Retransmission Consent All Over Again – Happy New Year

It’s New Year’s Eve in the TV business, and with each New Year’s Eve comes a series of unfortunate negotiations related to retransmission consent disagreements. It’s like global warming: something we all wish would go away, but probably isn’t…

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

We Have Reached an Agreement With Hearst Television

Our dispute with Hearst Television is over – and just like a head cold, it was unpleasant – and fortunately, it ended quickly.

Here’s our official statement from last night – as of the time of this posting,…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Future of the Industry, In the Community, Programming, Retransmission Consent

TV Blackouts: Switching Doesn’t Help

So, if you haven’t noticed – we are in a contract dispute with Hearst and millions of our customers are without Hearst stations. At the same time, DirecTV and Viacom are at it with each other and DirecTV customers…

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Categories: Content Delivery, Customer Care, Future of the Industry, In the Community, Programming, Retransmission Consent

Hearst Blackouts: Sick All Over Again

As soon as I get over a cold, I think it’s the last one I’ll ever have. So when the inevitable headache, sneezing and crippling sinus pain crops up again, there’s this layer of existential disappointment on top of…

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

We Have an Agreement With MSG

Good news, New York sports fans. According to a very brief press release we put out this evening:

Time Warner Cable has reached a verbal agreement for carriage of MSG, MSG+ and Fuse, effective immediately. MSG will return

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Categories: Content Delivery, Customer Care, Fact-Checking, In the Community, New York City, Programming, Retransmission Consent, Sports

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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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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