Come midnight tomorrow, Time Warner Cable customers will probably need to seek alternative means of tuning into their favorite NBC shows. The communications giant and LIN-TV , which owns local NBC affiliate KXAN, have thus far failed to reach an amicable agreement in their ongoing dispute over the subscription fees that TWC pays to carry their signals. The current transmission contract is set to expire at midnight on Thursday, after which KXAN's feed will most likely be removed from Time Warner Cable's broadcast service. Austinist recently interviewed Eric Lassberg , General Manager at KXAN, who stressed that the "dispute is about fair and equitable treatment." "Time Warner charges its cable subscribers a fee to provide KXAN-TV in its channel line-up," he said. "It also charges its cable subscribers a fee to provide cable networks, which cable subscribers may or may not watch. Time Warner shares that fee with the cable networks; however, it does not share that fee with us. In essence, it takes our signal for free and resells it for a profit." Time Warner Cable did not respond to our requests for comment, though a representative told Austin360 TV guru Diane Holloway that the company was "doing everything we can for this not to happen," and that there were "no winners in this situation." Clearly, both sides stand to lose considerably should the breakup happen — KXAN derives approximately half of its viewership from TWC, while the l ...
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Come midnight tomorrow, Time Warner Cable customers will probably need to seek alternative means of tuning into their favorite NBC shows. The communications giant and LIN-TV , which owns local NBC affiliate KXAN, have thus far failed to reach an amicable agreement in their ongoing dispute over the subscription fees that TWC pays to carry their signals. The current transmission contract is set to expire at midnight on Thursday, after which KXAN's feed will most likely be removed from Time Warner Cable's broadcast service. Austinist recently interviewed Eric Lassberg , General Manager at KXAN, who stressed that the "dispute is about fair and equitable treatment." "Time Warner charges its cable subscribers a fee to provide KXAN-TV in its channel line-up," he said. "It also charges its cable subscribers a fee to provide cable networks, which cable subscribers may or may not watch. Time Warner shares that fee with the cable networks; however, it does not share that fee with us. In essence, it takes our signal for free and resells it for a profit." Time Warner Cable did not respond to our requests for comment, though a representative told Austin360 TV guru Diane Holloway that the company was "doing everything we can for this not to happen," and that there were "no winners in this situation." Clearly, both sides stand to lose considerably should the breakup happen — KXAN derives approximately half of its viewership from TWC, while the l ...