CBS, TW Cable extend carriage deal

January 06, 2009 Time Warner Cable and CBS Corp. unveiled a broad carriage agreement Tuesday that extends a retransmission-consent pact for CBS' TV stations and carriage of Showtime Networks' programming through 2013. Financial details of the deal weren't disclosed, but both sides claimed that they will benefit in what some spokespeople called a win-win. It's widely believed CBS was looking for as much as 50 cents per subscriber per month in retrans negotiations for the right to carry CBS stations, even though Moonves last year said that figure wasn't set in stone, with terms varying by size of the distributor and breadth of the arrangement.

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