Mediagazer: Time Warner Left Bruised in Fee Battle With CBS (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

9:50 AM ET, November 1, 2013

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Time Warner Left Bruised in Fee Battle With CBS — Time Warner Cable on Thursday reported the steepest quarterly loss of television subscribers in its history, which it attributed at least in part to the monthlong battle it had with the CBS Corporation in August. — The CBS blackout ended in early September.

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