Stupid NFL Network and Comcast

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Scav

You guys just need to get enough people to bitch about it. I have Comcast here in Chicago and we get the NFL Network, albeit at an additional $5 per month, but whatever, you get three Fox Sports, some soccer crap and TVG.

here's the financial explanation from espn last week. nfl wants on basic cable, cable co. wants it as a premium channel. nfl is charging to much to be basic cable. for small cable co. it breaks out like $2 per household for ONE channel. bigger co. can do it for like $1-1.50 per house, so cable co. are making it a premium channel or won't carry it all and the nfl doesn't like it and won't lower the price.

sorry, i side with the cable co. on this one. we pay enough for cable as it is. we have internet, digital and HD for $100 a month and we have NO premium channels. i don't need the nfl network for $2 more a month.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

here's the financial explanation from espn last week. nfl wants on basic cable, cable co. wants it as a premium channel. nfl is charging to much to be basic cable. for small cable co. it breaks out like $2 per household for ONE channel. bigger co. can do it for like $1-1.50 per house, so cable co. are making it a premium channel or won't carry it all and the nfl doesn't like it and won't lower the price.

sorry, i side with the cable co. on this one. we pay enough for cable as it is. we have internet, digital and HD for $100 a month and we have NO premium channels. i don't need the nfl network for $2 more a month.

Comcast went through the same thing with the Big Ten Network -- they've said over and over that they cannot justify passing on the cost of niche networks to every subscriber across an entire cable system. My best recollection was that they offered to add it to the Sports Tier package which is available to all digital subscribers as a monthly a la carte add on like Scav was talking about. But they wouldn't budge on adding it to their basic and expanded cable lineups and making everyone pay for it.

I couldn't agree with that stand more.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Comcast went through the same thing with the Big Ten Network -- they've said over and over that they cannot justify passing on the cost of niche networks to every subscriber across an entire cable system. My best recollection was that they offered to add it to the Sports Tier package which is available to all digital subscribers as a monthly a la carte add on like Scav was talking about. But they wouldn't budge on adding it to their basic and expanded cable lineups and making everyone pay for it.

I couldn't agree with that stand more.

i'm also siding with the cable companies. i would be irate if they bumped me up even more to add stuff i don't want. how much programming can the NFL channel offer anyway. i love that they held their ground.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

i'm also siding with the cable companies. i would be irate if they bumped me up even more to add stuff i don't want. how much programming can the NFL channel offer anyway. i love that they held their ground.

The truth is that they dont care about passing the cost on to the customer. They are taking a hardline because they are trying to buy the NFL network. Lets see what happens after they get that done.

[Crown@club]

BW'3's is packed on the East Side here already. GB is in trouble. No KGB or Charles Woodson, and AL Harris not 100 percent.

Dallas takes it.

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Comcast went through the same thing with the Big Ten Network -- they've said over and over that they cannot justify passing on the cost of niche networks to every subscriber across an entire cable system. My best recollection was that they offered to add it to the Sports Tier package which is available to all digital subscribers as a monthly a la carte add on like Scav was talking about. But they wouldn't budge on adding it to their basic and expanded cable lineups and making everyone pay for it.

I couldn't agree with that stand more.

But they put the Golf Channel, a truly "niche" sport on their basic package? And will offer MLB free as well in 2009 when that deal is done? Both sides are a joke when they try and say they have the public's best interests at heart, but between the Big Ten debacle and the NFL Network, Comcast hasn't been that fan friendly.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by GBBob

But they put the Golf Channel, a truly "niche" sport on their basic package? And will offer MLB free as well in 2009 when that deal is done? Both sides are a joke when they try and say they have the public's best interests at heart, but between the Big Ten debacle and the NFL Network, Comcast hasn't been that fan friendly.

Dish is the only one remotely close to being fan friendly and that is only because they need to be to stay in business with Directv having the NFL package locked up. You can bet your ass if Dish got the NFL package they'd stop being so fan friendly.