I am sure that by now you've seen the TV commercials and heard the radio commercials on the CBS-owned stations here in the Los Angeles area -- they are urging viewers to call Time Warner Cable and tell them not to drop CBS2.

But that's not really a true representation about what's going on.

What's really going on is the CBS is demanding that Time Warner Cable pay CBS more money to carry CBS programs (that's Channel 2's broadcast) on its cable system.

The argument seems to be that CBS wants more money, and Time Warner says that if it pays CBS more than it will have to raise the price of cable TV service.

Read more here: http://www.thewrap.com/tv/article/cb...c-heats-105246

I don't think the public really understands, how the media business really works and who pays who.