No CBS (sigh)? How can a cable company NOT have at least the major networks in HD? I have Charter in Connecticut and we're still waiting for ABC and CW (we do get CBS). My understand is that it has to do with the fact that ABC wants Charter to pay extra for the HD version while the other networks provide the HD feed for free (true?). Is this just a Charter problem or do lots of other cable providers skimp on networks? I'd rather have ABC than Mojo... or whatever other nitch crap they're adding next.
Same problem with CBS in St. Louis. CBS wants Charter to pay, and Charter doesn't want to pass the cost on to their customers. I think I'm on Charter's side. The CBS signal is free OTA, why should Charter have to pay to redistribute it. I think it hurts CBS more than Charter.
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kmarsh_2001 @ Jan 28th 2008 1:00PM
No CBS (sigh)? How can a cable company NOT have at least the major networks in HD? I have Charter in Connecticut and we're still waiting for ABC and CW (we do get CBS). My understand is that it has to do with the fact that ABC wants Charter to pay extra for the HD version while the other networks provide the HD feed for free (true?). Is this just a Charter problem or do lots of other cable providers skimp on networks? I'd rather have ABC than Mojo... or whatever other nitch crap they're adding next.
Jeremy Childress @ Jan 28th 2008 1:23PM
Same problem with CBS in St. Louis. CBS wants Charter to pay, and Charter doesn't want to pass the cost on to their customers. I think I'm on Charter's side. The CBS signal is free OTA, why should Charter have to pay to redistribute it. I think it hurts CBS more than Charter.