Time Warner Cable Sued by Customers Fed Up With CBS Blackout

[alp227]

Time Warner Cable customers are waging a legal war against the cable company for dropping CBS while the companies bicker over cable fees.

Three plaintiffs filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Time Warner Cable Inc. in Los Angeles County Superior Court. They hope to build their case into a class action with Time Warner Cable subscribers in California starting from Aug. 2, 2013, when the cable company began to block out four channels in the state.

About 3.5 million customers in areas of Dallas, Los Angeles and New York don't have access to CBS programming such as "Under the Dome" and "Big Brother."

Time Warner is battling over fees it pays to CBS to run its programming. The cable company has marketed aggressively to customers, encouraging them to complain to CBS.

full: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/time-warner-cable-customers-hope-build-class-action/story?id=19970548&singlePage=true

[SoCalDem]

1. In this day & age, people should just switch to Dish/Direct

Cable companies no longer control their market.. There are other options..for less money than some charge.

[msongs]

2. time to end monopoly cable operator control of local markets. nt

[SoCalNative]

3. Except TWC didn't pull the plug on CBS channels

CBS did

[greyl]

4. Big fat lie, third paragraph.

"About 3.5 million customers in areas of Dallas, Los Angeles and New York don't have access to CBS programming..."

It's still accessible - and free! - in those areas by using a digital receiver (might need an antenna), not to mention the Internet.

[RockaFowler]

5. That's Cable Propaganda For You

I worked for Comcast back in the day and I know Cable Speak when I see it. We would charge people $20 a month for "limited" service that was free from an antenna. They are going to realize when they lose all of their customers that their little parlor tricks are not going to work anymore!!

[geek tragedy]

6. Warning: ABC News is engaging in self-serving propaganda here.

TWC is not 'blocking' CBS, it's CBS that's not allowing its signal to be broadcast on TWC.

Of course, ABC Disney plays the same game that CBS does, ergo the misrepresentation.

[Blaspherian]

7. Cut cable

go to netflix