If you're an Insight customer (which, as you know, is now part of Time Warner Cable) and you enjoy watching NFL Network, get your fill this weekend, Monday and Tuesday, because it won't be available to you starting Wednesday.
Since Time Warner Cable's recent purchase of Insight, which was finalized earlier this year, it's been a question of when, not if, the cable giant would take the network away from its customers. The company decided to allow Insight's contract with the NFL to run its course, and that contract ends Tuesday night.
NFL RedZone will also be removed from the lineup along with NFL Network.
TWC is the largest pay-TV provider in the country that does not allow its customers access to NFL Network, and the company's refusal to cut a deal sticks in the craw of the NFL. "We are disappointed that Time Warner Cable has taken away NFL Network and NFL RedZone from the many Insight customers who have enjoyed both channels for many years," the network said in a statement. "There are no current negotiations with Time Warner Cable, which remains the only TV provider among the top eight in the country which refuses to offer its customers NFL Network."
For its part, TWC says the cost is just too great for no more than customers get from the network. "We regret that some of our customers will be disappointed to no longer receive those channels, but the terms being demanded now for the NFL Network are out of line for a network willing to guarantee just a handful of live games," TWC spokesman Mike Hogan told Cincinnati.com's John Kiesewetter.
Of course, NFL Network will televise 13 games this season - which, by my count, is more than a "handful." And Insight viewers won't see any of them, nor the other programming the network offers.
And don't expect your bill to go down, either: "Customers do not pay for channels on an individual basis — they pay for a package of channels plus the technology and service required to deliver those channels," Hogan explained. "So we do not typically offer a credit for channels that have been blacked out."
And don't expect your bill to go down, either: "Customers do not pay for channels on an individual basis — they pay for a package of channels plus the technology and service required to deliver those channels," Hogan explained. "So we do not typically offer a credit for channels that have been blacked out."
What do you think about this move? Leave me a comment or email me.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Insight (now Time Warner Cable) customers in the Louisville, Lexington and Bowling Green markets as well as the following Tri-State communities are affected by this move:
- SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA: Evansville, Boonville, Cynthiana, Ft. Branch, Haubstadt, Huntingburg, Jasper, Mt. Vernon, Owensville, Poseyville & Princeton
- WESTERN KENTUCKY: Corydon & Henderson
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