CBS and Time Warner Cable dispute resolved - Brownsville Herald

class=”dateline”> NEW YORK – The CBS and Time Warner Cable on Monday ended a dispute over a month and resumed transmission to millions of homes in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles .

The agreement ended a lock owned by CBS channels, including Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network and Smithsonian. The contract disagreement began on August 2 and affected more than three million homes. Broadcasts resumed on Monday night on the East Coast.

The dispute centered on how much you pay for Time Warner Cable Inc. CBS Corp. programming for distribution to its cable television subscribers. The terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed.

This includes fees for retransmission in which the cable operator pays for each subscriber CBS, one of the sticking points in the dispute.

The disagreement came at a sensitive time for both television channels to cable companies, as more and more Americans are choosing alternative ways to watch TV, including the internet, the Roku box or Apple TV. In addition, companies facing additional pressure to reach an agreement due to the start of the football season and the U.S. Open.

embargo affected about 1.1 million households in New York of the 7.4 million receiving CBS.

Approximately 1.3 million of the 5.6 million households in Los Angeles experienced the blackout, and 400,000 of the 2.6 million TV homes in Dallas, reported CBS. These three cities are three of the five largest television markets in the country.

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reduced the dispute estimated national audience of the chain by about 1%.

The negotiations were closely followed because of the idea that a retransmission agreement set a precedent for future negotiations between networks and cable companies or satellite. Another point of contention was the Time Warner access to CBS to broadcast material on demand or phones and tablet computers.

“While certainly did not get everything we wanted, in the end we ended up in a much better position than when we started,” said CEO of Time Warner Cable, Glenn Britt said in a statement.

Mignon L. Clyburn, interim president of the Federal Communications Commission issued a statement which said “pleased that CBS and Time Warner Cable negotiations have resolved their approval of the relay, which for too long had deprived millions of consumers access to CBS programming. “

the end, he said, companies in the media “should accept a shared responsibility” to give priority to the interests of its hearings on other interests.