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Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 9:55 am
by JL21
http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stor ... aily2.html
Starting Dec. 31, Charter Cable may no longer carry KMOV-TV, which would affect 440,000 viewers.
CBS affiliate KMOV said it and Charter have been unable to reach an agreement on contract terms after two years of negotiations.
Charter said that it wants to carry KMOV but that the station is demanding a "significant amount of money."
"We want to continue to carry KMOV, uninterrupted," said John Miller, a Charter spokesman. "Any decision to drop KMOV from Charter’s line-up would be their decision, not Charter’s, but we hope it does not come to that."
Carriage of KMOV’s signal is also available on DirecTV and AT&T U-Verse on Channel 4 and Dish Network Channel 6454. KMOV’s signal also continues to be available over-the-air to viewers with a digital television purchased after May 2007.
“It is unfortunate that Charter does not see the value in offering KMOV’s signal to its subscribers,” said Allan Cohen, president and general manager of the station. “We remain hopeful that we can quickly resolve this issue with minimal disruption to our viewers. KMOV’s signal is carried by every other major provider that offers television service to subscribers in the St. Louis market.”
Maybe KMOV is playing hardball here. I have no idea. But given the gobs and gobs of complaints against Charter for their incompetence, I have a hard time assuming that the blame falls on KMOV. Even if it is KMOV's fault, how in the bluest ring of hell can a cable provider fail to carry CBS? That's the barest of bare minimums. If I get the cheapest cable plan out there, the one where I get like five channels and I pay you in wampum and goats in the old Babylonian barter system... I expect to AT LEAST get CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC, and PBS.
AT & T U-Verse just got a new customer.
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 10:17 am
by ghostrunner
Not sure if you care, but I don't think UVerse will be carrying MLB network.
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 10:21 am
by cardinalkarp
I'll take the referral please
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 10:27 am
by JL21
ghostrunner wrote:Not sure if you care, but I don't think UVerse will be carrying MLB network.
That's definitely going to be one of the first questions I have for them when I call.
Or... I can make karp work for the referral (which I'll gladly give)... do they carry MLB network? Is there a package I should get that has MLB network?
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 10:59 am
by cardinalkarp
JL21 wrote:ghostrunner wrote:Not sure if you care, but I don't think UVerse will be carrying MLB network.
That's definitely going to be one of the first questions I have for them when I call.
Or... I can make karp work for the referral (which I'll gladly give)... do they carry MLB network? Is there a package I should get that has MLB network?
From what I can tell, no. You've seen me complaining about dish network in the mlb network thread, obviously them and uverse are kind of on the same AT&T platform.
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 11:10 am
by JL21
This is not a good thing. I'm really looking forward to MLB network.
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 11:15 am
by cardinalkarp
JL21 wrote:This is not a good thing. I'm really looking forward to MLB network.
No kidding. I was really pissed that Dish Network doesn't have it. I'll have to assume they'll get it soon (as EVERY other provider seems to have it) but I wanted to see some of those early programs on the Redbirds.
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 11:57 am
by Transmogrified Tiger
So Charter is worried about passing on a $2/YEAR cost per customer? I don't think they will lose too many subscribers if they up cable bills by 20 cents a month to accomodate having frakkin' CBS.
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 12:01 pm
by JCShutout
Is there anything good on cbs?
Re: Charter may no longer carry KMOV
Posted: December 23 08, 12:02 pm
by cardinalkarp
JCShutout wrote:Is there anything good on cbs?
Lots of sports. Football (AFC Championship game), NCAA basketball, and for golf fans The Masters.