GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Cable subscribers in eastern Wisconsin will pay a special monthly fee for sports programming for the first time.
Time Warner Cable said Monday it will start charging $2.75 a month to help cover the higher costs of carrying sports — and 50 cents more to cover the carrying charges from local over the air stations.
Time Warner spokesman Michael Hogan said his company has paid 91 percent more to pass on sports programming since 2008, and 60 percent more to pass on local broadcast stations over the past two years.
He called both those increases “exorbitant,” and the surcharges would only cover a fraction of what Time Warner’s actually paying.
Hogan said sports and local channels are the “biggest drivers” of higher TV rates.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
