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Broadcast stations like NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox have traditionally been licensed to cable providers for free. feature a new issue: Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate wants to charge the cable company a fee for airing its broadcast station, Fox. This year's negotiations between Time Warner Cable and News Corp. Time Warner Cable is arguing that the fees the networks want to charge it to renew the contracts are too high, while the networks say they have to raise their fees to cover escalating costs. Cable providers usually negotiate multi-year contracts with the networks.
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Like all cable companies, Time Warner Cable pays fees to networks to air their content on cable subscribers' televisions. The nation's second largest cable provider is at odds with Fox's parent company, News Corp., as well as the Weather Channel and Scripps Networks whose content licensing contracts with Time Warner Cable will expire at the end of the year. "Oh, well.who cares what congress does, right? Time warner might not have fox programming anymore!!!!" said one Twitter user whose focus quickly switched from Thursday's health care vote.