Time Warner Cable is expected to announce at any time that it has reached a deal with the National Football League to add the NFL Network to its channel lineup.
TWC is the last of the major cable companies to hold out on NFL Network; Cablevision, which is based in New York, finally added the channel in August.
For some Tri-Staters, including Owensboro, other Western Kentucky communities and Newburgh and Rockport, Ind., the addition of NFL Network is the first time they'll have seen it since 2006, when TWC purchased the remains of the bankrupt Adelphia Communications. For others - those who are customers of the former Insight Communications or in areas of Western Kentucky purchased from NewWave Communications - the "NFL Network drought" has been far shorter.
Terms of the new deal have not been made public, although SNL Kagan, which has studied cable networks and what they charge, estimates that NFL Network costs cable companies 95 cents per subscriber per month.
More details to come as they become available.
MORE READING:
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE - "Report: Time Warner Cable in deal to carry NFL Network"
- THE NEW YORK TIMES - "Time Warner Is Said to Agree to Carry NFL Network"
- BLOOMBERG - "NFL Said to Have Deal With Time Warner for NFL Network"
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