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Old 07-05-2004, 01:27 PM   #25 (permalink)
Bill Davidson
 
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Re: OLN on West Coast Complaint

S o r n i wrote:
> OK, so here's the deal: AFAIK, OLN's Tour de France programming starts each
> day at 8:00 or 8:30 AM Eastern with a half-hour pre-race show and then live
> coverage. This, of course, is 5 or 5:30 AM Pacific.
>
> Here in San Diego, however, Time Warner show friggin' INFOMERCIALS until
> *7:00 AM* local time -- flipping a switch or something to suddenly carry OLN
> in the middle of each day's stage.


I'm glad I live in Cox cable territory then. They haven't done
this to the tour (at least not so far). Actually, Cox cable
covers most of San Diego county and I think a majority of the
city. I don't miss Time Warner.

> I've just written both OLN and Time Warner (separately), but wanted to share
> my rantage with you good people.


You could also call their customer service and yell at them.
Maybe you could get other customers to do the same. If enough
people do, they'll fix it.

--Bill Davidson
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