Re: NFL Network....same cost everywhere?
To all Comcast customers mad about the NFLN switching over to a sports tier:
Just be happy you still have access to the NFLN. As a Charter customer (essentially outside of 495), we haven't tasted the NFLN since December 2005. That means no Patriots onDemand (which we never had anyway, since it was a Comcast-exclusive deal), no NFLN onDemand, and none of the programming on the NFLN - that includes the regular season games, NFLE games, non-Pats preseason games, and most importantly, NFL Replay. When the NFLN replayed the Pats-Raiders Snow Bowl, I was dying just to set my DVD recorder to Channel 316 (NFLN on Charter) and actually have something record.
Sigh...
(And oh, by the way: Charter always had NFLN on a sports tier. Charter still is living in the dark ages when it comes to Digital Cable - their boxes and interface hasn't changed in at least 6 or 7 years. They add channels like TVG (Horse racing) and the Tennis Channel, while eliminating channels like the NFLN and disregarding channels like NBATV. As far as their setup goes, they have basic cable (~25 channels), expanded basic (~75 channels, non-Digital), and then two tiers: a family/kids/music tier (DIY, MTV2, etc.) and a sports tier (ESPNews, ESPNClassic, FoxSportsGlobal, etc.), one of which you choose from for free. That's it, besides their movie, PPV, and MusicChoice tiers. The only sports games packages they carry are MLB games and (I think) NHL games, both of which are pretty expensive. So, DirectTV folks, that means no Sunday Ticket or any of that. Hooray exclusivity!)
(And they just jacked up their prices. Fantastic.)