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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.650 million people have the digital package with Comcast, and most of them don't give a rat's patootie about NFL Network.What those of you that have comcast need to do, is call them up and threaten to leave thier service if they make the move. It won't do anything if only a small amount of people do this, you have to get everyone you know that has comcast to call in.
Yeah, but you know, us older fans remember times when we watched all the away games and some of the home games. When the pats didn't sell out, the game was blacked out. We survived, listend to the radio.As long as they keep broadcasting games that are on the NFLN to network TV in the local markets, I'll be happy. It would be a problem though if I didn't like in Massachusetts.
I'd switch to DirectTV except that I've got 7 TVs in this house. I only have two of them on cable boxes and the othere 5 get straight cable but the cost to go to DirectTV is greater than keeping my cable. I also have internet access through them. I think I'm S.O.L.
im sol too
its impossible for me to get a dish, cuz im jumpin from apartment to apartment every 12 months (jus graduated college a yr ago)
i guess ill hafta suck it up
thing that sux is that i know my new roomate starting in sept(old friend from hs), as well as my current roommate (who only watches soccer) wont want the package so ill hafta pay it all
exactly what else is on it?
Fox Soccer Channel is part of it. Negotiate my man!
Full line up:
Outdoor Channel
Fox Soccer Channel
Tennis Channel
Fox College Sports-Atlantic
Fox College Sports-Central
Fox College Sports-Pacific
College Sports TV
NBA TV
ESPN Classic
Fox College Sports and CSTV all show college soccer too, if he is interested in that.
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650 million people have the digital package with Comcast, and most of them don't give a rat's patootie about NFL Network.
Here's Charter's currently:
ESPNews (is valuable now since NESN stopped showing it)
ESPNClassic (not that much on it)
Fox Sports Atlantic (Worthless)
Fox Sports Central (Worthless)
Fox Sports Pacific (Worthless)
Fox Sports Espana (Spanish - extremely worthless)
Fox Sports World (World soccer games - extremely worthless)
Fuel (Skateboarding and other crap)
College Sports TV (College rugby and other crap - worthless)
Tennis Channel (Worthless)
TVG (Horse racing - extremely worthless)
Sportsman TV (Worthless)
FitTV (Worthless)
Horse Racing TV (Worthless)
Does this mean that if you don't have directv, you might get a shot at Sunday Ticket?
650 million people have the digital package with Comcast, and most of them don't give a rat's patootie about NFL Network.
Does this mean that if you don't have directv, you might get a shot at Sunday Ticket?
Well, forget NFL network, then. If each of those 650 million digital-package subscribers just gave me one penny, I could live in the style to which I'd like to become accustomed....which is exactly what this is all about. The NFL had been forcing operators to make all the millions of people who don't give a rat's patootie to pay anyway. So now your neighbors won't be supporting your habit.
I agree with all of this. NFLN was never free on Comcast, they paid a vast sum for it and were passing every bit of that cost on to customers. The difference is that my mom, the retiree with no interest in sports talk, will no longer be subsidizing the exorbitant cost on behalf of football fans.
I'm got DirecTV when I lived in Orlando and I now live in California. I didn't know thier customer service got worse. I've never had to call them for anything except when I moved and that was real easy. And free.
I just want to reiterate this point. It is silly to make every single subscriber pay for the NFLN when a small percentage wants it.
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The NFLN could be on every single cable system nationwide if they just charged a normal rate. They don't; they charge one of the most expensive rates in the industry. sunday ticket on the dish only hurts their bargaining position; the hardcore fans already get the dish, so why should time warner pay the rate to please the non-hardcores? we're not willing to go to dish for sunday ticket, so are we going to go to dish for NFLN?