Time Warner Cable subscribers in markets blacked out...
Time Warner Cable subscribers in markets blacked out from watching CBS channels in the cable operator’s retransmission dispute with the network can pick up free indoor TV antennas at TWC retail stores “while supplies last,” TWC said in a blog…
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post Friday. The one-antenna-per-household offer is available to TWC subscribers in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wis., New York and southern California, it said. Subscribers also can visit TWC retail stores for a $20 voucher redeemable toward buying an “in-stock” indoor antenna at Best Buy stores in those markets, TWC said. The advisory lists 89 Best Buy stores in those markets that will accept the vouchers, including 43 Best Buy outlets with TWC store-within-a-store locations. Best Buy representatives didn’t immediately say whether TWC’s offer has caused an increase in demand at the Best Buy stores affected and whether supplies are sufficient at those stores to meet any surge in demand. Nor did TWC representatives comment on the response to the offer at TWC retail stores. “All blacked-out broadcast stations remain available over the air, and most households can receive the signals if they have the right equipment,” including an antenna and a TV set with a digital tuner or a DTV converter box purchased during the government’s coupon subsidy program, TWC said. TWC cautions that it’s “not responsible for the installation or performance of any antennas,” and advises customers to visit the FCC’s website to be sure their homes can receive “a good enough quality signal to make an antenna worthwhile.”