Delay of Game: Time Warner Cable-NFL Network Talks Break Down

Despite optimism, carriage fight unresolved

Despite intensive efforts to broker a carriage agreement, talks between NFL Network and Time Warner Cable have ended without a deal. After having called off any future negotiations, it now appears that the two parties will not come to terms before the end of the 2011-12 NFL campaign.

Sources said the Oct. 7 talks between the NFL and the nation’s No. 2 cable operator became so heated that both sides walked out of a Time Warner Cable conference room without scheduling a follow-up meeting.

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