Time Warner sucks balls

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Well I was watching Noggin with my son the other day when a message started scrolling below the screen. It said that Time Warner was losing over 18 channels including MTV,Comedy Central,Noggin,Nickelodeon, and a bunch of others. This sucks since I pay large amounts of money and have a contract with these assholes. Now I'm out a bunch of channels and am stuck with a shitty cable provider. Good Times. Anyone else have this issue?
 
That's what I said. I called customer service when the message was played and they said this:

"We just found out this was happening thirty minutes ago. "

Apparently it may be due to the struggling economy. Time Warner actually lost the right to use the channels though. I guess they are losing money.
 
I saw that last night. If it's true, that's some bullshit. They better believe I'm going to cancel the service. Either that or they need to make it cheaper, and I mean much cheaper not a lousy 5 bucks off. I wonder if they have a right to charge early cancelation fee, since they change the service I agreed to get.
 
People still watch TV? Use the power of the intertubes!

Pretty much any popular show gets uploaded all over the place in high quality. Save yourself 50 bucks a month or whatever it is and just go with their fastest cable internet package.

somewhat unrelated: I'd love it if the CEOs at Time Warner, Charter Communcations, and Comcast Cable choked on their own vomit.
 
"Yesterday a dispute over fee hikes had threatened a damaging blackout at a minute past midnight Thursday that would have prevented TWC subscribers from watching their favorite shows such as 'SpongeBob SquarePants' and 'The Colbert Report.' The two sides reached an agreement on Thursday, the first of January 2009. The companies stated the terms of the deal were not disclosed. Details must still be finalized over the next few days."
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Seems you won't be out of your channels for long.
 
I was going to say, I can't imagine this working well for either side when thinking about it. Both would lose money from it.

Ah well, hopefully this gets you guys your channels back.
 
this problem is more than you realize...

viacom wants to sell channel access packages to the cable provides with guarenteed revenues not only for the access to all the channels ( which you may or may not want ) rather than the channels you want as an individual.

they do need to realize that directTV is out there and offering cheap tv with more options than cable, and that their options are all out-dated for whats comming and even happening now.

people are already stopping watching programs on tv, and downloading them or watching them on the web pages rather than on their tv. why? its more convienent to be able to watch them when you want rather than when the network says it should be on.


i currently get about 100-120 channels with my digital cable package. how many of those channels do i use? less than 30. how many of those do i spend in a month watching more than 5 of? about 10-15. this means that 90% of the channels i pay for, i dont even use.

for tv, they are going to have to move away from the whole "channel package" deal, and move twords the customer picking the channels they want.


this whole problem was time warner wanting to hold onto the old way rather than trying to figure out a new way to hold onto what they have, and methods/means of moving onto what it will end up being.
 
TheWesDude said:
people are already stopping watching programs on tv, and downloading them or watching them on the web pages rather than on their tv. why? its more convienent to be able to watch them when you want rather than when the network says it should be on.
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This combined with what DexterMorgan said is why I believe the television networks are going to start facing the same challenge with the Internet that the RIAA faces.

But convenience is huge and so, TiVo is really the only thing with tvs that remedies that challenge outside of the Internet.
 
Snackpack said:
People still watch TV? Use the power of the intertubes!
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QFT. If anything you could spend the extra money to upgrade your internet plan and download to your heart's content.

DexterMorgan said:
I haven't had TV since December last year and I don't miss it one iota! Bloody waste of time.
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Agreed. I haven't watched TV in years, it gives me an unpleasant reminder of the stupidity of the mainstream.
 
Sigh. Television is just full of communistic left-wing politicians (or in layman's terms, "Democrats").

I won't start a rage war, but television is too corrupt nowadays. All the censorship and political correctness. It makes the inner 90s kid in me weep to see what Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have become...

Nickelodeon is particularly painful now. Damnit! Nobody watches your "TeenNick" junk. We watch Comedy Central and Fox if we want sitcoms...

Oddly enough I still have the channels. Oh well. I wouldn't miss them. It's probably some diabolical plot by Time Warner Cable to get people to buy DirecTV or whatever it is.
 
Bunny Ears FTW.

I get my CBC, CTV and Global, which carries 99% of the shows I actually watch (which is about 2).

Cable is a big rip off, IMO.
 
Strike for Snackpack for encouraging warezing, if you want to watch something that isn't actually free, pay for it.

StoneFrog said:
Sigh. Television is just full of communistic left-wing politicians (or in layman's terms, "Democrats").
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Says the Republican, Democrats have the exact opposite complaint.
 
StoneFrog said:
the censorship and political correctness. It makes the inner 90s kid in me weep to see what Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network have become...
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Eh? I don't recall seeing much censorship or political correctness on Adult Swim, myself. And the Fairly Godparents (or whatever it's called) is a pretty decent kids' cartoon, I even enjoy watching it sometimes. Yeah a lot of the cartoons are crap... but I don't recall a time (and I grew up in the 90's also) when most cartoons (or shows in general) weren't crap. You always have to wade through the crap to find the good stuff.
 
StoneFrog said:
Sigh. Television is just full of communistic left-wing politicians (or in layman's terms, "Democrats").
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Surely if T.V was governed by bleeding heart left wing freedom loving beatniks it would have less censorship and political corectness.
Or am I getting confused by the American use of the word left-wing again.

Though I doubt that's really the problem anyway. Censorship and political correctness have always been around and it's a testement to the good programs on how they get around them.

For example Animaniacs was famed for managing to slip past the censors and had some very adult jokes for a kids cartoon.

There are still good programs about, albeit not as much as there was in the 90s but the lack of them is more to do with companies playing safe and conservative rather than censorship.

It's Fairly Oddparents by the way Kyuu which is a damn good cartoon but a bugger to find :P
Still watch it when it's on though but British television companies prefer to show live action stuff rather than cartoons now.
 
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