‘In a word: money. Time Warner officials say MSG has twice reneged on a deal that would have seen the fee to air MSG networks go up 6.5 percent and now is demanding a 53 per-cent increase. MSG officials say Time Warner’s assertions are “gross mischaracterizations” but refuse to discuss the hard numbers involved in the negotiations. The two sides had been negotiating privately for about two years. In mid-December, about two weeks before the last contract expired, the battle went public, and the acrimony has only increased since then.’