Super Bowl Update

With its programming costs having soared some 30 percent in under five years - leading to a 15% increase in price to the consumer - Time Warner Cable's CEO said his company may resort to eliminating low-rated networks from its lineup to keep things affordable for consumers.

Glenn Britt made that statement Monday at a conference hosted by UBS AG. "If you have a network that is getting hash-mark ratings and no real sign it’s going to get any better," he said, "we’re going to have a different kind of conversation that we might have had five, six or 10 years ago."

The decision to drop less-popular networks hasn't gone over well in the past; some companies bundle them with their more-popular offerings and insist on a package deal.  Britt says that's going to have to change.

"We’re going to have to do things where we can," Britt said in an interview after the conference. "Stay tuned."

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