Viacom, release our channels!

[Gamerkd16]

Anyone else hear about this? Viacom is taking their channels off the air at midnight tonight until they strike a deal with Time Warner. This affecting anyone else?


The channels that would be affected are: Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, 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.

News Link (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/30/time-warner-cable-cuts-of_n_154378.html)

[Ki11a_FTW]

yeah when i was watching nick last night, this message came up on the bottom of the screens saying that Time Warner Cable customers are going to be losing this channel tonight.
But i dont use that service :)

[ultama121]

Oh yeah... I saw this yesterday but couldn't be arsed to read it. Lol, oh well, I don't watch much TV anyway.

[Gamerkd16]

I watch MTV for the "reality" dating shows and Pimp my Ride, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon maybe from time to time if I'm really bored, and Spike which is good for MXC. :p

[teh lag]

Country music television!? Music television!? NICKELODEON!?

HOW CAN WE STAND BY AND LET THESE FINE CHANNELS GO AWAY FOR A NIGHT!? THIS IS A TERRIBLE LOSS!





Though comedy central is actually ok.

[Sever]

I lawl at your tv-watchery.

[thehoodedsmack]

This stupid message was going all throughout the CSI marathon today! >:U Not a TWC customer, though, so I'm not sure if it effects me or not...

[StankBacon]

i wish they would do this for my cable company, i fucking hate all of those channels.

[TeeKup]

Viacom sucks anyway.

[LlamaMaster]

The only one I really care about is comedy central. I'll be seriously pissed if they take that away from me.

[klange]

They're... they're taking away Comedy Central?

Kill them with fire.

[Needles]

Sucks ass for Time Warner cable company customers. At least I still get to see those new 2009 episodes of the Colbert Report on dish network :p!

[Needles]

i wish they would do this for my cable company, i fucking hate all of those channels.
Comedy central is awesome, and so is spike. CMT is decent, all I ever watched it for was for hulk hogan's celebrity wrestling (mostly for that one ep with goldberg as a special appearance)

[CabooseJr]

I stopped watching TV ever since Toonami was canceled.

[Needles]

I stopped watching TV ever since Toonami was canceled.
Toonami was horrible anyways. Not in to all that anime stuff.

[Dwood]

i wish they would do this for my cable company, i hate all of those channels.

I hate that they're always on in my house. Too bad they aren't taking down Disney too :(

@ Caboose. I miss the old Toonami before Naruto and during the early dbz/gundam days *sigh*

[Gamerkd16]

Threw together a related comic:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8255/viacomeh8.jpg

lol

[Needles]

Threw together a related comic:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8255/viacomeh8.jpg

lol
But aren't spike and comedy central pretty huge networks that a lot of people care about? All I watch on TV is discovery channel, G4, comedy central, and spike. My two biggest ones are spike and comedy central.

And I'm pretty sure a lot of people love nick too (thought personally, I don't).

[Xetsuei]

Fresh Price of Bel Air, Family Matters, and George Lopez are all awesome shows that Nick (well, Nick at Nite) has.

[Ki11a_FTW]

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[Disaster]

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[Gamerkd16]

My channels are still here? Maybe they should have been more specific on timezone and AM/PM.

[kenney001]

FIOS ftw

[Boba]

vh1 classic is the best channel known to man :(

[n00b1n8R]

Angry about being ripped off.

Pays for his television.

:downs:

[Heathen]

Every one of those channels SUCK a lot and I personally would pay for them to stay off.

[LlamaMaster]

Every one of those channels SUCK a lot and I personally would pay for them to stay off.
Whats wrong with comedy central?

[Gamerkd16]

Time Warner gave in... (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/business/media/02viacom.html?ref=business)

[Heathen]

WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK? MY COMEDY CENTRAL?

Goddamn.

[klange]

FIOS ftw
FIOS blocks port 80, as well as a ton of other stuff. Have fun running a web server or any of those other fun things I get to do with my Roadrunner.


Also, yeah, it seems all the deals made it through before midnight, as I came home at 1:40 from my neighbor's house (they have AT&T U-Verse, they don't use the Internet, so it's fine for them), and everything was up.