Crazy Like a Fox
January 2, 2010
News Corporation, the parent company of Fox Television, made an unprecedented demand. They want Time Warner cable systems to pay for the right to air Fox Network programming. While it is traditional for Time Warner to pay for cable channels such as F/X, Fox Sports, and Speed, the local network broadcasts do not require a fee. News Corp was demanding $1 per subscriber and if it was not paid, they would pull their channels from Time Warner subscribers starting January 1, 2010. In what became a very ugly and public battle, Fox used time during its local news broadcasts to urge viewers to voice their support on a specially created website. The absence of local Fox programming would mean no American Idol, Glee, or NCAA and NFL Football. Fox would also lose much of the advertising revenue they had sold for those programs. At the last minute, Fox agreed to an extension to negotiations and an agreement was reached but details are not being disclosed. click here for limerick
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