[opendtv] News: WealthTV Files Carriage Complaint Against Time Warner
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- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:52:35 -0500
Another "minority" network that is struggling to get on cable...
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6514912.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP&nid=2228
WealthTV Files Carriage Complaint Against Time Warner
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WealthTV CEO says Time Warner "stole" idea for HD lifestyle network,
calls MOJO "inferior knock-off"
By Jon Hemingway -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/21/2007 1:32:00 PM
Time Warner Cable is not spreading the wealth, according to a
complaint filed with the Federal Communications Commission.
WealthTV, an independent lifestyle and entertainment network that
caters to the affluent, 25-49 year-old male audience, filed the
complaint against the nation's second largest operator alleging the
company is playing favorites by denying WealthTV carriage while
accepting the MOJO network. The latter, WealthTV points out, is a
network with similar programming that targets the same audience
demographic and also happens to be part owned by Time Warner Cable.
MOJO, an HD-only channel, is part of iN DEMAND Networks, which counts
Comcast, Cox and the Time Warner Entertainment - Advance/Newhouse
partnership as shareholders.
"[Time Warner Cable] jawboned us while they studied our channel so
they could copy it," WealthTV CEO Robert Herring, Sr. said in a
statement, "Once they saw its success, they stole our idea and
created an inferior knock-off, MOJO, and launched that instead of
WealthTV. It's more lucrative for them to carry their own channel
than to give us a fair chance to reach the public."
WealthTV, which is also a high-definition network, has carriage on
Verizon's FiOS, AT&T's U-verse and Charter Communications among other
smaller operators. WealthTV is carried in HD on-demand on Time Warner
Cable's San Antonio system.
"We'd rather work with TWC than bring this complaint, but they've
left us no choice," WealthTV President Charles Herring said in a
statement. "We hope to get this resolved swiftly so that both we and
TWC can turn back to what both companies want to do - namely bring TV
viewers great shows that entertain and educate in high definition."
Time Warner had no comment at press time.
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