beginning Jan. 1.
Bright House is working with Fox to keep them from pulling their programming, but Bright Houses Central Florida Division President Chris Fenger said Fox is being unreasonable.
We have seen dramatic increases in the demands made by owners. This is the latest round, and its pretty egregious, Fenger said.
Fox owns local affiliate WOFL. WOFL sends its programming signal over the air for free. Now Fox wants cable companies like Bright House Networks and Time Warner - to pay for re-transmitting that over-the-air signal.
Thats in addition to the payment Fox is already receiving for their cable programming.
A News Corporation spokesman e-mailed us the following statement:
Our position in these negotiations is entirely reasonable — we are simply asking for fair compensation for the impressive value our FOX programming offers.
The statement also said that Fox will continue to negotiate.
Fenger said Foxs demands put cable subscribers pocketbooks in peril.
This is a precedent setting negotiation if Fox can get what they are seeking then its going to give license every other programmer out there to make the some sort of demands, and cable bills will skyrocket, Fenger said.
Since Bright House regularly negotiates dozens of re-transmission agreements each year — most without issue — the issue this time with Fox, could be, according to the Wall Street Journal, that Fox is asking for more than twice what other broadcast networks receive.
Bright House Networks is the parent company of News 13.
They’d better have it back on before Idol and 24 debut, or there may be riots.
But, I’m on Comcast, so what do I care?
SnakeDoc
Good riddance Time Warner Cable..we have been loyal Adelphia, then Time Warner Cable customers for years, then they pull this crap. First they take away The Weather Channel, Family Channel, and Oxygen Network, now they are taking away Fox from me..I am through with them, we are just going to keep Time Warner Internet since I don’t have any available DSL in my area, but we are switching to The Dish Network(My sister has dish so she would get a 50 dollar credit) What do you all think, is Dish better then Directv?
I have already lost several of my favorite channels recently because of this kind of thing... if I lose fox I will cancel immediately.
Time Warner is about to lose a lot of customers.
Ping.
I would be losing Fox 11 Los Angeles, KCOP 13, Fox Sports Net(No more Laker games, this means WAR!), Fox Sports Prime Ticket, FX, Speed, Fuel TV, Fox Soccer Channel, and Fox Sports in Spanish(Which I dont even have)
I have Mediacom and they are having the same trouble with Sinclair that owns a bunch of TV stations. Maybe I need to start thinking about Direct TV.
I’ve never had DirectTV but I have had Dish for 14 years and have had no problems with them.
43% say no.
FR thread on it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418397/posts
The CEO of Time Warner, Jeff Bewkes, donated to Obama, Schumer, Dodd, Reid and the late Ted Kennedy.
My TWC bill is high enough.
FOX can eff off.
But what we really need is cafeteria cable. I’m paying for MTV and other useless channels I don’t want.
I need the right to pick and choose what networks and channels I want. And I will pay for them.
Well this is going to be the biggest boon to DirecTV in history. Now if Murdoch still owned DirecTV there would be a federal anti-trust investigation going. But he doesn’t and maybe this story explains why.
I dont watch the shows on THEIR time that they tell me.I just download the shows for later viewing by bittorrent.
[[Our position in these negotiations is entirely reasonable we are simply asking for fair compensation for the impressive value our FOX programming offers.]]
‘Impressive Value’ Eh? I get more enjoyment out of watching Turner Classics than I do any of Fox’s lame stations which repeat mindless material ad nauseum. as for the news- Meh- plenty of conservative sites o nthe net will update our family just fine, and we won’t have to endure windbags like O’Reilly apologizing for the obama administration and making excuses for the left as the left tramples our constutional rights.
Fox keeps braggign about how they re stomping hte competetition, but if they keep tryign crap like htis- they will be trailing hte competetion before long- So yeah fox- keep screwing the public who are already paying WAY MORE than they ought to for crappy TV
All Fox channels EXCEPT Fox News are involved here.
[[Time Warner is about to lose a lot of customers.]]
You bet they are- and Fox is also cutting off their noses to spite their faces as well
[[What do you all think, is Dish better then Directv?]]
Fox isn’t just goign after cable, they are goign after satelite too- this iwll affect satelitye as well
Well, another good reason to get rid of Time Warner..because of idiotic polls like that run by Time Warner Cable
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