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Friday, October 3, 2008
KXAN goes dark for Time Warner customers
It’s midnight, and KXAN has been dropped from Time Warner Cable’s lineup. The Oct. 2 deadline for a new retransmission contract came and went without a settlement.
Negotiations will continue Friday in an attempt to settle the dispute and return KXAN and its NBC programming back to Time Warner’s Cable Channel 4. At issue is KXAN’s demand to be paid “less than a penny a day per subscriber,” according to the station, and Time Warner’s insistence that a free, over-the-air station should not be paid for its signal.
But “Today” viewers and fans of other NBC shows today likely will need to switch off their cable and resort to rabbit ears. Or, if you planned ahead, you may already be on Dish or DirecTV satellite services or AT&T’s U-verse. Smaller cable companies in your areas, like Grande and Suddenlink, also continue to carry KXAN. And you can also go to NBC.com to watch most of the network’s prime-time shows.
Here’s what Time Warner customers saw if they tuned into KXAN after midnight:
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