NICK GOES DARK ON TIME WARNER

[Lil' Cheney]

IF YOU HAVE TIME WARNER CABLE, PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE!


On Thursday, at 12:01 AM, less than 12 hours from now, All of Viacom's chanels, including Nick, Comedy Central, MTV, TVLAND, AND OTHERS, 16 IN TOTAL. WILL GO AWAY.

This is because Viacaon wants 32 billion dollars as a fee to keep Thier channels on Time Warner. Time Warner is working to keeep these chanles alive while making sure that customers don't have to pay as much, but it does not look good.


I DID see a crawl last ngith while watching comedy central. IT was during a movie I didn't care abot and it had a number that Time Warner customes call to demand to keep those channels, but I don't remeber the numbers.


I didn't know it would be THIS soon, bu I'm giving you guys the heads up.


THIS ISN'T A HOAX! I learned the actual date and time from the AP, which can be accessed by www.AP.org .

No Nick means no Avatar. If you have Time Warner Cable, maybe it's time to swtich to satelite, or revert to YouTube.

Thanks for listening! Viacom.com might have the numbers you call.... theres another cable company doing it to, it started with a b, but I can't remember the exact name.

EDIT: The story can be read at cnn.com . The story name is "Cable tussles threaten favorite shows"

[Grandi]

This is because Time Warner CAble wants 32 billion dollars as a fee to keep viacoms channels. Viacom is working to keeep these chanles alive while making sure that customers don't have to pay as much, but it does not look good.

YOU GOT THAT BACKWARDS

www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/30/time-warner-cable-cuts-of_n_154378.html

"Viacom has asked for fee increases of between 22 percent and 36 percent per channel, or a total of $39 million more, an amount that could increase customers' cable bills, said Time Warner Cable spokesman Alex Dudley."

[nandireya]

Either way it's still a pretty massive increase...Viacom isn't doing anything to endear itself to anyone...

[Lil' Cheney]

I'm really only worried if any of us has Time Warner, and even then it's only an issue if they actually deliver on those three one-hour specials they talked about

[nandireya]

I thought those had already been debunked? I think there's a significance to the fact that the final episode had a big 'The End' before the credits rolled.

Regardless...it they do appear they'll be released on DVD...and less scrupulous platforms...so it's not like anyone will miss out.

[asian malaysian]

Well, it looks like theyve settled the dispute. The propsect of dealing with all those kids squalling over Dora the Explorer must have sealed the deal.

[nandireya]

Dora's not on Nick here...at least not on main Nick...it's on Nick Jr...along with all the other little kiddie stuff...makes Nick a lot more watchable...except for the fact that the Sponge is on about 10 times a day...it seems to be every second program...

Did a search...it's on 131 times this week...isn't there only 120 episodes of it? Avatar's on 13 times...but it's season one...

[Lil' Cheney]

Spongebob.... the main reason I wanted thsi to go through...


if the people in time warners area go without spongebob, the ratings will drop. This will make them reconsider having it on that much.


Is it still nickelodeon? Last tiem I checked it was the Spongebob Worldwide Network.

[asian malaysian]

^^ The prospect of having all those subscribers and advertisers dropping on the deck and flopping like fishes would have harmed both Viacom and Time Warner.

[Sheogorath]

Doesn't effect me. I have DirecTV. But that kinda sucks.