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"CBS-owned broadcast stations in New York City, Los Angeles, and several other cities have been dropped by Time Warner Cable. A dispute over retransmission fees - payments made by Time Warner Cable to carry the signals of CBS-owned broadcast TV stations on its cable systems - was not resolved in time to meet a Friday evening deadline. In addition to the CBS blackout affecting CBS-owned stations in major markets, all 11 million TWC subscribers have lost access to CBS On Demand and CBS-owned premium cable networks Showtime, TMC, Flix and Smithsonian. In a statement, Time Warner Cable said: &amp;quot;We agreed to an extension on Tuesday morning with the expectation that we would engage in a meaningful negotiation with CBS. Since then, CBS has refused to have a productive discussion. It&amp;#039;s become clear that no matter how much time we give them, they&amp;#039;re not willing to come to reasonable terms. We thank our customers for their patience and support as we continue to fight hard to keep their prices down.&amp;quot; CBS said it was TWC&amp;#039;s decision to drop its channels, adding: &amp;quot;We deeply regret this ill-advised action, which is injurious not only to our many affected viewers, but also to Time Warner Cable itself. Throughout this process, Time Warner Cable has conducted negotiations in a combative and non-productive spirit, indulging in pointless brinksmanship and distorted public positioning \u2014 such as the fictional and ridiculous 600% increase CBS supposedly demanded \u2014 while maintaining antiquated positions no longer held by any other programming distributor in the business.&amp;quot; Cities and Stations Affected  New York: WCBS Los Angeles: KCBS and KCAL Desert Cities, Yuma and El Centro, CA: KCAL Dallas-Ft Worth: KTVT and KTXA Boston: WBZ and WSBK Pittsburgh: KDKA and WPCW Chicago: WBBM Detroit: WKBD Denver: KCNC  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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