CigarStone
For once, knowledge is making me poor!
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A close friend is the president of one of Time Warner's divisions (let's call him Joe) and in a conversation several months ago Joe shared some interesting stuff. I am sure negotiations have modified this position in the last few months but Joe indicated this was the major stumbling block at that time.
One of the big reasons for the stalemate between cable TV and NFL Network is that NFL Network is trying to tell cable TV what they should charge, and who they should charge, for NFL Network rather than simply negotiating a price for their product and allowing the cable companies to price the cable product as required.
NFL Network has mandated that cable TV charge "every single cable TV customer" a fee for NFL Network being included on cable TV. Time Warner wants to charge the people who "want" NFL Network. NFL Network realizes that such a "user based" fee would be high and they want this high fee diffused by charging a smaller fee to "everyone".
Recently, Roger Goodell proposed to Time Warner that each company submit a proposal and if they couldn't agree, a mediator would intervene. Time Warner said "no thank you" and NFL Network put out a smear campaign saying "we proposed a fair solution and TW refused to even participate"......you may have seen this last week on ESPN and NFL Network. What they didn't say was that the proposals had to be based on NFL Network's basis of "charge everyone". This would be like the fox asking that both sides propose a solution in which he gets to guard the henhouse :0
When I asked Joe why TW doesn't use their media to publicize the truth, he said "we don't think we need to get into a mud slinging contest, NFL Network will probably shoot themselves in the foot soon enough"
Too bad nobody is publicizing the truth!
One of the big reasons for the stalemate between cable TV and NFL Network is that NFL Network is trying to tell cable TV what they should charge, and who they should charge, for NFL Network rather than simply negotiating a price for their product and allowing the cable companies to price the cable product as required.
NFL Network has mandated that cable TV charge "every single cable TV customer" a fee for NFL Network being included on cable TV. Time Warner wants to charge the people who "want" NFL Network. NFL Network realizes that such a "user based" fee would be high and they want this high fee diffused by charging a smaller fee to "everyone".
Recently, Roger Goodell proposed to Time Warner that each company submit a proposal and if they couldn't agree, a mediator would intervene. Time Warner said "no thank you" and NFL Network put out a smear campaign saying "we proposed a fair solution and TW refused to even participate"......you may have seen this last week on ESPN and NFL Network. What they didn't say was that the proposals had to be based on NFL Network's basis of "charge everyone". This would be like the fox asking that both sides propose a solution in which he gets to guard the henhouse :0
When I asked Joe why TW doesn't use their media to publicize the truth, he said "we don't think we need to get into a mud slinging contest, NFL Network will probably shoot themselves in the foot soon enough"
Too bad nobody is publicizing the truth!