Report: NFL finally reaches deal with Time Warner Cable
Posted by Darin Gantt on September 21, 2012, 11:06 AM EDT
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The NFL has apparently reached a deal to end a longer-running impasse than the one with its officials.
According to Scott Soshnick of Bloomberg, the league has reached an agreement with Time Warner Cable to carry the NFL Network and Red Zone Channel.
Time Warner has about 12 million subscribers, and was the last major cable carrier without a deal with the NFL.
The league was careful to point out the lack of Time Warner’s presence when it signed a deal with Cablevision, noting it was the only one of the top nine carriers without the channel.
It’s a huge get for fans in New York City, as well as smaller markets such as Charlotte which were locked in with TWC. Of course, at least one customer in Charlotte (Gruden thumbs, this guy) got tired of waiting and switched.
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