Time Warner- No NBC!

[jmlalit5]

NBC has removed itself from Time Warner Cable! http://www.timewarnercable.com/Dayto...ult_post2.html

NBC hasn't had a good history with Time Waner- they refuse to give me NBC in HD.

I live in Ohio and have digital cable and just got screwed out of seeing one of the very few Steelers football games I get to see. I guess I'll have to try the online broadcast.

For me NBC was channel 2, but now channel 2 is HBO Family and NBC is gone.

Anybody else getting screwed over on here?

[cajmoyper]

Wait, what? Is this just in your area? I was going to switch back to TW because what I have is just terrible quality. I don't see how they could as a company completely dump NBC.

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by jmlalit5

NBC has removed itself from Time Warner Cable! http://www.timewarnercable.com/Dayto...ult_post2.html

NBC hasn't had a good history with Time Waner- they refuse to give me NBC in HD.

I live in Ohio and have digital cable and just got screwed out of seeing one of the very few Steelers football games I get to see. I guess I'll have to try the online broadcast.

For me NBC was channel 2, but now channel 2 is HBO Family and NBC is gone.

Anybody else getting screwed over on here?

That looks more like an issue they are having with that one local NBC broadcaster and not NBC in general.

[_Bolt_]

Still works in my area

[blu-bee]

Time Warner in So Cal still serving NBC in HD.

[doctorsteve]

In Buffalo, the local CBS affiliate wants Time Warner to charge their subscribers for CBS over cable, even though they send their CBS digital hi-def signal over the air for free.

It's a way to get money out of time warner - it's crap. Time warner is retaliating by supplying rabbit ears with a switcherbox so cable subscribers can switch over to the rabbit ears for CBS feed.


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[dialog_gvf]

Originally Posted by doctorsteve

In Buffalo, the local CBS affiliate wants Time Warner to charge their subscribers for CBS over cable, even though they send their CBS digital hi-def signal over the air for free.

It's a way to get money out of time warner - it's crap. Time warner is retaliating by supplying rabbit ears with a switcherbox so cable subscribers can switch over to the rabbit ears for CBS feed.

Don't you love their little anti-TW commercials?

Gooooooooooo DISH!

[Groo The Perverted]

so does that affect NORMAL NBC?

Just wondering if that means that Time Warner subscribers will no longer get ANY NBC channel, and therefore won't be able to watch shows like Heroes, Law and Order or Chuck or Life.

[My_Two_Cents]

Not sure if this is related, but I just realized NBC-HD disappeared from my Insight lineup that I used to get on my one set connected directly through coax (no box). NBC used to be channel 3 and HD was 3.1. Now, they moved NBC to 6 and there is no 6.1 (or 3.1). I can still find HD on 3.1 OTA and HD is still available through my HD boxes, but I want it back for my family room set. Anyone else in the Louisville area notice this? Guess I'm making a phone call tomorrow. Doesn't help me now watching Heroes!

Edit: I re-ran a scan for digital channels after Heroes last night, and my NBC-HD showed back up at 3.1. Strange....

[Groo The Perverted]

FOX is gone as well. So is CBS.

I was talking to my Dad tonight and I asked him how he liked the Terminator show and Prison Break. he said they weren't on.

I catch mine online (completely legally I'm sure) and had to look online for the news but apparantly TWC is not having a good week as far as cable companies pulling out.

[fatediesel]

This happened in my area a couple years ago. In Iowa Mediacom is the biggest cable company. Sinclair Broadcasting owned the Fox affiliate in the Des Moines area (biggest market in state) and the CBS affiliate in the Waterloo/Cedar Rapids/Iowa City areas (about 500,000 affected people). Mediacom had always gotten the channels for free and refused to pay so the residents who had Mediacom lost those channels for about a month (I live in a town with a municipal cable company and was unaffected). This was in January so the Des Moines people missed the beginning of American Idol and the Waterloo area people missed the AFC playoffs. Finally Mediacom struck a deal the day before the Super Bowl and the people got to see that. Mediacom lost thousands of customers by holding out, as I'm sure Time Warner will. I don't like it, but soon everyone is going to have to pay to see the "free" channels on cable.

[hoogoosedmoose41]

i still have NBC here near toledo ohio but they dropped fox... totally pissed cant watch the sarah conner chronicles in hd... have to watch it on the computer now...
from what i heard they werent able to negotiat a contract with fox so they dropped them?
thanks Time Warner....

you would think a channels ratings would drop if they dont get any air time.
Im wondering if the other local cable company buckeye has dropped anyone.
I noticed they replaced fox with starz for kids... ugghh

[mikejet]

You know what's worse? NO TV AND INTERNET. There was a major outage in my area yesterday that lasted until this morning. It was horrible.

[Groo The Perverted]

Originally Posted by hoogoosedmoose41

i still have NBC here near toledo ohio but they dropped fox... totally pissed cant watch the sarah conner chronicles in hd... have to watch it on the computer now...
from what i heard they werent able to negotiat a contract with fox so they dropped them?
thanks Time Warner....

you would think a channels ratings would drop if they dont get any air time.
Im wondering if the other local cable company buckeye has dropped anyone.
I noticed they replaced fox with starz for kids... ugghh

Well I'm sure you're REALLY gonna hate the news that they're all but already cancelled that show.

They're supposedly gonna stop production and just air the ones already in the can. The ratings are bad and Fox is blaming it for the bad ratings of Prison Break. They like Prison Break and want to move it to another timeslot.

I liked the first season of Terminator, but this season has been pretty lousy. John Connor is the dumbest SOB alive. And if the future depends on him, we're well and truly "Effed"

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by Dreaming in Blu

Well I'm sure you're REALLY gonna hate the news that they're all but already cancelled that show.

They're supposedly gonna stop production and just air the ones already in the can. The ratings are bad and Fox is blaming it for the bad ratings of Prison Break. They like Prison Break and want to move it to another timeslot.

I liked the first season of Terminator, but this season has been pretty lousy. John Connor is the dumbest SOB alive. And if the future depends on him, we're well and truly "Effed"

Got any links to prove they're about to cancel it? I know ratings have been poorer than hoped for but they already ordered 13 episodes for this season and I'm sure those will all air. I've heard talk that they may try to move it to another time slot to see if it will do better, as Monday night is a killer time slot.

[Groo The Perverted]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

Got any links to prove they're about to cancel it? I know ratings have been poorer than hoped for but they already ordered 13 episodes for this season and I'm sure those will all air. I've heard talk that they may try to move it to another time slot to see if it will do better, as Monday night is a killer time slot.

Well here's the article I first saw on it

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a13...nator-axe.html

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has reportedly been blamed by Fox for adversely affecting Prison Break's dwindling US ratings.

"Audiences just aren't responding to the show," a Fox source told website SyFy Portal about Sarah Connor, which is screened at 8pm on Monday nights as a lead-in to the jailbreak drama. "Our biggest surprise is the 18-to-49s [demographic] - those numbers are in the toilet."

The insider added that Fox is likely to axe the Terminator spinoff during its current second season and attempt to salvage Prison Break in another timeslot.

"All I can say is that production will likely stop, and I would think that Fox might try to air some of the episodes already in the can," the source stated. "But I don't know. They don't want to lose Prison Break, so there could be some schedule shuffling in the future."

Couple more articles

http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/20458.html

http://io9.com/5056899/can-sarah-con...ind-the-future

[vw mofo]

Originally Posted by jmlalit5

NBC has removed itself from Time Warner Cable! http://www.timewarnercable.com/Dayto...ult_post2.html

NBC hasn't had a good history with Time Waner- they refuse to give me NBC in HD.

I live in Ohio and have digital cable and just got screwed out of seeing one of the very few Steelers football games I get to see. I guess I'll have to try the online broadcast.

For me NBC was channel 2, but now channel 2 is HBO Family and NBC is gone.

Anybody else getting screwed over on here?

This isn't a dispute between TWC and NBC, it's with TWC and LinTV who are the parent company of WDTN and several other stations across the country. They [LinTV] are notorious for being difficult to deal with and are the sole reason why channel 2 has never had an HD channel on TWC, even when they used to be an ABC affiliate.

You do have an option other than switching to dish, u-verse, or direct. Put up an antenna. Not only will you get WDTN, but you'll also get it in HD and with less compression than TWC tries to pass off as acceptable.

Depending where you live in Dayton, you'll be surprised how many stations you'll get with the right antenna. I'm all the way up in Huber and can get almost all of Cincy's stations as well.

[jmlalit5]

Originally Posted by vw mofo

This isn't a dispute between TWC and NBC, it's with TWC and LinTV who are the parent company of WDTN and several other stations across the country. They [LinTV] are notorious for being difficult to deal with and are the sole reason why channel 2 has never had an HD channel on TWC, even when they used to be an ABC affiliate.

You do have an option other than switching to dish, u-verse, or direct. Put up an antenna. Not only will you get WDTN, but you'll also get it in HD and with less compression than TWC tries to pass off as acceptable.

Depending where you live in Dayton, you'll be surprised how many stations you'll get with the right antenna. I'm all the way up in Huber and can get almost all of Cincy's stations as well.

Wow....thanks a lot! I never knew I could do that, that's awesome!

[KamiAmaya]

Originally Posted by jmlalit5

NBC has removed itself from Time Warner Cable! http://www.timewarnercable.com/Dayto...ult_post2.html

NBC hasn't had a good history with Time Waner- they refuse to give me NBC in HD.

I live in Ohio and have digital cable and just got screwed out of seeing one of the very few Steelers football games I get to see. I guess I'll have to try the online broadcast.

For me NBC was channel 2, but now channel 2 is HBO Family and NBC is gone.

Anybody else getting screwed over on here?

Damn, I'm in Maryland and not getting screwed that bad

But we've never had NBC in HD here. I hate that the Steelers football game in HD would have been great
Stupid cable company could get rid of one of the like 10 porn channels or one of the 4 CBS channels to make way for an NBC HD

I guess I can't complain too much though, the cable company did recently add USA and Sci-Fi in HD to the lineup. Said they added them to better compete with dish network or something.

[jmlalit5]

Originally Posted by KamiAmaya

Damn, I'm in Maryland and not getting screwed that bad

But we've never had NBC in HD here. I hate that the Steelers football game in HD would have been great
Stupid cable company could get rid of one of the like 10 porn channels or one of the 4 CBS channels to make way for an NBC HD

I guess I can't complain too much though, the cable company did recently add USA and Sci-Fi in HD to the lineup. Said they added them to better compete with dish network or something.

Sci-fi HD, I want that
I would have already switched to Direct or Dish if everyone else in my house wasn't against it. Of all of the channels I want in HD, NBC would be my first choice. For now, I'll have to watch everything online until they work this out, and they'd better because NBC has the Super Bowl this year!