Posted on 12/30/2008 8:11:47 PM PST by Libloather
Viacom threatens to pull MTV off Time Warner Cable
Associated Press - December 30, 2008 10:33 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Viacom is threatening to pull MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon and 16 other channels from Time Warner Cable if a new carriage fee deal is not agreed upon by midnight Wednesday.
A Time Warner spokesman says Viacom is seeking "an exorbitant increase in their carriage fees."
Viacom has asked for fee increases of between 22 and 36% per channel, adding up to tens of millions of dollars per year, an amount that Time Warner says would cause an increase in customers' cable bills. But Viacom contends that the increases would cost less than 25 cents a month per subscriber.
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Only if they promise.
Call that bluff.
They can keep it, no music anyway.
When did MTV get rid of the music videos anyway?
Now they seem to have dumb reality shows, and not music videos.
$1 per channel ala cart cable....PLEASE!!!
They actually have a show now where parents of gay male teens interview men to date their teen. Beyond sick.
Couldn’t live without South Park, BUT it gets uploaded by someone on bitorrent AND it has a FREE channel which the creators shrugged at. \
The rest can die..MTV? Didn’t know it still existed.
Sometime after 1985.
That includes Colbert and Stewart I think. Good riddance
Maybe time warner would decrease your bill if they leave. Right. All viacom’s stuff is pretty mind-numbing anyway, I’d say good riddance.
MTV is so bad it’s almost unbelievable. Good luck with that LOL.
The only show I would miss is South Park, and that’s only half-heatedly since I can get all any SP episode off the web.
That's about it. the rest is cr#p.
Since they all have commercials, they should all be free.
I agree...nothing I'd miss off that list. It'd be nice if they would add a few movie channels...preferably classic movies.
That is sort of convoluted logic for Viacom.
Pay us more or we will pull the channels.
Yet, if they pull the channels, they will lose what they are getting now.
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