Time Warner Cable raising rates and adding a " broadcast TV" fee

[newarkhiphop]

Time Warner Cable is raising its cable television and Internet service prices and imposing a new fee for retransmitting broadcast stations that customers can get free over the air.

The media giant said the higher rates will increase the average customer's bill 6.4 percent. It attributed the increase in part to rising rates that television networks and programming providers are charging Time Warner for the right to carry their channels on its cable system.

"We work our hardest to control these costs on your behalf, but the price of programming is increasing dramatically," the company said in a notice to customers.

Another factor is the cost to maintain and grow its network, the company said. Time Warner spokeswoman Joli Plucknette-Farmen said the company invested $227 million in its network across the Northeast in 2013.

The company's standard television service, which includes about 80 mostly standard-definition channels, will rise from $79.99 to $82.99 a month. Digital television service, which includes more than 200 channels, many in high-definition, will increase from $88.98 to $92.99.

In addition, the cost of renting a cable converter box, which is needed to receive the company's digital television service, will rise from $8.99 to $10.25 a month for the first box and from $6.20 to $7.45 for each additional box.

For the first time, customers will be charged what Time Warner is calling a "broadcast TV fee" of $2.25 a month. The company said the fee will defray the increased costs that broadcasters charge Time Warner to retransmit their over-the-air signals.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index....rease_broadcast_tv_fee_internet_cable_tv.html

 

[newarkhiphop]

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/cut-cable-brehs.151746/

 

[-DMP-]

They are also throttling netflix speeds to. fukking hate cable companies.

-DMP-

 

[radio rahiem]

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[Wild self]

They are also throttling netflix speeds to. fukking hate cable companies.

-DMP-

They know that their time running shyt is coming to an end. Kinds reminds me of the music industry that sued people 10 years ago for downloading.

 

[winb83]

Time Warner's normal cable package is over $80? fukk that.

 

[Tommy Fits]

How do you charge for something that is free lol.

 

[Boolean]

Google Fiber ain't ever coming to NY

 

[winb83]

How do you charge for something that is free lol.

cable companies have to pay very high fees to carry those "free" channels you can get over the air. I'm pretty sure if people would allow them cable companies would drop those channels and tell you go buy an antenna but people would find that unacceptable. this gives those OTA channels outrageous leverage and thus they get to rape cable companies who inturn pass that on to their customers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retransmission_consent
http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-..._retransmission-fees-tv-stations-similar-fees

 

[Tommy Fits]

Google Fiber ain't ever coming to NY

If memory serves me right it took a while for the outer boros just to get cable internet. I knew a few people that still had 56k because time Warner has yet offered cable internet to their area. And this was a couple of years after cable internet really started to blow up.

 

[One4Deuce]

Cable is slowly dying... at least in its current form. There's no way the model can last. I was paying over $100 just for my cable, not including my internet over a year ago when I cut cable. Don't regret it at all. That's a large chunk of change every month that stays in my pocket.

 

[ch15x]

Like a sundial, I'm edging closer to cutting the cable myself. Sports and the lack of quality OTA programming in my area () is what's been stopping me, though it's been losing it's grip lately...

 

[winb83]

Cable is slowly dying... at least in its current form. There's no way the model can last. I was paying over $100 just for my cable, not including my internet over a year ago when I cut cable. Don't regret it at all. That's a large chunk of change every month that stays in my pocket.

most people probably won't like the next evolution of the cable model. Netflix and Hulu are already showing signs of it. Networks going online and streaming original programming. When these broadcast networks move over to something closer to that all this content is gonna be segmented off into different subscriptions. They'll likely pull all their content off rival services (Netflix and Hulu) and make you subscribe to their service to get their shows.

The big cable companies will survive as they provide internet to customers now. they'll likely raise the price on online services. they'll also likely work out bundles of these segmented services so you can get something close to À la carte like people have been clamoring for but at a much inflated price.

 

[duncanthetall]

Until someone offers genuine a la carte cable, don't give a fukk. These dudes already charge an insane amount just for fukking TV.