We Have A Deal With NESN: Looking At You, MSG Networks

We’ve got a little good holiday news for sports fans — our carriage of the New England Sports Network will continue uninterrupted.

From the official press release (linked text goes to the whole thing):

Time Warner Cable announced

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Categories: Content Delivery, Customer Care, In the Community, New York City, Northeast, Programming, Retransmission Consent

Relax – We’re Not Going to Pull the MSG Network

You may have heard that we’re having a business dispute with MSG networks, a fairly normal occurrence for this time of year. It’s becoming pretty standard in the cable world. Programming costs are skyrocketing, and networks try to make us…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Customer Care, Digital Cable, Future of the Industry, In the Community, New York City, Northeast, Programming, Retransmission Consent

We Filed A Request For Declaratory Judgment With Viacom This Afternoon

Last week, we pulled a number of channels from our iPad app. The Internet – not exactly a haven for measured discourse or patience for complex ideas – lit up with verbiage more commonly found…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Fact-Checking, New York City, Programming, Retransmission Consent, TV Everywhere, What's New

Time Warner Cable Reaches Agreement In Principle With Sinclair Broadcasting

Time Warner Cable has reached an agreement in principle with Sinclair Broadcasting for continued carriage of its 28 local stations in TWC markets, and expects to work toward a final agreement in the next seven days.

“We’re pleased to reach…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Fact-Checking, Retransmission Consent

If You Watch a Sinclair Affiliate Station, Your Network Programming Is Safe – We Have A Brief Extension, Too

As you may recall, we are in negotiations with Sinclair Broadcasting. We agreed to a 14-day extension on New Year’s Eve, and that extension has just about expired.

Now, we have agreed to a 24-hour…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Fact-Checking, Retransmission Consent, What's New

We Have An Extension With Sinclair Broadcasting

Here’s some cautiously optimistic good news, cable-friends: Sinclair Broadcasting has agreed to an extension of our current deal with them until January 14. That allows our customers to continue to receive all Sinclair Broadcasting stations uninterrupted while…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Customer Care, Fact-Checking, Retransmission Consent

Another Retrans Fight: Sinclair Viewers Won’t Lose Their Network Programming

It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without another retransmission consent fight (retrans for short.) Like I said earlier this year, it’s happening with increasing frequency and a byproduct of a broken system.

This year’s negotiations are with…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Customer Care, Fact-Checking, In the Community, Retransmission Consent, Roll Over or Get Tough

Notice of Proposal Rulemaking: The FCC’s Getting Into the Ring

In a normal world, it would be retransmission consent fight season again and we’d all be making abbreviated Christmas plans and no big plans for New Year’s. It happens every year at this time. Except this year,…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Fact-Checking, Future of the Industry, Retransmission Consent

More Fee Fights: It’s Musical Chairs and the Song is Getting Old

I’d like to bring your attention to recent article from Bloomberg:

Television Blackouts in U.S. Reach Decade-High Over Fee Fights

Here’s an excerpt:

TV blackouts in the U.S. have reached the highest level in a decade and may

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Categories: Content Delivery, Retransmission Consent, Roll Over or Get Tough

ESPN3: We Have a Deal, But It’s Going to Take Time to Implement

Since about thirty seconds after we signed the deal with Disney/ESPN last week, we’ve been getting the question:

When can we expect to see ESPN3?

The other question we’ve been getting has been:

Do I have to

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Categories: Content Delivery, Cool Stuff, Fact-Checking, Future of the Industry, Product Launches, Retransmission Consent