Last Minute Deal Keeps Viacom Content on Time Warner Cable

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Time Warner Cable has reached a last minute deal with Viacom Inc. on carriage fees, avoiding a blackout of 19 cable channels to around 15 million customers.

Channels that would have disappeared from the United State’s second largest cable provider included Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike, TV Land, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, Noggin, The N, Nick Jr., TEENick, MTV, VH1, MTV2, CMT and Palladia.

The channels were expected to be pulled at midnight January 1. Viacom has been asking viewers to lobby Time Warner to come to a deal.

Details of the agreement are said to still be finalized, but reports suggest that Time Warner has agreed to the high rates demanded by Viacom.

un happy with u $ hungry B's

finally u idiots

Abigail

I find it deplorable that Time Warner asked its customers to do its negotiating work. And not so wise, either: with a product like entertainment programming, related as it is to fantasy and escape, your customers don't want to worry about your business model.

I have seen a flood of negative comments, like the one posted here by un happy with u $ hungry B's, related to this standoff throughout the blogosphere — most entertainingly at http://www.dlisted.com/node/29974

I hope the losers in this agreement aren't going to be the customers paying higher fees for a service model that is falling out of date as TV moves online.

Last Minute Deal Keeps Viacom Content on Time Warner Cable

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