Time Warner: What are you thinking??
Posted by: ashleya87 on: October 13, 2008
So there has been a tragedy in the television viewers’ world. Time Warner Cable has pulled the CW from their regular line-up. The CW contains 4 of the shows my house mates and I watch every week! Its been rough so far. Thankfully they ran re-runs of everything last week but tomorrow is Monday and Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill are new episodes. Its sad but my whole house will be lost.
I wanted to use this post to inform everyone as to why we no longer have The CW or CBS (Channel 4) available. Apparently The CW and CBS want Time Warner Cable to pay them to carry their stations. The problem Time Warner is having with this is that these two stations are available to people with antennas for free. They don’t their customers to have to pay for something they could receive for no cost. I suppose I agree with this I just wish it weren’t this particular station.
I might be going out on a whim here but is this issue upsetting anyone else?
2 Responses to "Time Warner: What are you thinking??"
November 13, 2008 at 2:20 am
I can feel your pain! I am not an avid gossip girl watcher but, I really did miss watching a few of the different shows.
I agree with Janelle that the Bills games were a tough loss not being able to watch on CBS. I am really glad its all back on TV because I love watching the Bills every Sunday.
I didn’t really get what the whole dispute was about but I’m glad its back!
October 22, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I personally am upset by this change in Time Warner Cable as well. My housemates and I are also Gossip Girl watchers and it’s been two weeks of episodes we’ve missed. It is sad that something this little has made us consider switching to a Dish network, but we came to terms that it’s not worth it because of one show.
Not only has the CW been lost, but CBS was the host of the Buffalo Bills games. Yes, they have been switched to a different station but I do not feel the quality of the game is the same.
Time Warner has commercials about what happened and claims that they are working on getting the stations back, but I don’t understand why it even came to this point to begin with.