Time Warner Cable was the 1st party to blink within the battle with programmers over its new live TV streaming TWCable TV iPad app , removing channels from Viacom, Fox and Discovery. The corporate’s official statement indicates its merely choosing to highlight the “enlightened programmers” who support its cause and that it’ll provide replacement channels (maybe BBC America, because it’s in all of the screenshots) ASAP, possibly once tomorrow. Expect the legal fight to continue to heat up between Time Warner, which believes it has obtained each of the rights essential to provide these channels on any screen in a customer’s home, and the programmers, that think it hasn’t.
Throwing more gasoline at the fire is word from Cablevision that its new iPad app with TV and video on-demand access was speculated to be out already and is merely waiting Apple’s approval before it launches. In accordance with the Wall Street Journal it is going to go forward launching the Optimum Link — formerly PC to TV Media Relay — product that brings video from their PC to the television tomorrow. Have a look at the list of pulled channels after the break or on Time Warner’s blog, we’ll tell you when or if anything changes.
Channels removed:
Animal Planet
BET
CMT
Comedy Central
Discovery Channel
FX
MTV
National Geographic
Nickelodeon
Spike
VH1
Statement from Cablevision:
“Now we have launched our Optimum App for iPad on Cablevision’s campus and in approximately 100 employee homes and it really works wonderfully. The appliance has been submitted to Apple and, upon its approval, can be available to our cable television customers.”
LG’s upcoming MWC lineup runs into some Italians, gets documented on video
Everything Everywhere promises ‘small-scale LTE launch’ in UK by the top of 2012
