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WEAR 3 To Remain On Cable In Century, Cantonment For Now
January 1, 2011
Cable television customers in Century and Cantonment won’t be losing WEAR 3 — at least for the next couple of weeks.
Bright House Networks and the Sinclair Broadcast Group reached a last minute deal late Friday that will keep WEAR 3 on the cable systems in Century and Cantonment until January 14. In the meantime, negotiations toward a long-term retransmission agreement will continue between the two companies.
“We will continue to work toward a fair deal for our customers,” said Bright House CEO Steve Miron.
“We intend to continue our good-faith negotiations during this period with the intent of finalizing a longer-term agreement at pricing that reflects the higher cost of programming we are faced with today,” said Barry Faber, executive vice president and general counsel of Sinclair.
Nationwide, the talks affect just over 30 television stations that are owned or operated by Sinclair.
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9 Responses to “WEAR 3 To Remain On Cable In Century, Cantonment For Now”
Sinclair is a money hungery company If Brighthouse lets Sinclair get away with this we will all pay for this. I think all the cable companies should demand lower cost to carry local channels when these channels are free over the air with the same picture quality
I currently pay $125 per month on brighthouse for Cable + Showtime, Telephone, and 16meg Internet Service… With Dish Network, in order to get the same programming for 5 televisions it was $154 per month, and that was without telephone or Internet.
Sinclair is the problem, in the past they have also had issues with Cox and Mediacom. When was the last time you heard channels 5, 10 or 15, run ads about not being able to get their programming? Sinclair is obviously out of touch with the fact that with the new digital signal a quality version of their programming is available FREE over the airwaves and they can no longer jack up the price on the cable companies. And incase anyone is wondering, No I don’t work in the Cable TV industry, just a consumer..
My mom lives in Century and I am doing my best to convince her to get satellite. Its so much cheaper than cable and would have a lot better selection of channels to watch. Bright House is a rip off because they have no competition.
How long will it be before anyone notices that Sinclair is the problem? They just went through this with Mediacom.
Been with directv for 13 years, and never a complaint. Always cheaper than cable and better service. Still don’t understand how any cable company is still in business…
THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO THAT JUNK ANOTHER WEEK,
I knew they were not loosing channel 3 if they did they would have to close their doors i was so close to doing to Direct,,, i changed my mind real quick !!! i thought at the last minute they would make a deal ! HAPPY NEW YEAR BRIGHT HOUSE
I wonder how many MORE customers Bright House LOST from this mistake.
Nothing like having CH.3 advertising FOR the Bright House’s competition to get their attention.
I bet a LOT of people realized how much money they were wasting on limited cable over satellite. Cable is WAY over the top in charges per month.
Haha! What a scam…