Time Warner Cable Moves Ahead With Its Controversial iPad App

6:52 AM PDT 3/25/2011 by Georg Szalai

Network executives have argued the company does not have the right to live stream their channels under existing deals, but TW Cable plans to add more networks to the app, and its programming chief calls TV “an anachronistic term.”

NEW YORK – In a continuing showdown with programming partners, a top Time Warner Cable executive said her company is "well within our rights" to stream live TV channels to iPads in subscribers’ homes via a controversial app and is planning to add all networks available on TWC to the app’s channel lineup.