Time Warner Cable has been flexing its muscles during contract renewal negotiations with several less-popular channels, including IFC and WE TV, insisting that they "forfeit their usual subscriber
fees while they work to improve their ratings," according to a source cited by the New York Post's
Claire Atkinson. Time Warner has already severed relations with arts and music channel Ovation, and "several sources say NuvoTV, an English-language cable channel targeting Hispanics, is also getting
booted from digital basic as part of a realignment of Time Warner Cable’s programming tiers," writes Atkinson.