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Time Warner/Viacom Rift Healed, Pending Details
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."
I don't know about red on slashdot, but there was red in my toilet. I dropped a fat log a couple hours ago. It felt like a nigger cock raping my poor white asshole. When I wiped my ass, it was soaked in blood. Serves me right for letting Big Bruce fist me at last night's LUG.
It would be better than anything else on their network.
It's not like Viacom wanting an extra quarter per month per subscriber is going to put a dent in the already ridiculously high cable bill TWC customers receive.
Look at what TWC gives me: Local channels, which I watch, but which I could also get for free over the air. Viacom channels, a few of which I watch. Then there are a few other channels I watch, but no more than the number of Viacom channels that I watch. Then there are a bunch of other channels which I don't watch.
So in all, when you ignore the local channels I watch, which I could get just as easily without cable, half of the channels I watch are Viacom channels. Yet half of my cable bill doesn't go to Viacom. Less than 5% of it does. So where the fuck does the rest go?
I suppose another 5% goes to whichever provider owns the other non-local channels I watch. Maybe another 40% goes to maintaining that wire that brings me the channels. The remaining 50% apparently just goes to fund vacations for execuatives at TWC or some bullshit like that.
Yes, cable bills are high enough as they are, but it doesn't appear that the fault lies with Viacom. Viacom's fees are a very small part of my cable bill, and all Viacom wants to do is make them a slightly larger very small part of my cable bill. ...but some jackass at TWC decided that, rather than pay another quarter a month, they'd "protect their customers" by removing some of their most popular channels. Yes, sure, I believe that.
I'll tell you who caved. TWC caved just as soon as they received their 1,000th call from a customer who wanted to cancel their cable subscription since it wasn't worth what they were paying before and now it most definately wasn't worth it since half of their favorite channels were removed.
This is all nothing but TWC trying to squeeze every last penny out of everyone, just as they always do.