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AMC not "classic" enough for Time Warner Cable

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For those of you who believe American Movie Classics has gone down the MTV road in full-throttle, then you aren't alone: Time Warner Cable thinks so too, and they've gone to court about it.

Long Island's <u>Newsday</u> has the story in today's (7-12) issue...<P ID="signature">______________
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AMC used to be one of the best networks, now it's complete crap. Thank God for Turner Classics and Fox Movie Classics. They put AMC to shame!
 
> AMC used to be one of the best networks, now it's complete
> crap. Thank God for Turner Classics and Fox Movie Classics.
> They put AMC to shame!
>

AMEN.
 
> For those of you who believe American Movie Classics has
> gone down the MTV road in full-throttle, then you aren't
> alone: Time Warner Cable thinks so too, and they've gone to
> court about it.
>
> Long Island's Newsday has the story in today's (7-12)
> issue...
>

Maybe they could do the same for TVLand?


"And that's the bottom line cuz Stone Cold said so! "
 
> > AMC used to be one of the best networks, now it's complete
>
> > crap. Thank God for Turner Classics and Fox Movie
> Classics.
> > They put AMC to shame!
> >


I just don't understand. AMC adds commercials and starts
running movies you can get elsewhere, and according to the
article, they improve their ratings! Of course, I suppose
running newer, color movies means younger viewers are NOT
challenged by older styles or black-and-white film, God
forbid!

However, I really think Fox Movie Channel could do a
little better. Other than "Fox Hour of Stars" hosted by
Robert Wagner, its movies have no host to tell us the
inside story about each film or what its significance
is in the evolution of modern film-making.




Gregg
[email protected]
 
It just goes to show you, unfortunately, how low the audience actually is for the movies of the 30s & 40s these days, sans a few timeless classics like "Gone With the Wind," and "The Wizard of Oz."

AMC runs the same movies over and over, which are generally the same movies that TBS & the Superstations have been running into the ground for twenty years. But hey, when there aint anything else on, why not watch "The Blues Brothers" for the five hundreth time...

They should change the name of AMC, as the name no longer fits. The Three Stooges made for TV biopic, while entertaining, was hardly a classic...Just make it "American Movie Channel"



> > > AMC used to be one of the best networks, now it's
> complete
> >
> > > crap. Thank God for Turner Classics and Fox Movie
> > Classics.
> > > They put AMC to shame!
> > >
>
>
> I just don't understand. AMC adds commercials and starts
> running movies you can get elsewhere, and according to the
> article, they improve their ratings! Of course, I suppose
> running newer, color movies means younger viewers are NOT
> challenged by older styles or black-and-white film, God
> forbid!
>
> However, I really think Fox Movie Channel could do a
> little better. Other than "Fox Hour of Stars" hosted by
> Robert Wagner, its movies have no host to tell us the
> inside story about each film or what its significance
> is in the evolution of modern film-making.
>
>
>
>
> Gregg
> [email protected]
>
 
...and the winner..."Time Warner Cable"!!!

(From AdAge)

A judge yesterday ruled in favor of Time Warner Cable in its lawsuit with Rainbow Media’s AMC that charged the cable network had breached its carriage contract with the cable operator by contemporizing its movie programming from classic films to newer releases.

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> They should change the name of AMC, as the name no longer
> fits. The Three Stooges made for TV biopic, while
> entertaining, was hardly a classic...Just make it "American
> Movie Channel"
>
>
Actually, they have made that change. I believe it's been that way since they atarted modernizing its programming.
 
Re: ...and the winner..."Time Warner Cable"!!!

So you guys don't consider "Looks Who's Talking" and "Office Space" classics?

Whats wrong with you people! It takes us back into a time known as the 1990s. A simpler time when Hollywood wasn't afraid to try out new things. A time when Washington DC was a sleepy little town where any man could change the world. Legend has it, that back in the 90s, a simple southern man named Bubba actually became president!

Gas only cost 1.25. High schools weren't designed like prisons (they only felt like'em). And them gays weren't all over the TV.

*sarcasm off*
 
> For those of you who believe American Movie Classics has
> gone down the MTV road in full-throttle, then you aren't
> alone: Time Warner Cable thinks so too, and they've gone to
> court about it.

Actually this case has been going on in and out of courts for a few years now. Things really started to go downhill when AMC started loading itself up with commercials. Then the channel basically adopted a sort of Encore-type look, only with older product.

Cablevision/Rainbow Holdings and TW have never been the best of friends, and programming disputes among them, especially for things like MSG, have been going on for years and years. Of course, things at Cablevision have been odd in general ever since they launched the dinosaur of debt Voom - where the only thing compelling is the technology. Nobody was turning cartwheels over their limited programming lineup. Now, parts of Voom live on thanks to DISH, but that still saddled Cablevision with megadebt... again.

In the cable industry, when one of the players doesn't get along with the rest of the bully boys, and they refuse to be bought out or change, the industry finances a competing network and find a way to eventually drop the non-compliant network. TW already has Turner Classic Movies, but if Rainbow keeps it up, don't be surprised if TW or Liberty suddenly launches a new Classics network.
 
> However, I really think Fox Movie Channel could do a
> little better. Other than "Fox Hour of Stars" hosted by
> Robert Wagner, its movies have no host to tell us the
> inside story about each film or what its significance
> is in the evolution of modern film-making.

I think its a small sacrafice, especially with websites like IMDB, which has all the info you could want on the movies.
 
> > For those of you who believe American Movie Classics has
> > gone down the MTV road in full-throttle, then you aren't
> > alone: Time Warner Cable thinks so too, and they've gone
> to
> > court about it.
>
> Actually this case has been going on in and out of courts
> for a few years now. Things really started to go downhill
> when AMC started loading itself up with commercials. Then
> the channel basically adopted a sort of Encore-type look,
> only with older product.
>
> Cablevision/Rainbow Holdings and TW have never been the best
> of friends, and programming disputes among them, especially
> for things like MSG, have been going on for years and years.
> Of course, things at Cablevision have been odd in general
> ever since they launched the dinosaur of debt Voom - where
> the only thing compelling is the technology. Nobody was
> turning cartwheels over their limited programming lineup.
> Now, parts of Voom live on thanks to DISH, but that still
> saddled Cablevision with megadebt... again.
>
> In the cable industry, when one of the players doesn't get
> along with the rest of the bully boys, and they refuse to be
> bought out or change, the industry finances a competing
> network and find a way to eventually drop the non-compliant
> network. TW already has Turner Classic Movies, but if
> Rainbow keeps it up, don't be surprised if TW or Liberty
> suddenly launches a new Classics network.
>

I heard somewhere back a few years ago that a cable company (I think it was either AT&T or Comcast somewhere) dumped Much Music USA (Now Fuse) after Rainbow Media started replacing the Canadian feeds with low budget Americanised programming. The person that told me this called and asked why they dropped it and they said it had to do with "the programming" Not sure if this is 100% true or not but after reading this I believe it a bit more.
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