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Article: NYC-TW/Turner-News Corp. battle goes to court; hearings begin to determine fate of two cable channels.(Time Warner Cable attempts to block New York, New York, from granting access to News Corporation Ltd.'s Fox News Channel and Bloomberg Television)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
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- October 28, 1996
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Hearings begin to determine fate of two cable channels
The second round in the battle between Time Warner Cable and News Corp. gets under way this week with court hearings in Time Warner's challenge to New York City's attempt to force it to carry News Corp.'s Fox News Channel (FNC).
Time Warner seeks to block the mayor's office from turning over two of the city's five "Crosswalks" public access channels to Rupert Murdoch's FNC and the Bloomberg Television Network.
The city contends that Time Warner, which recently merged with Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), refuses to carry the networks to protect Turner-owned CNN from competition.
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