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Time Warner/Viacom Rift Healed, Pending Details

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 1, 2009 @03:00PM from the idiot-boxers-hit-the-showers dept.

jwilcox154 writes "Yesterday a dispute over fee hikes had threatened a damaging blackout at a minute past midnight Thursday that would have prevented TWC subscribers from watching their favorite shows such as 'SpongeBob SquarePants' and 'The Colbert Report.' The two sides reached an agreement on Thursday, the first of January 2009. The companies stated the terms of the deal were not disclosed. Details must still be finalized over the next few days."

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Re:Subject by DigitAl56K · 2009-01-01 16:21 · Score: 5, Informative

From the mouth of the TWC CEO:
Link #1 "Viacom is trying to extort another $39 million annually"
Link #2 Viacom threatens to block TWC subscribers from accessing their free online content. They not only insinuate this to TWC during negotiations, but apparently also to subscribers using TWC's ISP as evidenced by this screenshot.