On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote:
> Les wants more money from Time Warner Cable to retransmit the owned > stations of America's Number 1 Network, including NY and LA, and claims > that TWC regularly pays higher subscriber fees to cable networks with > smaller audiences than the Eye (espn), TWC says that they don't want to > raise rates, Les retorts that they can absorb the costs and still have > outrageous profits--the deadline was today, but has been moved to Thursday > because the FCC doesn't allow cable systems to drop OTA nets during sweeps > and July sweeps end tomorrow night: > > > http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/cbs-time-warner-cable-retrans-dispute-deadline-extended-rhetoric-heats-105246 > Les Moonves just declared and won the 30-Minute War ***************** "At midnight ET, after multiple temporary extensions, CBS and Time Warner Cable failed to come to terms on a new retransmission consent agreement, and the companies say CBS feeds will be pulled as soon as possible. Update: Shortly after 12:30 AM Time Warner Cable said in a statement that is returning CBS network signals to subscribers. It is unclear whether this is another temporary extension, or a permanent deal." “We are now at war with Time Warner Cable,” CBS CEO Les Moonves said to the LA Times’ Joe Flint." http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cbs-pulled-from-time-warner-cable-cbs-ceo-we-are-now-at-war_b189961 **************** Well, I guess "won" is premature. As tvnewser says: "Stay tuned." -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
