Greed vs. Greed
Allow us to chime in on the dispute that erupted as expected this week between the new, improved Time Warner Cable system and its dropping the NFL Network from subscribers as it aims to renegotiate its subscribers fees dea, which is causing the NFL to fight back with FCC intervention:
We refuse to get sucked into the latest cable-vs.-network arm wrestling match that’s always going to make the customer cough up more per month than they should. Escallating rights fees for any sports channel cause these seemingly annual battles, and when the two multi-millionair businesses start trying to air out their sides in the media, it just serves to frustrate the wallet-punched consumer, and we're not going to let them use us as their mouthpieces. Time Warner has a Website set up to do just that: www.nflgetreal.com. The NFL Network has its own link for those who want to call their cable systems at www.nfl.viewerlink.tv/
If you have Time Warner and the NFL Network was dropped, call both parties and complain to them. Loudly. Or better yet, punt it and buy a DirecTV or Dish Network system.
So as we said, we could see this coming, there was plenty of warning, we’re aware of this situation, we’ll keep you up as best we can on when its settled.