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Time Warner Inc. said today that it had a 2008 operating loss, compared with a 2007 gain of $8.9 billion, on $25 billion worth of fourth-quarter impairment charges. The charges were primarily related to franchise rights of Time Warner Cable, which TW spun off two years ago and whose shares it plans to...
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As the deadline loomed and Viacom prepared to remove its cable channels from Time Warner Cable over a license-fee dispute, Viacom was also getting ready to take the unusual step of preventing Time Warner Cable broadband subscribers from accessing many of its Web sites. On MTV.com, a warning that appeared...
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CBS and Time Warner Cable said they reached an agreement that extends the cable operator's retransmission of signals from CBS’s television stations and its carriage of Showtime Networks’ programming through 2013. CBS and Showtime programming will also be part of Time Warner Cable’s Start Over and...
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Time Warner Cable’s decision to pay Viacom more to carry networks including MTV and Nickelodeon demonstrates that when programmers and cable operators fight over money, it’s the pipeline that feels the pinch first and faces more downside risk. Viacom last week threatened to pull its 19 channels off Time...
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Paying more to Viacom to carry its 19 cable networks was a good move for Time Warner Cable as well as a win for Viacom, an analyst said Friday. Time Warner Cable and Viacom reached a last minute deal Jan. 1 that keeps Viacom’s networks on the operator’s cable systems by reportedly agreeing to pay a higher...
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Viacom and Time Warner Cable have reached an agreement in principle that ends the threat of Viacom channels, including MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, being pulled from the cable operator's systems, a Viacom spokeswoman said. The agreement was reached just after midnight Eastern Time, when Time...
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The American Cable Association demanded that Viacom stop the crawl running during its programming that tells cable subscribers that they might lose networks such as Comedy Central, MTV and Nickelodeon at midnight. The crawl was being televised to all cable subscribers, but Viacom is in a dispute only...
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The Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission is again stepping in to speed the resolution of a complaint that cable systems aren’t dealing fairly with an independent cable network, this time to the benefit of the NFL Network. The Media Bureau today withdrew from an administrative judge the...
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Time Warner Cable says Viacom, which is threatening to pull signals for 19 cable networks from the operator’s system, is seeking $39 million more annually in the companies’ fee dispute . Viacom plans to remove its channels—including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and MTV—from Time Warner Cable at midnight...
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Viacom is threatening to pull its networks, including Nickelodeon and MTV, off of Time Warner Cable tomorrow if the companies don't reach an agreement on fees for the channels. Viacom is readying advertisements featuring characters from its channels, including SpongeBob SquarePants from Nickelodeon...
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Time Warner Cable and Granite Broadcasting have reached a retransmission agreement to continue providing broadcast programming in several New York state markets. The deal includes the broadcast of ABC programming in Buffalo and CBS programming in Syracuse and Binghamton. Additionally, Time Warner Cable...
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iN Demand Networks is bringing back “The Yule Log” on Dec. 8 due to popular demand. The high-definition “Yule Log,” featuring a crackling fireplace and holiday music, is available free to Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks Video-on-Demand customers throughout the...
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To blunt the threat of consumer defections to broadband-only programming, Time Warner Cable plans to work with programmers next year to hasten development of a Web replica of its cable programming options. Under this proposed offering, Time Warner Cable customers could access online all the same programming...
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Time Warner reported basically flat financial results for the third quarter, and said it was adjusting its full-year business outlook downward in the face of a "challenging economic environment." Revenue rose at the company’s cable networks. Net income totaled $1.07 billion, or 30 cents a share...
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The Federal Communications Commission’s media bureau is giving the NFL Network, WealthTV and a Baltimore/Washington sports network a major victory in their battle for carriage on cable systems, saying there is sufficient evidence the channels are being discriminated against to justify administrative...