CBS and Time Warner Cable

In my viewing area all CBS programs are blocked out by Time Warner Cable. It's a fee disagreement between the two mega-giant companies. One company produces programs and the other carries the programs on cable. Each of them wants to make more money off the other. There are valid arguments from both sides.

Years ago cable was the novelty. Not too many people had it because the cable companies had not yet wired very many homes. Broadcast television was the all. It was a signal sent over the public airwaves and we could receive it with an antenna and television set.

That's still partly true today; accept now it's a digital signal, not an analogue one. The quality of the picture is much better. Most viewers, however, choose to receive their television signals from cable rather than over the airwaves.

I am disappointed in both companies. Yes, I can call and complain to both, but it really doesn't do any good, nor does it bring the conflicting parties together.

They each have a responsibility to their viewers and they are ignoring that duty and playing their audiences with inflated statistics and an emotional play of what viewers are missing.

If you look at the bottom line of both companies, it seems to me they are both making enough money in these economic challenging times that the denial of services leverages out to greed on both sides and the only looser is the viewer.