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The NFL Network is offering Time Warner Cable one free week of its programming, but the offer doesn't appear to include any NFL games - just the Dec. 28 Texas Bowl and the Dec. 29 Insight Bowl. The Texas Bowl pits Rutgers and Kansas State and apparently Rutgers fans in New Jersey were ticked off at the prospect of not seeing the big game. No word yet on what Time Warner will do. Both Time Warner and Cablevision say that the NFL is asking too much money for its programming and nobody seems to be budging.
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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.