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Originally Posted by glatt

wtf? NBC sends that signal out for free to anyone with an antenna. Why exactly should Time Warner pay one cent to the local affiliate for doing the service of passing it along?

KXAN (NBC) says that Time Warner has to pay all their cable channel providers for their signals, and they should start paying the networks too, and just pass the costs on to us like they do for the other channels. Time Warner isn't caving because the minute they do, all the other networks will follow suit. I don't know if DirecTV is paying them or what, but in the weeks leading up to the cutoff, the ads kept saying again and again that we should switch if we want to keep getting our signal.