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There have been several such battles this year. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVDs The latest is between Disney (parent company to such widely-viewed channels as ABC, Mickey Mouse DVD the Disney Channel and ESPN) and Time Warner Cable, the nation's second-largest service provider. Like other programmers in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse DVD those earlier squabbles, Disney is negotiating for increased carriage fees, the per-subscriber amounts that the service provider pays to carry each channel.
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The Disney-TWC tug-of-war (best described in this Ben 10 Alien Force DVD Set Los Angeles Times article) echoes similar spats earlier this yearBen 10 DVD over proposed carriage fee increases, including one between TWC and Fox, one between Cablevision and Scripps (parent company of Food Network and 24 Hours DVD Season HGTV), one between Cablevision and Disney, and one between The Weather 24 Seasons 1-8 DVD Channel and Dish Network.
In each case, the programmer threatened to pull the Prison Break DVD Season plug on those channels unless the service provider paid up. In fact, Food Network Prison Break DVDs and HGTV briefly went dark on Cablevision, and so did ABC, with the impasse going unresolved Prison Break complete box set right up to the beginning of the Oscars, sABC' most highly-rated program of the year. TWC and Fox resolved their dispute just in time to keep New Year's college football games on the air.
Why are all the channels suddenly asking for more money?CSI New York box set In part, it's because one of their two revenue streams, the advertising market, CSI New York DVD has been hit hard during the financial crisis of the past couple of years, so they're trying to make up the difference via the other stream, carriage fees.
This wouldn't have been possible 18 years ago,Ghost Whisperer DVDs when the current FCC regulations governing cable retransmission of programming were put into place. Back then, cable operators held most of the power, Ghost Whisperer 1-5 DVD but now that there's more market competition from satellite and phone companies, programmers can safely negotiate for higher fees.
Disney's public relations move during the current the simpsons on dvd battle has been to create a website called IHaveChoices.com, which reminds the simpsons dvd TWC subscribers that they can always switch to such providers as AT&T's U-Verse, Verizon's FIOS, Dish, or DirecTV.
Or if you're a TWC subscriber in a market where Disney-owned ABC affiliates may go dark (that is, New York, Los Angeles,Futurama DVD Season Toledo, or Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville), you can also switch to the free, over-the-air broadcast signal (remember that?) to get ABC (though you may Futurama 1-5 Box Set still need a converter box to decode the digital signal).
Time Warner Cable has its own consumer PR site, whose very name urges customers to RollOverOrGetTough. It's the same site the company rolled out last winter during the Fox fight, and married with children dvd season it doesn't mention Disney by name, though it does urge customers to lobby against higher carriage costs across the board. After all, once married with children new release the Disney dispute is settled, TWC may need this site again for another struggle against a different network.
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