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In Fox-Time Warner Cable Blackout, Will Hulu Keep the Lights On? This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Compared to NFL playoffs, online video is about as important as Pop Warner in the Fox-Time Warner Cable retransmission face-off. But its status in the blackout is indicative of the challenges to TV Everywhere's future.

Fox Broadcasting (NWS) and Time Warner Cable (TWC) have been getting into the holiday spirit lately by stepping up their brinkmanship over retransmission fees, each threatening to sideline New Years Day Bowl-game viewers if a deal isn’t reached by Dec. 31 while trying to pin the blame on the other. Earlier this month, Time Warner Cable launched a preemptive PR strike, setting up a web site aimed at stoking subscriber anger at greedy programmers by warning [...]

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