After receiving serious complains from their three biggest media companies; Viacom, Discovery Communications and News Corp., the cable operator Time Warner has temporarily terminated few channels from its iPad app. Time Warner has been streaming several of its cable programming to its paid subscribers on their iPad app as a convenience. But apparently, the media companies are not satisfied with seeing their content on iPad, to the same customers in addition to conventional TV’s, without profiting more money out of the cable operator.
Screenshot of Time Warner iPad App |
Time Warner has implied straight forwardly, that according to them, they have “every right to carry the programming on our iPad app," as quoted in the report published by New York Times. Later today, the cable operator representative gave a statement: "But, for the time being, we have decided to focus our iPad efforts on those enlightened programmers who understand the benefit and importance of allowing our subscribers — and their viewers — to watch their programming on any screen in their homes. In the meantime, we will pursue all of our legal rights against the programmers who don’t share our vision.”