On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
And I suspect that FNC doesn't want to find out exactly how poor the response would be when they try to get TWC subscribers to raise a fuss on their behalf. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
