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CBS vs TWC

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sathman01

I have seen the commercials and read the stories online but I am wondering if CBS will pull their programming or TWC will block CBS?

I cut the cord years ago, so I am just sitting back and watching the fight.
 
Yawn. TWC pulls it for three days, and suddenly the two parties come to terms including a 10% retransmission fee increase.

Next?
 
sathman01 said:
I cut the cord years ago, so I am just sitting back and watching the fight.
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...and Les Moonves is everyday cursing you and your antenna-erecting ilk as the traitors he probably thinks you are. Heh Heh.

Good on you. One less human feeding the pig. As it is, I understand the putdown spots CBS is running don't even mention that one can receive The Eye (and the other OTAs) the good old fashioned way with no running cost.

Proof once again, "The Antenna Is Your Friend."
 
WTIC-TV (FOX) channel 61 of Hartford never mentioned over-the-air either when it involved a dispute with a local cable provider (not Comcast).

When I saw the subject line, I thought CBS' beef was with The Weather Channel! ;D
 
Joe_Capitano said:
sathman01 said:
I cut the cord years ago, so I am just sitting back and watching the fight.
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...and Les Moonves is everyday cursing you and your antenna-erecting ilk as the traitors he probably thinks you are. Heh Heh.

Good on you. One less human feeding the pig. As it is, I understand the putdown spots CBS is running don't even mention that one can receive The Eye (and the other OTAs) the good old fashioned way with no running cost.

Proof once again, "The Antenna Is Your Friend."
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I haven't seen anything other than Dish possibly dropping the CBS station.

Still, the antenna is not your friend. Ever since June 12, 2009, although the CBS station was the best at first, the antenna often gives me stripes, squares, and interruptions in the sound. That doesn't sound like something afriend would do.
 
Joe_Capitano said:
sathman01 said:
I cut the cord years ago, so I am just sitting back and watching the fight.
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...and Les Moonves is everyday cursing you and your antenna-erecting ilk as the traitors he probably thinks you are. Heh Heh.

Good on you. One less human feeding the pig. As it is, I understand the putdown spots CBS is running don't even mention that one can receive The Eye (and the other OTAs) the good old fashioned way with no running cost.

Proof once again, "The Antenna Is Your Friend."
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Why should the CBS spots mention you can receive their signal over the air? They're specific to people who already have TWC and watch it via cable. Chances are if you are a Time Warner customer, its because you watch programming that isn't available over the air too, not just CBS. Yet you still watch CBS obviously if you're seeing the spot. Who wants to deal with adding an antenna when they already pay for cable?

Cord cutting is fine and dandy, but most people still seem to enjoy getting all of their television from one source, its easy and convenient. These people should know that their cable company is in negotations that may interrupt their service.
 
Yeah, but CBS should let you know you can use an antenna if talks break down and CBS gets pulled off the Time Warner system. If they are REALLY concerned you're going to miss their programming, they should give you an alternative to continue watching, even if you're getting your other channels from cable.

Of course, you might say their real concern is getting that extra money from Time Warner. If you miss The Dome or Y&R or Letterman for a few days, they'll weather that. But they really want you to call Time Warner and have T-W count how many irate phone calls they're getting, so they'll be willing to pay more for CBS.

And wasn't there also something about T-W removing Showtime, a CBS service? After all, T-W owns HBO but they have to pay CBS for Showtime/Movie Channel. I'm sure they wish all their Showtime subcribers switched to HBO/Cinemax.
 
Gregg said:
And wasn't there also something about T-W removing Showtime, a CBS service? After all, T-W owns HBO but they have to pay CBS for Showtime/Movie Channel. I'm sure they wish all their Showtime subcribers switched to HBO/Cinemax.
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"Time Warner Cable" has been a separate company from Time Warner for several years now. It's Time Warner, not Time Warner Cable, that owns HBO and Cinemax.
 
Joe_Capitano said:
As it is, I understand the putdown spots CBS is running don't even mention that one can receive The Eye (and the other OTAs) the good old fashioned way with no running cost.

Proof once again, "The Antenna Is Your Friend."
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They never do. I even posted the dirty little secret no one ever talks about (network television by and large can be received over the air for free with an antenna) on TWC's Facebook comments about the CBS/TWC squabble. As expected, within a matter of minutes my post vanished into thin air.

I cord cut close to 2 decades ago so these carriage bickerings are nothing more than amusement to me since I don't give a rip either way.
 
Re: CBS vs. Time-Warner Cable

Expect this kind of dispute to happen with increased frequency in the future.

Cable operators will begin to "draw a line in the sand" concerning rate hikes sought by programmers, and disputes like the one between CBS and Time-Warner Cable will be the norm, not the exception.

I think we may soon see a scenario where every year, at least one channel on every single local cable system in the country is in danger of getting dropped (of course, it won't be every system threatening to dump the same channel but different operators threatening to drop different networks) because of programmer/operator disputes, mainly over how much to ,pay for those channels.

The truth is, soaring programming costs are the reason why cable and satellite rates have spiked in recent years.
 
Re: CBS vs Time-Warner Cable: Round 27,382

LIRadioIsBad commented: said:
Now they set a new deadline for Friday (August 2nd) at 5PM Eastern. I think this could be the funniest retransmission dispute I've ever seen
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With high-profile sports programming on CBS in the next few weeks (the PGA Golf Championship, the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, which I believe is the last one CBS will carry and takes place in New York; and the start of the NFL season), and telecasts of three of the four Jets' pre-season (locally produced) and twelve of their sixteen regular-season games (via the network) on WCBS-2, I'm beginning to think the deadline may keep getting pushed back and back, giving Time-Warner subscribers the chance to watch these events.

Not to mention the start of the Fall TV season in mid-September.
 
>>>"Time Warner Cable" has been a separate company from Time Warner for several years now. It's Time Warner, not Time Warner Cable, that owns HBO and Cinemax. <<<

Sure, but they still have some common ownership. It's more for Wall Street reasons that the two entities are separate, just like McDonald's and Chipotle are separate, even with different stocks and ticker symbols. But the two companies are not totally divorced from each other.
 
WCBS in NYC is running these spots constantly, and there are scrolls across the screen during every primetime show. Very annoying. And to make it even more dramatic, the scrolls are in bright red, similar to the severe weather warnings.
 
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