No More MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon For Time Warner Customers?

GMNRecordsCT3 · 12-31-2008, 03:14 PM

Media giant Viacom Inc. said its MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday (tomorrow) if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable Inc. is not agreed upon by then.

The impasse would mean “SpongeBob” and other popular shows like Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and Stephen Colbert’s “The Colbert Report” will be cut off on the nation’s second-largest cable operator. Time Warner Cable primarily serves people in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas.

Viacom has asked for fee increases of between 22 percent and 36 percent per channel, or a total of $39 million more, an amount that could increase customers’ cable bills, said Time Warner Cable spokesman Alex Dudley.

“The issue is that they have asked for an exorbitant increase in their carriage fees and their network ratings are sagging,” Dudley said. “Basically we’re trying to hold the line for our customer.”

Viacom spokeswoman Kelly McAndrew disputed the figure, saying Viacom requested an increase in the very low double-digit percentage range.

Viacom said the increases would cost an extra 23 cents a month per subscriber. It said that Americans spend a fifth of their TV time watching Viacom shows but its fees make up less than 2.5 percent of the Time Warner cable bill.

“We make this request because Time Warner Cable has so greatly undervalued our channels for so long,” Viacom said.

“Ultimately, however, if Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and the rest of our programming is discontinued — over less than a penny per day — we believe viewers will see this behavior by their cable company as outrageous,” Viacom said.

Time Warner Cable’s Dudley said Viacom rejected his company’s proposal to extend the contract while the sides continue to negotiate.

Instead, Viacom appealed directly to Time Warner Cable’s customers, with TV ads in major markets. In Wednesday’s New York Times, the company ran a full-page, color advertisement with Nickelodeon’s animated bilingual heroine “Dora the Explorer” crying and clinging to her monkey pal, Boots.

“Why is Dora crying?” the ad asks. “Time Warner Cable is taking Dora off the air tonight!” The ad urges viewers to call Time Warner Cable and demand that their favorite shows remain on the air.

If the shows go dark after midnight, Time Warner Cable will send people to the Internet to catch episodes. Dudley said the cable operator also will make available a video teaching people how to hook their computers up to the TV to watch online shows — a tactic it used during a contract dispute with broadcaster LIN TV in October.

Part of the disagreement is that most of Viacom’s popular shows are rerun on Web sites where Viacom collects advertising revenue that it does not share with Time Warner, Dudley said. “We don’t think that’s fair,” he said.

The channels that would be affected are: Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Soul.

G-Unit/DaTest · 12-31-2008, 05:12 PM

I saw the black banners plastered at the bottom of all of those channels

I guess there will be no more TV to watch when I get home.

Heffernan · 12-31-2008, 05:16 PM

how will i know if im effected??

(i have optimum ans live in NY)

J.a.M · 12-31-2008, 05:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dj Wiggles

how will i know if im effected??

(i have optimum ans live in NY)

your not affected

im

da fuck son i cant live witout my 70's show

Spoken Word · 12-31-2008, 05:28 PM

I'm affected, which kinda pisses me off cause now I can't ridicule the faggish fucks on that "Parental Control" show on MTV

The Real K.I.N.G. · 12-31-2008, 05:37 PM

So if that shit showed up on your tv that means your affected by that shit?

THE NIGGA-JR · 12-31-2008, 06:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Real K.I.N.G.

So if that shit showed up on your tv that means your affected by that shit?

no not if it shows up but if u have time warner then u will because i have dish network and i saw it lastnight

brollya · 12-31-2008, 06:04 PM

u good if u got satellite
so the people who got satellite, dont worry

platinum_rapper2007 · 12-31-2008, 08:20 PM

[QUOTE= Time Warner Cable primarily serves people in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas.
[/QUOTE]

you forgot wisconsin by the way, wis sucks anyway

good thing i have dish network

BornIntoThis · 12-31-2008, 08:35 PM

no more south park?...... AW HELL NO!

Da Real Deal · 12-31-2008, 08:42 PM

I got Dish so ehhh...don't give a fuck about it.

Yung_Rich · 12-31-2008, 08:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Da Real Deal

I got Dish so ehhh...don't give a fuck about it.

comcast>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The Real K.I.N.G. · 12-31-2008, 09:13 PM

That what I got comcast

Yung_Rich · 12-31-2008, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Real K.I.N.G.

That what I got comcast

well dont worry we run shit

Maully Da Don · 12-31-2008, 10:20 PM

FUCK!...

no more george lopez and fresh prince...

creepz · 12-31-2008, 10:28 PM

so if u got comcast u dnt gotta worry

Yung_Rich · 12-31-2008, 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lilcreepz

so if u got comcast u dnt gotta worry

nigga we run diiiiissssss who nicccaaa we nigggaa !!!

NikoBellic · 12-31-2008, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by platinum_rapper2007

you forgot wisconsin by the way, wis sucks anyway

good thing i have dish network

cuz u live in da burbs, come to milwaukee its crackin 9th and keefe

dunson23 · 12-31-2008, 11:42 PM

nice im in Florida,so im good

platinum_rapper2007 · 01-01-2009, 03:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NikoBellic

cuz u live in da burbs, come to milwaukee its crackin 9th and keefe

used to, got outta keefe though

C. Sense AKA L.J. · 01-01-2009, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by G-Unit/DaTest

I saw the black banners plastered at the bottom of all of those channels

I guess there will be no more TV to watch when I get home.

i started goin nuts...!

the channels havent blacked out so im hopin they settled this

YoungKR07 · 01-01-2009, 03:53 PM

I gots charter so i aint worried but i saw the black banners too my cousins in ohio got time warner sucks for them

The Real K.I.N.G. · 01-01-2009, 04:02 PM

They resolved this yesterday they aint gone black out

GMNRecordsCT3 · 01-01-2009, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lilcreepz

so if u got comcast u dnt gotta worry

ya its only if you have Time Warner...

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LawrenceSouljah · 01-02-2009, 12:54 AM

Comcast is grinnin right now

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