I searched and I couldn't find any diaries on this topic. If there are let me know, but it seems Time Warner and News Corp have been having a little spat. Fox of course, wanting to charge $1 per subscriber a month, Time Warner hit back with 30 cents a month.
But I haven't heard anything about this, if Time Warner is your cable distributor, Fox News may be no more . . .
LA Times
News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey wrote:
"At this time, it looks like we will not reach an agreement and our channels may very well go off the air in Time Warner Cable systems at midnight tomorrow, December 31. We deeply regret that millions of Fox customers will be deprived of our programming, but we need to receive fair compensation from Time Warner Cable to go forward with them. Some may ask why Fox isn’t providing an extension while negotiations continue – the fact is that we’ve been trying since the summer to negotiate a fair deal and that further extensions simply extend the period of time that Time Warner profits from our marquee programming without fairly compensating Fox for it."
Personally, no cable distributor should carry Fox or anything else News Corp produces. It's obvious the people there have an agenda and it isn't reporting the news. You either watch Fox and think they have great journalistic credibility,(and the only), or you think they're just a propaganda arm for the Ruling Classor the GOP. News Corp is also behind Disney as the world's 2nd largest media conglomerate, and 3rd in entertainment this year. Oh yeah, Rupert Murdoch also is the CEO and founder if you didn't know. Which I'm sure you did because you are at Daily Kos.
It should be our business to know that this man only became a citizen to own the company that has been as un-American as Benedict Arnold was. I think it is fishy that the Fox Entertainment Group has been a sole promoter of either Republicans or Corporations, and has been and still is %100 against President Obama and the Democrats.
But anyway, this disagreement they are having seems to settle on this little thing called price. Time Warner, located in New York, is the second biggest cable provider in this nation. So you would think price would be nothing to worry about for in-demand programs. Queue Fox News and all of it's crap that has been brought to light this year and the last.
Business Week
"Fox isn’t looking for fair compensation and we too are prepared to be without the Fox signal," Alex Dudley, a Time Warner Cable spokesman, said in an interview. "We hope Fox doesn’t punish our customers, but that decision is up to them."
The dispute centers on the price News Corp. wants New York- based Time Warner Cable, the second biggest U.S. cable operator, to pay for Fox programs including college and National Football League games and "American Idol," the most-watched U.S. TV series (that's just sad). Fox has attracted the biggest 18-to-49 age audience, a group that advertisers target, since 2004, Carey said.
Fox can’t continue to operate at the same level with only advertising revenue, Carey said.
Especially when one of their host, in the Fox Entertainment Group, lost a good 80 companies due to his proud racism and extremism. I think it's funny that the biggest cable provider in America, chooses Fox over MSNBC. It now seems the 2nd maybe leveling the playing field by (maybe involuntarily) dropping News Corp programs.
So if an agreement isn't reached by December 31, 12:00 am. We can cheer in the New Year, and also to the fact that Fox's crap can't reach a segment of our population anymore.