Viacom pulled it's cable type channels like MTV, comedy central, VH1 etc from DirecTV. Same issue, wanted 1 billion more in fees.

While I prefer Channel 12 news and GMA, I will view a different station for now through Time Warner. Who knows, maybe I will enjoy one of the other channels better and not return to Channel 12.

Thanks for the information Heather. You would think with all the money I pay per month to Time Warner that they would have called to inform me of this. They call all the time when the box needs overnight updating. Poor customer relations.

I am really re-thinking the $75+/month I'm paying for ATT U-Verse. Can't speak for anyone else, but the time I have to just sit in front of the TV these days has dwindled. Days go by that I don't even turn on the set.

Sounds like the cable bill is going to go up again.

Considering that I can read the news online, and watch the majority of my favorite shows on Hulu, I'm starting to wonder if forking out $100+ a month to Time Warner is worth it.

It's 2012--who even has cable anymore?

Robert B.
I might get use to watching CBS or NBC.

Here in Racine County we can still watch ABC on TWC because we get the Chicago stations in addition to the Milwaukee channels. So ... Ch. 7 was fine for me to watch GMA, but it was more than annoying to not get our more local news when the national show breaks for the local.

Awesome. Almost time for me dump all cable and get Aerero. http://bit.ly/MqoWro

Time Warner is only going to make this easier for me to do with another price hike.

With all the revenue Channel 12 made with the recall elections and the incessant ads, why would they have to demand more money from TWC. In the end it trickles to the consumer, even if the 300% isn't true and it's a 75% increase. Channel 12 (Hearst Communications ) is responsible for a jack up in our cable costs.
Channel 12 can portray themselves as backing our community, but they are the ones directly gouging us.

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, how the heck am I gonna watch Shark Tank?

Get Netflix, $7.99/month unlimited streaming. For local coverage get an antennae. Hook up a computer to your tv with your dsl service and watch all kinds of cable programming at no additional cost.

Both TWC and WISN are going to be hurt by this. Hulu here I come!

Get an antenna/rabbit ears. Cheaper, actually better HD quality technically, simpler choices. Who needs 345 channels of crap. Sitting there all the time watching the boob destroys your health.

Who has time for television?

only hundreds of millions of Americans Paui

Yes, it's time for a massive dump of cable TV. All they've done over the past 20+ years is gouge thousands of dollars from each of us, provided crappy technology, obsolete features, and horrible tech support. Buy a $10 antenna like I did, add a TiVo for $15/mo if you want a GREAT DVR, then add NetFlix and Hulu. Went from $100+ to $30 per month... and no more outages and dropped channels like this!

Cable tv is a sinking ship.. Once internet tvs take hold and HULU sites provide u all the programing you ever want. I just got rabbit ears now as that is all I need .I get my news online and the trend is against cable as a tv content provider. Thats why they fighting for phone , internet and multiple packages etc.............The tv part NEGOTIATIONS is them trying to control costs but in the end people will realize they dont need cable tv at all . It will be a slow cable death but it is coming more rapidly than people think . The technology is coming and will take hold that makes cable tv a thing of the past. Satilite dishes have driven the 1st nail in the coffin. They are squeezing the margins and when full internet takes hold Time Warner better figure away to get on board to the new revenue streams. The old way of doing business will fade away.

Isn’t this a breach of contract to the customers? When I signed up for Time Warner, I was told I would get my ABC affiliate. Now mid-contract, I am losing what I signed up for. Shouldn’t I be able to cancel my Time Warner without penalty since they are not keeping their end of the deal?

I'm sure my cable bill will be reduced with the loss of this channel...right.

Since Time Warner Cable has been my cable company they have systematically removed several of my favorite channels without notification. I have expanded basic cable. I have lost WBZ channel 4, the oxygen channel, CMT, Court Tv , Cspan channel 18, and now no ABC TV which has some of my favorite shows. TWC has not replaced the deleted channels with any other programming, nor have they reduced the monthly fees. So far they have replaced channel 8 (ABC) with the Hallmark channel-big deal-I already get that channel on my plan. This morning they took both channels 8 and 99ABC) off theur listings on the TV Guide channel. This shows me they have no interest in negotiating to re-air ABC. Guess its time to find another company to get cable from.

I hope the matter between TWC and Hearst can be resolver soon I want my ABC shows back.

This is a constant battle between content providers and content deliverers. Blame ESPN, as they were the first content provider to charge carriage fees. ESPN, would buy rights to air games, and then charge cable companies a carriage fee to carry the game. If they didn't, irate sports fans would call up the cable operator, and demand they put the game on. Soon, all providers started to charge this fee. Unfortunately, when the cost of cable goes up, customers don't blame ABC/ESPN/Viacom, or any of the other providers, they blame the carrier, who is held hostage by the provider of content. If TWC stands up, and says this price is ridiculous, we won't pay it...they lose the carriage rights. I'm no fan of cable companies, but in the regard, they are in a lose/lose situation.

It seems like no matter which service you're with, you get screwed sooner or later. If it was ratings week, you can bet the channel wouldn't have been lost. It's the service, Time Warner, At&T uverse or whatever who is at fault. Hallmark was taken away from our AT& T service over a year ago and never got it back. They all give a good price to get you as a customer, but after the 6 mos or 1 year is up so does your cost.

Do I get a reduction in my bill because my son can't watch wipe out, and I can't watch the Bachelor? This is really silly, and to be truthful if you hadn't changed the way we receive television signals, would be a mute point,, I am 2 steps away from Direct TV.

Okay once again, the answer isn't to drop cable and start dumping money into satellite. If your TV has more than 1 input and is HD, just go to Walmart or Menards and buy a $10-30 hd antenna. Watch channel 12 over the air and you'll kick yourself because the picture will probably be much better than you had from cable! I did that for a week and decided that everything I watched was through the antenna and free. That's when I dropped it completely. Free at last, Free at last!!!

I also have my computer on cable with TW...don't know what my solution would be. Can't ask my "know it all" son as we don't communicate well.

ABC greedy greedy. Are you kidding me I just now in Washington state are feeling their 300% hike and they are off our Cable provider. Makes me soooooooooo mad I will not even consider buying a Disney product of any sort as I believe from what I was reading across the net they are all one company. Greedy is all I can say.