rec.autos.simulators

Because Disney which owns ABC is fighting with Time Warner Cable, I no longer
get ABC.  Which means no stanley cup playoffs and no auto racing!!!

AAHHHHHHHH
AAAAAHHHHHHH

GOD DAMN DISNEY TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disney Has Pulled its ABC Signal Off  
Eleven Key Time Warner Cable Systems

New York, New York - At 12:01am on May 1, The Walt
Disney Company, which owns ABC, pulled its ABC
broadcast signal from Time Warner cable systems in 11
markets around the country, affecting approximately 3.5
million households.  

Disney is trying to inappropriately use its ownership of ABC
to extract excessive and unreasonable terms for its cable
channels - terms that would add hundreds of millions of
dollars in costs for Time Warner Cable and its customers.  

In the past week, Time Warner has made two reasonable
proposals to Disney that would have kept ABC on Time
Warner cable systems through the end of the year.
Unfortunately, Disney has decided to single out Time Warner
customers by rejecting both proposals, while recently agreeing
to similar long-term extensions with other cable companies.  

"Disney's repeated threats, deadlines and short-term
extensions have caused our customers great frustration and
anxiety," said Barry Rosenblum, President, Time Warner
Cable of New York City. "We regret any temporary
inconvenience, but we're not going to let Disney force our
customers to 'walk the plank' one more time. Our primary goal
is to put our customers first."  

Federal law says no cable company can carry a broadcast TV
signal without the broadcaster's permission. Disney's rejection
of our offers unfortunately means we do not have permission
to retransmit their ABC signal. "Disney withheld consent;
therefore, Disney is responsible for our customers losing
ABC," said Rosenblum.  

Time Warner has successfully reached agreements with every
other broadcast company in the country. In January, Time
Warner reached a long-term agreement with Disney, but
Disney reneged at the last minute. Since then, Time Warner
has worked hard to convince Disney to act reasonably and
place customers' interests first. Disney has refused all offers
and continues to make excessive demands.  

"Our goal is to put customers first," said Rosenblum. "Our
most recent offers would have done that. We continue to
believe that the best way to resolve the situation is to extend
our existing agreement through the end of the year while we
continue to negotiate a long-term agreement."  

I'm sure it's not just Disney at fault. Since the merger announcement of
AOL/TW my rates have gone up, my television's tvGuide+ has been
rendered useless, animal planet has been cut, infomercials have
increaed. Time Warner SUCKS! I don't know who the culprit is in this
particular issue but Time Warner stinks.

Aragorn

--
He that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest
-JRRT-

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Time Warner gave me Speedvision!!!!
I love TW  !!

"Getting hit by a meteorite is an accident...
  everything else is driver-error."

But Time Warner only condescended to add Speedvision when the rates for
the satellite offerings came down enough for it to become quite
reasonable for people to switch.  Only then did they "give" you
Speedvision.

Neither side in this squabble is innocent.  Time Warner is withholding
their distribution of Disney/ABC at a particularly important time
(the "sweeps" period) to extort a better deal.  Disney/ABC, on the
other hand, is trying to make cable companies pay THEM for distributing
their content, even though it's Disney/ABC that rakes in all the
advertising money.  ABC used to be available only via their own
broadcast signal.  The cable companies now distribute their signal to a
lot more homes, with a better quality signal.  ABC ought to pay them.
So the big boys will fight it out to see who needs who the most, and
neither side is really concerned about stepping on us peasants.

Dave Wilson

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