Time Warner NYC cuts Latino service pricing.

Multichannel News, October, 2003 by Gibbson, Kent

NEW YORK -- Time Warner Cable's New York City system last week planned to introduce a new combination of broadcast basic and the DTV en Espanol service aimed at Spanish-speaking TV viewers and priced at $27.95 per month--$22 less than the typical offering, which includes expanded-basic channels.

Bob Watson, vice president of programming and new business development at the system, said the new offer (for new customers only) was scheduled to break in local ads last Wednesday. "We did a lot of cream-skimming at $49.95" since the Latino service launched in January, Watson said here last Tuesday at the Hispanic Television Summit, sponsored by Multichannel News and Broadcasting & Cable. But research indicates a need to offer a product for around $30, he...

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