Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Time Warner Temporarily Removes CBS in Major Cities



This little hissy fit just got serious. From the NY Times...

CBS stations were temporarily removed from cable systems in millions of homes in major cities — including New York and Los Angeles — about midnight on Monday, after protracted negotiations between CBS and Time Warner Cable over fees collapsed. But after an exchange of recrimination-filled statements, and less than a half-hour of cable interruption, the cable company announced that it had halted the blackout of the stations at CBS’s request.

Read the whole article. It's all negotiating maneuvers, with the consumers once again, just an afterthought.