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Brian

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Via the AP News Wire...

'Colbert,' 'SpongeBob' may go dark on Time Warner

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "SpongeBob SquarePants" may be getting squeezed off of Time Warner Cable.

Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable is not agreed upon by then.

The impasse would mean "SpongeBob" and other popular shows like Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" will be cut off, said spokesman Alex Dudley, a vice president at Time Warner Cable. The nation's second-largest cable operator primarily serves customers in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas.
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It also affects Bright House cable.

I just saw a crawl on TV Land asking Time Warner subscribers to call 1-800-762-3786 and Bright House subscribers to call 1-866-309-3279 to demand that they keep these channels.
 
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brian, I've edited your text and I'm sending this over to General Media & TV. I'd suggest that you edit in a link to the article you quoted.
 
brian said:
'Colbert,' 'SpongeBob' may go dark on Time Warner

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "SpongeBob SquarePants" may be getting squeezed off of Time Warner Cable.

Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable is not agreed upon by then.

The impasse would mean "SpongeBob" and other popular shows like Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" will be cut off, said spokesman Alex Dudley, a vice president at Time Warner Cable. The nation's second-largest cable operator primarily serves customers in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas.
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I just saw a crawl on TV Land asking Time Warner subscribers to call 1-800-762-3786 and Bright House subscribers to call 1-866-309-3279 to demand that they keep these channels.
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I saw that crawl as well, this was on Spike as I watched an ep of Voyager. Hope it isn't true.
 
Thanks, SPOCKED. I added the link reference. :)


By the way, the affected channels are:
  • Comedy Central
  • CMT: Pure Country
  • Logo
  • Palladia
  • MTV
  • MTV 2
  • MTV Hits
  • MTV Jams
  • MTV Tr3s
  • Nickelodeon
  • Noggin
  • Nick 2
  • Nicktoons
  • Spike
  • The N
  • TV Land
  • VH1
  • VH1 Classic
  • VH1 Soul
 
Yeah I saw this last night while I was watching DS9 on Spike. Well if I lose Spike at least I would have lost it with a great episode getting one final shot.
 
I'd really only miss comedy central and Spike, (I'm pretty sure the I took the rest of those out of my lineup) however comcast bought out time warner in my area a few years ago, so I'm assuming I won't be affected.
 
brian said:
Via the AP News Wire...

'Colbert,' 'SpongeBob' may go dark on Time Warner

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "SpongeBob SquarePants" may be getting squeezed off of Time Warner Cable.

Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable is not agreed upon by then.

The impasse would mean "SpongeBob" and other popular shows like Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" and Stephen Colbert's "The Colbert Report" will be cut off, said spokesman Alex Dudley, a vice president at Time Warner Cable. The nation's second-largest cable operator primarily serves customers in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas.
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It also affects Bright House cable.
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Another brilliant argument for getting a satellite! :)


DES
 
The only MTV Networks channels I ever watch are Nickelodeon, TV Land, SpikeTV, and Comedy Central, but not very often. Nick doesn't have as many good cartoons as it used to, and the only thing on any of those channels I watch regularly anymore is The Daily Show, which is available online. So this is not a great loss for me. (I have kind of been getting into the habit of watching CSI reruns on Spike lately, but I can live without them.)

Still, it's an unfortunate situation and I hope it can be worked out.
 
I can live without pretty much everything in that package, but the nanosecond TWC allows this to go through (assuming they do), I'm going to be up to my neck in their ass getting my monthly bill reduced.

In the meantime, we're exploring other options, as other cable companies have started to make it into the area where I live.
 
This happened here in The UK when Murdock's BSkyB removed their channels from Virgin's cable service because they could not agree terms. I took a very long time before there was an agreement leading to the channels' return.
 
Well, it's after midnight in the Central Time Zone (Happy New Year!), and I still have the channels in question.
 
DeeEss57 said:
Another brilliant argument for getting a satellite! :)


DES
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BUT:

If Viacom gets away with higher payments from Time Warner, they will use the opportunity to make the price increase demands to other cable and satellite providers (and increase your monthly bill). If the cable and satellite companies present a united front against channel conglomerate price increases it just might result in the channel operators demanding a bigger slice of their revenue pie from the advertisers.
 
So far so good on Bright House. They must have either reached an agreement or got an extension.
 
They definitely made some sort of deal. I can still watch crappy reruns of shows on SpikeTV all I want.
 
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