• Wall Street Journal, Thursday, October 17, 2013 3:20 PM

Time Warner Cable will start carrying arts channel Ovation Jan. 1 again, ten months after it was pulled from the lineup "amid a public push by the cable operator to cull its lineup of poorly rated channels," writes Shalini Ramachandran. Ovation's commitment to add original programming -- 200 more hours next year -- was a key factor in the return, according to Melinda Witmer, chief video and content officer for Time Warner Cable.

Still, "what’s become of" the company's threat to pull channels with low audiences? asks Ramachandran "The operator has only dropped one other such channel—Current TV—after it was bought by Al Jazeera earlier this year," and is negotiating to get Al Jazeera America, "the channel that Current TV became."

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