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Are You Going To Sit There And Let Time Warner Cable Take FearNet Away From You??
I am – Hercules!!
Harry Knowles asked that this be passed along:
Hi Harry
My name’s Joe McCabe—I’m the associate editor of FEARnet.com. I’m also a longtime fan of Ain’t It Cool.
You might have heard that Time Warner and Brighthouse just dropped FEARnet On Demand from their cable networks. As a fellow genre film lover, I’m sure you’ll agree that – with Monsters HD going under – we need a decent horror channel on TV. And since we’re planning to unspool a lot of cool flicks on FEARnet in the days ahead – like the unedited ‘Midnight Meat Train’, ‘Phantasm’, ‘Army of Darkness’, and ‘Hostel II’ – we want the fans to be able to see them! Could you please let your users know that if they’d like to see FEARnet On Demand back on Time Warner, they should call 1-877-FEAR-247? We’ll connect them with our cable operator and they can let them know that they want FEARnet. (Please note that for some cable subscribers, FEARnet is available on AT&T U-Verse and Verizon Fios).
Here’s a link to our president’s blog, in which she discusses this situation.
Thank you very much for your consideration and support, Harry!
All the best,
Joe
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My name’s Joe McCabe—I’m the associate editor of FEARnet.com. I’m also a longtime fan of Ain’t It Cool.
You might have heard that Time Warner and Brighthouse just dropped FEARnet On Demand from their cable networks. As a fellow genre film lover, I’m sure you’ll agree that – with Monsters HD going under – we need a decent horror channel on TV. And since we’re planning to unspool a lot of cool flicks on FEARnet in the days ahead – like the unedited ‘Midnight Meat Train’, ‘Phantasm’, ‘Army of Darkness’, and ‘Hostel II’ – we want the fans to be able to see them! Could you please let your users know that if they’d like to see FEARnet On Demand back on Time Warner, they should call 1-877-FEAR-247? We’ll connect them with our cable operator and they can let them know that they want FEARnet. (Please note that for some cable subscribers, FEARnet is available on AT&T U-Verse and Verizon Fios).
Here’s a link to our president’s blog, in which she discusses this situation.
Thank you very much for your consideration and support, Harry!
All the best,
Joe
Also In April?
The New Prequel About The People
Who Thought Cylons Were A Good Idea!!
Season-sets of “Star Trek,” “Twilight Zone,” “The Invaders,” and much more have been hugely reduced in the big DVD sale. You can pick up the extra-packed “Zone” collector’s editions, which used to be $100 each and sold for $67.99 two weeks ago, for Less than $28 each
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Yes, I am going to sit here and let them take FearNet from me.
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Apr 02, 2009 11:18:18 PM CDT
Or, since there's too many fucking worthless channels as it is..
by catvutt
I think I'll do nothing.
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The fuckers don't carry the NFL Network. Never heard of FearNet, so don't really care.
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...until 80% of their selection became unwatchable straight-to-DVD crap. Then I became far more selective of what they were offering up.
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fuck the peeps behind my post but that is so much bullshit.Cable Should be getting cheaper thanks to the upgrades in technology and bandwidth.fearnet and any other on demand should be the norm of getting free on cable service
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I've had TWC for years and I've never even heard of that channel. Not that I'd defend those cocksuckers at TWC... but... fearnet? really? Who knew.
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...Yes I am.
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NFL Network would be nice, but the reason most systems don't carry it is because of the DirecTV NFL Season Ticket monopoly. NFL Network is a lame little bone thrown your way by the NFL to keep you from realizing that you should be able to get the Season Ticket since most of the stadiums in the NFL are at least partially paid for by taxpayers. Oh, and I never got FearNet, but it does suck when a useful niche channel goes under, yet Oxygen keeps chugging along.
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Right now I am far more concerned with Time Warner's craptastic plan to bend me over a table and charge me out the ass sans reach-around just to use the Internet.
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TimeWarner bragged about 10,000 movies on demand. 99% of them were crap and you had to pay for most of them. Fearnet's selections were no worse than the movies you had to pay for. They had friday the 13th, movie one and two... both free and better than the remake and the 11 dollar ticket. Getting rid of fearnet is just another reason TimeWarner sucks. -
I'm gonna help
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All kinds of great 80's horror cheese. "Monsters," "Freddy's Nightmares," "Beauty and the Beast," "Werewolf," "Twilight Zone" etc. Gotta love it.
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Get with the times. DirecTV and Verizon-FiOS are far superior to the cable companies.
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...but I could never understand why nobody ever thought to create a channel that would duplicate the Weekend Creature Double Feature experience from the seventies and eighties, that's what I've really been waiting for. Those old Godzilla movies and schlock monster movies have gotta be pretty cheap to get together, it would probably be very profitable.
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Apr 03, 2009 3:21:16 AM CDT
Chiller would be perfect if it was uncensored- limited commercia
by scott2tune
What's the point of Chiller showing Friday the 13th & Freddy movies if they are edited anyway?
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Apr 03, 2009 3:21:20 AM CDT
Chiller would be perfect if it was uncensored- limited commercia
by scott2tune
What's the point of Chiller showing Friday the 13th & Freddy movies if they are edited anyway?
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dude, all your stuff is denied to people who don't live in the States. Fearnet does me as much good as a film on Beta tape.
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the screen every few minutes. I'd gladly exchange it for Boomerang.
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Sorry, I will take Chiller with Brimstone, Freddys Nightmares, Monsters, over the lame bullshit on Fearnet. Oh, and the people that work for Time Warner in the Cincinnati area are the biggest bunch of retards I've ever met in my life.
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I'm too busy getting ready to kick TWC's ass over Internet usage to care about an on demand channel I didn't even know I had (do I have it?)
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That nobody remembered
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I love FearNet, one of the few free "On Demand" channels I actually watched on a regular basis. This fucking sucks.
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I want my motherfucking MOJO back! Oh, they went bankrupt. I don't fucking care! I still need it!!!
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BRING BACK FEARNET!!!! http://tinyurl.com/dgub9z
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Apr 03, 2009 9:57:21 AM CDT
Maybe people don't want HORROR TV? Hence they go bust!
by silentbobafett2
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There already is a channel of horror, it's called the Obama Teleprompter.
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Now THAT is funny.
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The movie was bad enough, why would I want to watch every single take of every single scene?
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What do you use for ISP? TWC will be starting a cap program in Austin and San Antonio starting in a few months. One more reason why they suck.
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Hell yeah! And FearnetHD on demand! Whoo whoo! Seriously, I moved a few years back about 10-15 miles from where I was and due to my 'crossing the river into another state' choice, I get waaaaaay better cable service. Fuck Time Warner! Your service sucks!
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Fearnut SUCKS. It's completely lame, I had such high hopes for it when it came out. I wish Comcast would get rid of it too.
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was awesome. Best horror flick in years.
Fearnet is great. (for those who don't know, it's an "on demand" chanel, like free pay-per-view.)
FEARnet is about the only reasons I keep cable. Haters can get dragged to hell. -
ditto.
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that is I can't believe people watch either channel. I wish Comcast would cut it too, there's never anything good to watch. Take away the porn channels too. Real men don't pay for porn... we steal it from the internet, which is what the gods intended when they created the internet and you know it.
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Fearnet and Spike both have pros and cons. Fearnet has some bad movies and annoying popups, but is also the only free movie channel I watch On Demand (luckily I have comcast here in Illinois so I am safe, for now). While Spike has about 99% shitty shows and movies, but they also are rerunning the Shield now. Which rocks. Pros and cons people. Pros and cons.
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The had a bunch of Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing, Hammer flicks that I watched for free. If I had Time Warner I'd definitely call and bitch about it.
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The whole internet is furious over Time Warner's coming internet capping - internet capping which directly affects Austin Texas. If you're going to galvanise a revolt, you may want to give FEARnet second billing. ;-)
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Apr 03, 2009 2:32:38 PM CDT
The internet's greatest achievement is the availability of free
by lanemyersclassic
That is the most logical, salient, description of the internet I think I've ever heard.
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Did it come and go too? As for Chiller- I'd watch if it were in HD
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I pay 400 bucks a month for shit like MTV and VH1
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...at 2am in the morning, though.
Tonight they have a how about hair band groupies. Paging Tawny Kitaen.
You have it good...I'm paying for 3 Spanish channels. Mi no habla Spanish. -
WTH?
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I finally got to see NIGHT OF THE CREEPS.
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but I'm saddled with the burden of Comcast cable; which isn't all that bad, from a TV watching standpoint, but the techs they send out tend to be complete assholes.
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They can't fix their problems. I have to get a replacement hi def box every few weeks. picture freezes and cubes all the time.
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Any channel. Spike. Lifetime. TLC. Niños Central. I don't care where. I'll watch it religiously.
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I don't get this message. what is "fearnet.com"? is it one of these bullshit "branding strategies" where the name of the channel is also a website? or is this some fan site? (in which case, why do they need an "associate editor"?) Or maybe it's fernet.com and he was too drunk to spell it right?
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You know nothing.
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Chiller and Fearnet sound intersting but I want a Creature Feature Channel with both the old horror films AND the sci-fi ones too. How come no one's done this? All those wonderfully campy films from the 40's to the 80's. And I want it in a format like WUNGOLIOTH is talking about. I want a dude dressed up like Dracula and popping out of a coffin to introduce the movies. I guarantee you on a Saturday and Sunday morning, little kids would eat that shit up. And yeah throw some MST3K in there like DAGGOR said. By the way, i worked at a soundstage where they film CINEMATIC TITANIC and I got to sit back and watch the boys do there thing for a whole week and yeah, i laughed my fucking ass off. All of them were awesome guys and I got them all to sign my MITCHELL dvd. How cool is that?
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Time Warner was extremely apologetic, had no idea what FearNet was, seemed not to care after double checking it wasn't available anymore and asked if I'd like some more pay channels.
It took them TWO YEARS to finally get Starz On Demand and they've only just begun to offer Network channels on Demand (a pitiful selection for now) and then they do this. Time Warner: The Red Headed Stepchild of Cable Television. -
I call the number above, they ask if want SMS Texts (1 for yes, 2 for no), I hit 2 and the message says "I'm Sorry, But Direct TV does not currently carry FearNet." and proceeds to connect me to them. Direct TV?! I thought this was about Time Warner. Heads out of asses people. Do try to fix this in time for it to actually matter.
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Not enough reality shows and wrestling! That's whats doing it in.
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Apr 03, 2009 10:59:50 PM CDT
Yes, I am going to sit here and let Time-Warner Cable...
by leafar the lost
...take FearNet away from me. From my understanding of things, Time-Warner Cable employs thousands of people all across the U.S.A, and I am just one person. There is no away I can fight off thousands of people. Maybe I could hold off hundreds of them if I had the right equipment, but there is no way I can fight an entire corporation. Sorry, Hercules, but I am afraid that we are just going to have to sit by and let Time-Warner Cable take away FearNet. We should consider ourselves fortunate that they don't want to take away anything else.
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I poke through it a couple of times a month, and rarely end up watching any of it.
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It just isn't. Hope Comcast kills it too.
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I have TWC and watched fear.net a couple of of times but even during Halloween there was no great content. And the little series that they have all suck too. F'em. Why am I in such a pissy mood. I'm a tool.
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But still, it's one of the few genre specific outlets out there for horror fans. When you're in the mood for fun horror flick, even if you've seen it a dozen times before, it's there (and honestly, it's picking out a familiar favorite or seeing something you'd been putting off for a long time that makes the idea of it worthwhile). In short, it's not great, there's room for improvement, but it's a damn sight better than nothing. I'd rather have the option of knowing it's there when the odd horror movie mood strikes (which for me, is about every other day) than know I'll have to suck it up and hope that MAYBE one of the premium channels has something not completely made of fetid suck on.
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Why on earth would anyone WANT to get into cable these days? More and more people are dropping cable every day to watch everything online through their pc's, appletv, roku boxes, Playstation 3's, XBox live, etc etc etc. You want to do something as a horror channel, do it all online. Strike a deal with Netflix, Hulu, XBox, etc.
Sure cable's still the mainstream but at the rate things are changing, that won't be the case in another couple years. -
Not to attack you, but i am in "the business" (i know that is such a d- bag thing to say), but there is NO money to be made on the internet that would support a TV channel. Going through hulu or netfilx requires revenue sharing...which is fine, but 1 penny per view doesn't add up to the 30,000$ licensing fee of a movie(yes it is that much for "good" films).
Also, i am not a fearnet employee nor am i a time warner employee, but i do know a little about what is going on. Fearnet was offered completely free to time warner for a certain amount of time. That time expired and they needed to pay or drop, they dropped.
I also know, what other channels, like fearnet, charge the cable outlet is about 2-5 cents a month per customer. Two F'n cents
So to close, when cool channels are taken away from you over little to no cost to the cable company and you pay 50-100$ a month...be pissed off. You may not have ever watched fearnet, but any channel you dig can get taken away after the "trial" period and if you like it, odds are others do as well, so speak up. -
Sooooo yeah.
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I remember I wanted to just buy Showtime, because they were advertizing it at like $5 a month. And I thought yeah I want that....no the only way I could get Showtime is if I also bought On-demand which was $30 a month. Fuckers, when is cable just going to be like select 100 channels of your own.
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Anyone who feels that CHILLER is more desirable than FEARNet is out of their mind. I do have some serious ussues with FEARNet../the main one being their annoying video ads during a film which take up 25% of the picture! Even worse than what TNT does! THAT is reprehensible. Aside from that, it's the best option for horros fans out there. For one thing, they offer some films in HD! And a few even before they hit DVD. CHILLER offers none. I also prefer the wide range of movies instead of the lame, failed TV shows that fill up the majority of CHILLER. No commercials (except for a mid-break) is another plus for FEARNet. So is unedited movies! As well as original programming. Even though I don't watch it much, I always check the listings, hoping for more HD (and 5.1 audio). Losing FEARNet should (and would) be a big loss to horror fans. I'd hate to lose it (FIoS here) and hope that TWC customers who feel the same will try and do something about it! (And if any from FEARNet reads this, PLEASE dump the obtrusive ads during the movies!!)
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I don't have Time Warner, but fearnet has to expand their content. I am really tired of viewing a horror film that is shot with a camcorder(These movies look like they were shot in my backyard). Wouldn't it be awesome if they had the entire Romero zombie series, or 15 good slasher movies(April Fool's Day or the first My Bloody Valentine)? Also, they recycle the movies. Hey, here is an idea, when you retire a movie, at least give it a few months, don't say it ends Thursday, and when Thursday hits keep it up and have the text new beside it(This pisses me off, greatly).
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