copperhead Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BH2FX20091218?type=entertainmentNews $1 per subscriber. Is it really that big of a deal when I'm already being charged damn near $100 a month for cable and internet? I need to find out if Insight is available out here, nothing else seems to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 Shouldnt the networks be making money from the advertisers, who give them money depending on how many viewers they have? And are they going to lose viewers if time warner doesnt pay, and then lose advertiser money? I don't blame Time Warner, I blame fox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperhead Posted December 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 They have been losing advertising money thanks to the economy, they have to recoup somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperhead Posted December 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 My problem is that any time a station looks for a rate increase, Time Warner goes on an advertising campaign aimed at their customers talking about how such and such channel doesn't want you to see them anymore, when it's just them refusing to negotiate. They don't need to drag their customers into this shit, just work out the details and be done with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 Well, why does the station NEED more money? Is American Idol going to be in 3D? Because thats what everyone needs right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cinergi Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 Time to find your sales rep and send him a brown bag! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro1647545510 Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 TWC is shady. They have been raising cable rates for years and now they wanna use this whole get tough or roll over campaign. It took me three phone calls to get my bill lowered from 133 bucks for digi cable with a HD DVR and 7 Mbps internet to 99 bucks. My whole thing was I don't wanna pay an extra 33 bucks a month for the same package that you offer new customers. So they finally relented and gave me the 99 package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 I'm not one to defend TW by any means, but this is shitty on Fox's part. Just like it is shitty the NFL network charges MORE to actually see football games on their channels. ALL of these different broadcasters are trying to get every freaking penny than can out of cable/dish providers, and consumers some how expect that it won't come back to them? You say only $1/month. Let's say they have 1 million video subscribers (I'm sure TW has way more than that nation wide). That's $12,000,000 a year MORE to carry one freaking channel. Insanity. Cable/Dish aren't making the margins they once did. If it wasn't for VOIP/HSD services, most cable companies would be out of business by now. Dish has it a bit easier as their overhead is a lower, but don't have the other technologies to fall back on either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xlr8tn Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 I HATE Time Warner but this looks like Fox to me from the way that reads. Other than watching football TWC could drop fox altogether over this and it wouldn't bother me. Somebody is gonna get the subscriber one way or the other though. What's your options? Pay per view football would be a cool option except you know they'd stick it to you on the prices. I'd like to have the option to see whatever game I wanted to see and would be willing to pay to do that but not some absurd amount that they would most likely charge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BH2FX20091218?type=entertainmentNews $1 per subscriber. Is it really that big of a deal when I'm already being charged damn near $100 a month for cable and internet? I need to find out if Insight is available out here, nothing else seems to be. ummm this is not timewarner doing this. This is fox being super shady. Big 10 network did the exact same thing ti time warner. only there request was ever worse. Its a fucking shame honestly . This is why I don't even have cable any more. The only show my wife watched was bones and she prefers to watch it on her pc from http://www.fox.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorne Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 I'm not one to defend TW by any means, but this is shitty on Fox's part. Just like it is shitty the NFL network charges MORE to actually see football games on their channels. ALL of these different broadcasters are trying to get every freaking penny than can out of cable/dish providers, and consumers some how expect that it won't come back to them? You say only $1/month. Let's say they have 1 million video subscribers (I'm sure TW has way more than that nation wide). That's $12,000,000 a year MORE to carry one freaking channel. Insanity. Cable/Dish aren't making the margins they once did. If it wasn't for VOIP/HSD services, most cable companies would be out of business by now. Dish has it a bit easier as their overhead is a lower, but don't have the other technologies to fall back on either. Yup. If FIOS would roll out faster they would find out that people are getting closer to just using the internet as there device. TV's are coming with flash built in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V8 Beast Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 Left field but I've hated Fox since they were that channel growing up that was always fuzzy. No matter how hard I tried to adjust the bunny ears it would never come in clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragknee66 Posted December 19, 2009 Report Share Posted December 19, 2009 aanndd threads like this make me feel better about cancelling my cable tv months ago. Too much greed in the world, too much revolves around the all mighty $ and whos going to get the most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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