Despite their parent company owning competition, Time Warner Cable signed a 
new carriage agreement with Fox News Channel putting them in TNT/TBS/USA 
territory of eventually well over $1 a subscriber, if not in ESPN's 
territory (Kagan says that their current average carriage fee is 89 cents, 
which is described is "undervalued"):
 
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-foxtwc-20120807,0,2397383.story
 
Article author Joe Flint tweeted to compliment TWC and FNC to avoid the 
dramatics of the recent AMC/Dish Network and Viacom/DirecTV-Tribune 
Co./DirecTV negotiations.  I suspect that TWC is scared of offending FNC's 
teabagger fans more than they are Roger or Rupert.

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