Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and others may go off air on Time Warner Cable.

December 30, 2008 – 10:53 pm – No Comment

If you have Time Warner Cable and enjoy Viacom programming like Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, you may be out of luck. An agreement has to be made by 12:01am January 1, 2009 (so right after the ball drops) to keep the channels on the air on Time Warner.

The problem is that Viacom is asking for a fee increase of 22 to 36 percent per channel, that would increase the customer’s bill and Time Warner doesn’t necessarily want to have to charge their customers the extra.

Viacom said the increases would cost an extra 23 cents a month per subscriber — which works out to $35.9 million more in total. It said that Americans spend a fifth of their TV time watching Viacom shows but its fees make up less than 2.5 percent of the Time Warner cable bill. – AP

The channels included in the dispute are:Comedy Central, CMT, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Soul.

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