Time Warner Cable agreed to extend carriage of NFL Network for 12...
Time Warner Cable agreed to extend carriage of NFL Network for 12 more days, setting a new cutoff deadline of 11:59 p.m. Sept. 15 if an accord can’t be reached between the firms, said a spokeswoman. The extension gives…
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the cable operator additional time to meet an FCC emergency order (Aug 8 p10) to give customers 30 days’ notice before dropping the channel, said attorney Gerard Waldron, representing NFL Network. Time Warner needed extra time to run ads in weekly newspapers to inform customers, he told us. Prospects for a carriage deal aren’t great, said a person familiar with the negotiations. NFL hopes to reach an accord, said Waldron. Time Warner wants to carry the channel on a sports tier available to expanded-basic customers at an additional cost, while the network wants to be on the expanded basic tier, said the company official. “September 15 will be the deadline for both parties to reach a deal,” an NFL Network spokesman said: “If they don’t, it’s unlikely Time Warner will ever carry NFL Network.” The Time Warner official said: “In the event that we don’t reach an agreement with the NFL Network, we… unfortunately will have to remove that programming” on the 15th.