Or to be more accurate--Time Warner sucks. Big time. I love getting the run around. I swear I'm switching to DISH. For the last couple months or so, TW has blurbed on the Weather channel screen that they may be dropping our local NB affiliate, pending "ongoing negotiations." MMM..HMMMM. Anyway, as it got closer to the deadline this past couple of weeks, reception (and I have digital) has been getting worse and worse. So last night, I turned to the news on that channel and got...nothing. So I called TW and was told there was a local outage, nothing to due with the fact that tonight is the deadline. Ok, fine. Today after I got home from PT the channel still wasn't on, nor was it on this morning as my kids got ready for school (we had a dusitng of snow yesterday--you know kids). So I called again and was told it was off the air and to call my local station. I did, after giving TW a piece of my mind (like I can spare any), and was told to call the cable co.
I called Dad, who recommended the co. commission, as they license the cable franchise. They told me it wasn't their problem and to call the PSC for the state. Which I did, and they referred me back to the co. commission. This time I called them back and told them to find out who in the hell knew anything down there and to have them call me back. Well, you can guess, no phone call. That's fine. I will call back Monday and let that gentleman have it for not returning my call.
About 5:30 today I got online and went the the local station's homepage. Lo and behold, they said, in a post from about 4pm, that a deal had been reached. Oh goody. So I go to the TV and turn to that station and guess what--no feed. So I call TW again and say what the hell. They don;'t know and all that. So there is an order supposedly in to check the signal. Yeah, right.
That's ok, with DISH I'llget 3 times as many channels for about the same price.
You just watch me.
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and when the contract comes up for negotiation, like they always do, Sinclair Broadcasting (WCHS & FOX) will try to nail DISH and DirecTV to the wall just like they tried to yank 40Mil out of Suddenlink when it came in up here. They were in neg with Charter for 4mil and upped it when it got bought out.
All the local stations will continue to do this. This is what comes of deregulation and the dropping of "must-carry". Let's all thank our congress-critters for that as well as deregulation of the airline and phone companies. Have you noticed how we're almost back to MaBell again? And the airline industry is certainly consolidating once again.
I've yet to see my cable bill, phone bill, or airline fares go down. That was the promise wasn't it?
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