Welcome to the (mostly) free market. If you don’t like Time Warner’s decision, walk, and get service through someone foolish enough to knuckle under to the BTN. You’re a paying customer, and you have that right. Time Warner has every right to risk their bottom line, and their profitability, by fighting this battle with the BTN as long as they like. All they owe you is the service and channels for which you signed an agreement - nothing more - and the BTN was not in that agreement.

I’m a distributist, not a supply-sider. :) Nice try, though.

Poe wrote:
“I have Time Warner in Cleveland and will be dropping it for satellite if they don’t have BTN by August 30th.”

Precisely my point. If a sufficient number of Time Warner’s customers feel as you do, Time Warner will bend to market pressure and make a deal. Whether for good or ill, Time Warner is doing just fine without bending over and taking it from the BTN.

I have no problem with anyone who’s upset with Time Warner for not carrying the BTN; you’re a customer, and you have the right to take your money and walk, and make your sentiments known. I do, though, have a problem with the notion that Time Warner is at fault because 60% of Ohioans can’t watch four Ohio State games a year.

This problem did not exist before the BTN, but it exists now.

You are weird guy.

I have Time Warner in Cleveland and will be dropping it for satellite if they don’t have BTN by August 30th.

No company is under any obligation, to anyone, to use their profits for any purpose other than to generate future profits, and return an investment to their shareholders. Companies exist purely to make money, and the BTN is a bad financial deal.

The dirty little secret here is that Time Warner isn’t suffering from this at all. The response from Ohio State fans has been rather muted. The smaller networks jumped on the BTN’s bad deal in hopes it would hurt Time Warner, but it hasn’t. Time Warner’s market share remains intact - it’s increased, actually - and no villagers are standing outside the palace gates with pitchforks.

“Every Ohio State football game needs to be seen in Columbus, I don’t care who is to blame.”

On that, we are agreed. Sadly, all the games were seen in Columbus, prior to the advent of the BTN.

Every Ohio State football game needs to be seen in Columbus, I don’t care who is to blame.

And as for me, I’m waiting for Bright House in metro Detroit to jump on board. I would join Comcast, but BH is the only cable provider for my area, even though I can drive 5 minutes down the road and people have Comcast. It’s ridiculous.

Bull! I had to revert to pay-per-view for the low level and regional games. Now I can get them free on BTN. The basketball coverage is huge too. No more paying for ESPN Full-Court. I get it all on Network, ESPN, and BTN.

I don’t understand the rub against the BTN. If anyone looks down the road ten years you will see that the BTN was a fabulous idea that the SEC, Pac-10, Big XII, Big East, and ACC are sure to follow. We’ve got the jump on the rest of all of college sports!

Being the first has come with many growing pains, but if this is such a bad idea why are the SEC and Big 12 already pushing hard for their networks?

In the end the positives will far outweigh the negatives. I love watching pregame and postgame shows dedcated to the Big Ten rather than the few seconds each team gets on ESPN. I expect the quality to get better over time just like any other start-up network. I just like knowing that I can see any Big Ten game I want, in HD no less.

You applaud Time Warner for depriving the fans of Buckeye Football? Unbelieveable…