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Originally Posted by humdinger70

Time-Warner put up one of their ads saying they're going to drop CBS 8 San Diego on January 1. Great, more network nonsense.

Originally Posted by humdinger70

Time-Warner put up one of their ads saying they're going to drop CBS 8 San Diego on January 1. Great, more network nonsense.

Originally Posted by Stan54

Is Time-Warner going to drop CBS 8 San Diego or vice versa?

Originally Posted by hdtvfan2005


I am going to switch to DirecTV, so this will not affect me.

Originally Posted by Tom Wellman

Well good news for Time Warner Cable subscribers like myself in San Diego. CBS 8-KFMB has reached an agreement with the cable company. Terms weren't disclosed (another rate increase most likely coming), but programming won't be interrupted.

http://www.cbs8.com/story/16335928/k...on-time-warner

Originally Posted by HDOrlando

Keep us posted and let us know if it officially gets pulled.

When a new deal is reached, we might get FUSE HD back but I never watch that channel anyway. It would just get BHN Orlando back to 180 HD channels.

I do hope this new deal whenever it comes includes the national version of MSG for people living outside NYC.

Originally Posted by bgooch

By Jacob Schulman on January 4, 2012 03:07 pm

TWC promised HBO Go by the middle of January, and is sticking to its self-imposed deadline sort of.

Starting today, HBO Go and MAX Go are available in beta for TWC subscribers who also have HBO or Cinemax packages, as well as SignatureHome service for personalized customer support.

During beta, use is limited to PCs and Macs, with support coming for mobile devices (iOS and Android) once authentication systems are verified and kinks worked out.

The company promises it's "working very hard" to keep the beta as brief as possible, so hopefully all subscribers will be invited soon.

Your move, Cablevision.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/4/268...bo-max-go-beta

Originally Posted by rdgcss


Last night I signed up at my home and watched parts of several shows

Today I was able log on and watch using WindStream DSL in another city. WindStream is not listed as a supported provider.

Shhhhh, don't tell TWC

Originally Posted by Tom Wellman

I don't think it matters what ISP you're using. That's the whole point of the authentification process.

Originally Posted by rdgcss


TWC is getting the money for HBO and I'm was using some other ISP's bandwidth. I guess that's a winner for them

Originally Posted by xcrunner529

Does it work on the Roku/Xbox or are they blocking it like DirecTV and some others?

Originally Posted by Berk32

The Wait Is Over: All Time Warner Cable Customers Can Now Use HBO GO/MAX GO - http://www.twcableuntangled.com/2012...-hbo-gomax-go/

MSG and Time Warner Continue to Face Off

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

Since New Year’s Day, many local sports fans have lived with a disturbing reality: they cannot watch the Knicks, the Rangers, the Devils and the Islanders play on the MSG and MSG Plus networks.

The Rangers hold the best record in the N.H.L., but subscribers of Time Warner Cable cannot watch them on television.

And fans in the Buffalo market cannot tune in to the wildly popular Sabres on MSG.

The blackout is a result of a dispute that led to the disappearance of the MSG channels on Time Warner Cable, which has 1.7 million customers in the New York metropolitan region and upstate. After 11 days, there appears to be little hope for a quick resolution — even as the Rangers hold the best record in the N.H.L. and the Knicks are on a four-game winning streak that has put them at 6-4.

“I’m paying Time Warner $150 a month, and I’m thinking of cutting the cord,” said Amit Klein, a Knicks fan from Brooklyn who watched a recent game on a pirate Web site he learned of on Twitter. “It’s frustrating when you’re paying so much and there’s no legal way to watch the games.”

MSG and Time Warner Cable have kept their feud bubbling through newspaper ads, radio and TV commercials, and on Web sites (twcconversations.com and keepmsg.com), where MSG implores aggrieved fans to switch to DirecTV, RCN or Verizon FiOS.

MSG has also invited fans to viewing parties in various cities where they can watch the games.

The two sides agree on little in a nasty squabble that has focused on what Time Warner Cable will pay MSG to carry the two regional sports networks in a new contract. MSG says the cable operator, the nation’s second largest, has rejected all of its proposals for two years. Time Warner Cable says that MSG has twice reneged on a 6.5 percent rate increase and that its final demand was for a 53 percent increase.

“That’s just such a gross distortion of our conversations, and it’s not anywhere close to what we’ve talked about,” said Mike Bair, president of MSG Media. He added, “The sense of any movement to get the channels back on doesn’t exist.”

Mike Angus, a senior vice president for Time Warner Cable, said he was puzzled by the escalation of MSG’s pricing demands, which occurred after the N.B.A. lockout was resolved. “It was an overnight call: ‘Sorry, that offer isn’t on the table. Here’s the new number,’ ” he said. “We’ve asked them why, and they haven’t given us a real answer.”

Angus added, “MSG has its hand on the switch now.”

Local fans have seen sports channels blacked out before, with two companies controlled by the Dolan family — Cablevision and its former subsidiary, Madison Square Garden — in the middle.

For 10 days in 2004, MSG and what is now called MSG Plus were removed from Time Warner’s systems. The next year, the fight resumed and ended only after a 63-day blackout. Cablevision refused to show the YES Network for all of 2002, its first year of Yankees broadcasts. And years before Cablevision acquired Madison Square Garden and its assets, it dropped MSG for 10 months in 1988 and ’89.

Over the past decade, the character of MSG and its sister channel, MSG Plus, formerly FSNY, has changed. MSG lost Yankee rights after the 2001 season when the team created YES. The Mets left the MSG fold after 2005 when the club set up its SNY network. Regional sports networks are generally anchored by at least 100 baseball games, which usually produce higher ratings than basketball and hockey games.

Yet MSG costs nearly as much as YES and a little more than SNY. According to SNL Kagan, a research firm, MSG’s estimated monthly subscriber fee this year is $2.63. YES’s is $2.99 and SNY’s is $2.55. MSG Plus’s monthly subscriber fee stands at $2.28.

According to Lee H. Berke, the president of a media consulting company, Time Warner Cable would have had the contractual right to demand a reduction during its negotiations with MSG in 2005 when it was clear that the Mets’ departure would leave a sizable hole in programming in the spring and summer. “At that point, if I was Time Warner, I’d have said: ‘You’re offering 120 fewer events. I should cut your fee by X percent,’ ” said Berke, a former MSG executive. “But that opportunity came and went.”

That earlier deal was brokered by Eliot L. Spitzer, then New York State’s attorney general. In an interview on Tuesday, Spitzer said he could not recall the details of the talks between MSG and Time Warner nearly seven years ago or why MSG is paid as if it still carried Mets or Yankees games. “My objective was to bridge the chasm,” he said.

Angus, of Time Warner Cable, suggested that MSG may be seeking a Spitzer-like resolution in raising its current demands by more than eight times. Perhaps, he said, “the rationale for yanking their offer off the table and throwing up something extreme is that someone will step in and split the baby.”

But an MSG spokesman said that Time Warner’s account of its demands was “pure fiction.”

Whatever MSG’s demands are, it clearly values itself as an elite local sports network, even without Major League Baseball; it wants from Time Warner Cable fees similar to what its rivals are paying. The price of MSG also reflects higher rights fees for the Devils since 2005, and the purchase of Sabres rights.

Derek Baine, a senior analyst at SNL Kagan, said the subscriber fees that are now being charged by MSG are determined in part by what it pays Cablevision to be seen by its customers. “When you have related companies like Cablevision and MSG, you try to set the price high,” he said.

MSG compares its impasse in New York to one in Los Angeles, where Time Warner Cable has bought the rights to Lakers games over 20 years, starting in the fall, reportedly for billions of dollars. MSG’s Bair called it “confounding” that Time Warner Cable has made such a huge, market-altering investment in the Lakers, but that MSG was not even seeking “significant change in New York.”

A settlement might depend on finding a mutually agreeable definition of “significant.”

Originally Posted by BenJF3

It should be of NO CONCERN TO TWC how I operate my device if I am paying them for the service.