{"entry":{"title":"Stopping the Next TV Blackout","date":"Sat, 08 Mar 2014 05:00:00 +0000","author":"Brian Fung, Washington Post","description":"
Remember the Great CBS Blackout of 2013? The one where Time Warner Cable and CBS couldn't come to an agreement on content fees and CBS pulled its programming for a month? Hundreds of thousands of Time Warner Cable subscribers abandoned the company before it was over. It was a painful month. For a while, it looked more like a war of attrition between two of the country's biggest media titans than what it really was: a simple disagreement over content fees.<\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/03\/07\/last-years-cbs-blackout-was-terrible-for-everyone-heres-one-idea-to-fix-it\/"}}