DIRECT Satellite

Sinclair has entered into a multi-year agreement with Time Warner Cable for the carriage of 28 of the television stations Sinclair owns and/or operates in 17 markets.
The television stations and markets are:

• WLFL & WRDC (Raleigh, NC)
• WCGV & WVTV (Milwaukee, WI)
• KABB & KMYS (San Antonio, TX)

WSYX & WTTE (Columbus, OH), WSTR (Cincinnati, OH), WUTV & WNYO (Buffalo, NY), WSYT & WNYS (Syracuse, NY), WXLV & WMYV (Greensboro, NC), WRGT & WKEF (Dayton, OH), WGME (Portland, ME), WUHF (Rochester, NY), WDKY (Lexington, KY), WCHS & WVAH (Charleston, WV), WTAT & WMMP (Charleston, SC), WTVZ (Norfolk, VA), WPGH & WPMY (Pittsburgh, PA), and KBSI (Cape Girardeau, MO).

TWC will produce a 6:30am, 6:00pm and 11:00pm  half-hour local news program, Monday through Friday, on Sinclair’s ABC affiliate, WXLV-TV, in Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC beginning January 2012.

Time Warner Cable has partnered with Cablevision to deliver high-speed wireless Internet connection at in the New York City area. This partnership will benifit one million local Road Runner Time Warner Cable residential customers.

Subscribers will have unlimited access to a fast and free wireless Internet connection at several locations in the NYC area. Time Warner Cable Wi-Fi is now available at several Wi-Fi zones in Manhattan and Queens, including several parks and some Long Island Railroad platforms and their respective parking lots in the company’s service area.

Time Warner Cable and Cablevision subscribers in the New York City area will have access to free, unlimited Wi-Fi services allowing for a fast Internet connection at designated Wi-Fi zones.

Time Warner Cable Road Runner customers will have access to Cablevision’s Optimum WiFi network, and Cablevision’s Optimum Online customers will have access to Time Warner Cable Wi-Fi zones when they travel out of their service area. Time Warner Cable’s New York City service area includes Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, western Brooklyn, Mt. Vernon, parts of the Hudson Valley region, and Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey. Cablevision’s coverage area includes Long Island, parts of New Jersey and Connecticut, Westchester, Rockland, Northern Hudson Valley, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.

Howard Szarfarc, Executive Vice President of the company’s New York City Region, said “Our sophisticated network is a combination of wireless and wireline services, bringing a wide spectrum of products and services to our customers. This free new Wi-Fi option adds another dimension for Road Runner customers, bringing even more convenience. Road Runner customers can experience a fast, simple and easy connection from their laptops or portable Wi-Fi-enabled devices in Time Warner Cable Wi-Fi zones, meeting their growing need for mobility.”

MexicoTV is the only network to bring Mexico’s Liga de Ascenso to the Mexican soccer audiences in the U.S. Mexico TV is available on DirecTV Mas programming package and also on Comcast, Time Warner Cable.

Necaxa is the team with a reputation in Mexico, fighting for a comeback longed for by its many thousands of fans, but also the teams blocking its way who are also determined to get there first, at all cost, come what may.

Like Veracruz, in years past the First Division pace-setter, famed for the passion and loyalty of its fans, which has hired a player who is now without question Mexico’s hottest soccer icon: Cuauhtemoc Blanco. He is hated by a heavy majority of Mexican fandom when he plays for the Club America team, or any other rival – but when he plays for Mexico’s national team, that hate turns into boundless love.

Another team committed to winning is Irapuato, current leader of the 2010 League, tied with Necaxa and separated only by a difference of goals scored. These teams have been battling each other in one of the most exciting finals in the League’s recent history, going to the terminal stage of penalty kicks to decide who will come out the winner.

Necaxa, Veracruz, Irapuato, Leon, Orizaba, Pumas Morelos, Tijuana, Correcaminos, Durango and Atlante UTN are the most popular teams to paly for Mexico’s 2010 Liga de Ascenso.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced that it has struck carriage deals with Cablevision Systems Corp, Dish Network and Time Warner Cable to carry NBA TV.

This agreement will allow operators to carry NBA TV and will reach 45 million United States homes.

The NBA has already struck similar deals with DirecTV, Comcast Corporation, Cox Communications and Verizon Communications earlier this year.

Cablevision will launch NBA TV on iO digital package, Dish Network will offer the sports network on Classic Silver 200 Package and Time Warner Cable to deliver NBA TV on its digital basic tier.

NBA deputy commissioner and COO Adam Silver in a statement, said: “We are pleased to announce that our new agreements with Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, and Dish Network will bring NBA TV to 45 million U.S. homes. NBA TV remains the ultimate basketball destination, and we’re excited to welcome the millions of new fans who will be able to experience the network’s original programming, live games, and Emmy award-winning on-air talent.”

NFL season is about to begin but The NFL Network and Time Warner Cable is yet to settle for a carriage agreement. The NFL Network has released a statement in regard to carriage of the network on Time Warner Cable.

The release stated “We are extremely disappointed that Time Warner is unwilling to reach an agreement to carry the NFL Network on terms that are fair and reasonable and consistent with other distributors. We don’t expect to reach a deal with them anytime soon.”

NFL Network also stated that “We have deals with hundreds of other distributors including four of the five largest distributors. We are surprised that they continue to reject our offers and deny the fans the only network dedicated entirely to football as well as the exciting new NFL RedZone channel that we are launching this season.”

Time Warner Cable has launched four new high-definition channels to reach 100 HD channel mark in New York region. Time Warner has also announced that it has added more than 50 HD channels since January and local news channel, News 10 Now, and its Time Warner Cable Sports network to be launched in high-definition very soon. Following are the new HD channels added:

MSNBC HD

Turner Classic Movies HD and

Headline News HD

The above HD channels are available to digital cable subscribers at no extra cost.

Time Warner cable has announced the launch of three new high-definition channels in Cincinnati. The cable operator has added following HD channels:

WXIX-TV

Chiller and

The MLB Network

Time Warner has added WXIX-TV’s “This TV,” which will bring programming like ‘The Outer Limits,’ ‘Mister Ed,’ ‘Patty Duke’ and ‘Burke’s Law.’

The cable operator has added NBC Universal’s Chiller on Channel 179 and the sports network on Channel 178.

Time Warner Cable has announced that Donna A. James, Edward D. Shirley and former Senator John E. Sununu have been elected to its Board of Directors. Glenn Britt has been assigned the additional position of Chairman and Peter Haje as a Lead Director.

Don Logan will remain on the Board, but will step down as Chairman. Jeff Bewkes, Chairman and CEO of Time Warner Inc., will be leaving the Board. more here

Time Warner Cable has added six new high-definition channels in the Hilton Head Island and Sun City Hilton Head markets. The cable operator has added following HD channels in these markets on Feb.13:

Bravo HD – Channel 856

CNBC HD – Ch.855

Scifi HD – Ch.854

USA HD – Ch.853 and

WSAV HD – Ch.805

Time Warner has added Telemundo on channel 188 in standard definition. WJCL will also be added in HD on Feb.20.

Time Warner Cable has announced the launch of 18 new high-definition channels in North Texas. Time Warner has been adding new HD channels in many cities and this is a part of the expansion. Time Warner has added following HD channels :

ABC Family HD

Versus HD and

Weather Channel HD

These new channels have been added to its HD programming line-up on Dec.17.