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Originally Posted by Denebius
I would REALLY like to see HDNET Fight's response to this. I would be shocked if this isn't exactly what happened and HDNet is trying to make themselves look like the innocent victims. HDNet Fights, can you reply to this, please?
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Sure - thats just simple math. Of course TWC is going to pay us more - thats growing our business. If you don't want us to do that, then you can't expect our programming offerings to grow.
We slaughtered every other network on our tier, as far as ratings are concerned. In fact, we beat a lot of HD networks in digital basic (who had as much as 15 million more potential viewers than we did). Ratings showed that people watched HDNet, largely thanks to the MMA community. TWC wanted to keep us on a tier that paired us with bad products, and we wanted to be available to more people (and cheaper to the consumer). Therefore, an agreement hasn't been reached.
We want to grow our business so we can bring you more live MMA than we already do. It costs a whole lot more to show an MMA live event than a taped one. You guys ask for live events, so we deliver them. In order to keep delivering them and be able to give you more, we need to grow as a business. If you don't agree with that, I don't know what to tell you.
We slaughtered every other network on our tier, as far as ratings are concerned. In fact, we beat a lot of HD networks in digital basic (who had as much as 15 million more potential viewers than we did). Ratings showed that people watched HDNet, largely thanks to the MMA community. TWC wanted to keep us on a tier that paired us with bad products, and we wanted to be available to more people (and cheaper to the consumer). Therefore, an agreement hasn't been reached. We aren't victims, we just disagree with TWC on the value of our product. If you think we are a valuable product, let TWC know, and that will speed up the process.