Time Warner Cable has dropped CBS network in New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles and a handful of other large cities after failing to come to a contractual agreement by Friday evening.
USA Today reports that in addition to dropping CBS, cities will see a blackout of Showtime, TMC, FLIX and Smithsonian, which are owned by CBS.
CBS released a statement following the news saying, “We deeply regret this ill-advised action, which is injurious not only to our many affected viewers, but also to Time Warner Cable itself."
TWC released their own statement saying, "CBS has refused to have a productive discussion. It's become clear that no matter how much time we give them, they're not willing to come to reasonable terms.”
CBS is asked to raise its fees to allow the network to continue to air on TWC which the company has seen as outrageous.
According to Reuters, CBS retaliated by suspending all video usage by any user with Internet access from Time Warner Cable. However, this affected DirecTV users as well.
"DirecTV has certainly had its share of these battles, so we applaud Time Warner Cable for fighting back against exorbitant programming cost increases," DirecTV said in a statement.
"We are also appalled to learn that CBS is now punishing DIRECTV customers, who may happen to have Time Warner as their Internet provider, by denying them access to CBS content online."