Time Warner Cable provides for arbitration with the Fox
LOS ANGELES - Bart Simpson and the Sugar Bowl game are among the possible victims of a bitter dispute over the fees that the owner of the Fox network is required cable systems to Time Warner in New York, Los Angeles and other markets. When we had the deadline of Thursday midnight approach, however, Time Warner Cable, an olive branch that could leave the Fox network and some of its channels of cable TV programs to millions of subscribers offered - for the moment. Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said on Wednesday, the cable operators will agree to binding arbitration, and all appropriate provisional measures to preserve the Fox channels, while continuing negotiations. "Consumers should not be taken as a hostage during these negotiations. This is simply wrong," Britt said in an interview Wednesday. Britt is such a provision in a letter to Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., On both sides pleaded on TV without interruption for the fans of football in the entire college bowl season. A copy of Britt's letter was sent to News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey. Fox has said it will respond to the offer, later on Wednesday. If no agreement is reached, programs that are likely to disappear from Time Warner Cable Inc. lineup include "The Simpsons" and a number of football matches, including sugar, on Friday, have the Cotton Bowl on Saturday and the finals of the NFL regular season Sunday. Bright House Networks cable systems' TV also through Thursday with the owner of Fox, News Corp. in Florida, have two viewers a complaint filed Monday against News Corp., with an injunction to make the Fox broadcast of the Florida-Cincinnati Sugar Bowl contest remains On the Bright House cable system. "Circuit Judge Maura Smith in Orlando, did not immediately rule is to say, first allowing a federal judge to decide whether the federal court was the proper place for the species. Fox argued that it is better for broadcast signals, to the subscribers of Time Warner Cable and Bright House. Time Warner Cable's broadcast upfront, said the fee applies to be high. The dispute concerns the signals of the 14 Fox stations in markets like Los Angeles, New York, Dallas Fort Worth and Austin, Texas and Tampa Bay-St. Petersburg and Orlando, Florida, Fox stations with programming, but owned by other companies are not affected. In addition to the Fox broadcast network, six cable channels - FX, Speed, Fuel, Fox Reality, Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports en Español - and several regional sports networks, including in the negotiations. does not affect Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, National Geographic Channel, which belongs to the part of News Corp.