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...exclusive access to its cable network. That would disadvantage other Internet service providers, all of whom are looking to cable as the most versatile broadband delivery alternative. Companies like Disney complained that in addition to limiting open access, the new company might restrict interactive TV (ITV) services over TW cable. Then a roster of instant-messaging companies charged that AOL was preventing any competitor's messages from penetrating AOL's proprietary IM architecture. By the fall, when AOL Time Warner had initially estimated they would close the deal, "the FTC was hitting us with a new issue every week," says...
According to Time Warner, Disney tacked $300 million onto the price that TW would have to pay to carry the channels, an increase that would have raised the cable company's costs to $1.3 billion over 10 years. Disney naturally disputes that amount...
...case, Time Warner Cable chairman Joe Collins held an apparent ace. He could shut down access to Disney's ABC network on TW systems at the beginning of May, the "sweeps month," which determines ad rates for the coming broadcast season. But if Collins did play that card, Disney executives surely realized, the public relations victory would be theirs. If you begin with the premise that people don't like their cable company, it would have been hard for TW to win a hearts-and-minds-of-the-public battle with Attila...
Hence, when the first night of the ABC blackout separated viewers from Regis, TW was cooked. Worse still, the words that the company emblazoned on the blank screen that normally would have been carrying ABC programming was a piece of Orwellian newspeak that suggested precisely the opposite of what it said: "Disney Has Taken ABC Away from...
Meanwhile, Time Warner and Disney will soon be back at the table. In New York City, TW has offered to make nice by giving all its cable customers a refund on two full days of basic service, plus a free month of a premium channel they weren't already receiving (the latter is a tactic that used to be called sales promotion). In Washington chief Disney lobbyist Preston Padden was serving up unctuousness by the ladle. After the FCC officially scolded Time Warner in midweek, Padden intoned, "We are incredibly grateful to the people at the FCC, who were placed...