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Time Warner Cable has ended the latest round of talks with the National Football League to bring the NFL Network and NFL RedZone to Time Warner cable customers.
Sports Business Daily reports the talks ended with a contentious meeting held last Friday at the cable company’s New York office. Sources say the talks didn’t end with a dispute over the cost of the network, noted to be among the most expensive sports networks available. That likely leaves streaming and other ancillary rights issues to be the latest reasons for the talks to end. Time Warner has gotten aggressive in negotiations for the right to stream cable programming, and also time shift it for subscribers with its “start over” feature.
The NFL has been negotiating with the cable operator more more than seven years without success.
It is silly decisions like this that has caused Time Warner to loose customers in the last quarter. It isn’t only the NFL Network they won’t carry, but also MSG. MSG carries the Sabres! That is why I stick with Directv. It isn’t always the cheapest, but they carry all the good sports channels.
Rob,
What are you talking about? Time Warner have never not carried MSG or the Sabres.
Try and get your facts right.
That’s a shame that Time Warner wasn’t able to work out something to get the NFL Network and NFL RedZone. I know that there are a lot of unhappy customers. I’m glad that I have DISH Network, because it is nice to know that I can turn on the TV on Sunday and catch every touchdown from every game. As an employee, I know that DISH will work hard to get the best channels for me. Maybe next year Time Warner will have better luck next time.