After years of negotiations, MSG has been removed from Time Warner Cable's lineup leaving sports fans in New York without Knicks, Rangers, Sabres, Devils or Islanders games.
The two companies have been fighting over how much MSG should be paid and each have had an ad campaign blasting the other side. MSG was asking for a 53 percent price increase for their sports programming. Both companies ... [ read the full article ]
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I used to have Time Warner where I live in the midwest. Good service, but prices just kept going up and up. I think they need to be careful, they still don't have NFL Network either. Less options for more money is never a good business model.
One of the big reasons your cable bills go up is because these channels keep asking for more and more money. It's good to see the cable companies fight back. Did you see that price increase? 53%? Time Warner is right to fight back.
TW seems to be the only provider standing by consumers rights.... for a big business, they aren't bad for protecting this stuff. Their prices for internet here in Wisconsin, are a bit high, but for 30Mbps (yes 30, that I actually get when downloading from a site that has that much bandwidth) their value is hard to beat. I just wish I could use XBOX Live and TNT with their service. but TW seems to be the only on there that isn't leaving most people to piracy.
TW is so full of shit...its coming out of their ears. They are not fighting for the consumers...if they paid MSG more then they would either have to charge the consumers more( which they don't have a problem doing...ALL THE TIME, ANYWAYS) or take a hit in their own wallets( THEY WILL NEVER LET THAT HAPPEN!!!) All this talk of TW accually standing up for its customers is a load of shit....customers have been shouting for years that they want the NFL network, but TW can't seem to make it work. They are just a bunch of cheap assholes who have a monopoly in most areas they cover. I for one would love to switch from them if there was an alterative.
