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In case you haven't heard yet, my cable operator is Charter, which dropped the NFLN last December. The NFL Network just continues to piss more people off, and I don't think having the Thanksgiving games is going to change anything.
Cable operators balk at NFL Network
Posted: Tuesday November 21, 2006 6:00PM; Updated: Tuesday November 21, 2006 6:00PM
NEW YORK (AP) -- The NFL will air the first of eight live pro football games on its own network on Thanksgiving. But they won't be available to many viewers across the country because the league hasn't reached carriage agreements with several major cable operators.
The eight games -- beginning with Thursday's matchup of the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs -- will be available on local broadcasters, satellite TV and a number of other cable systems that do carry the NFL Network. But that totals only about 40 million of the nation's 111.4 million households with TVs.
Most notable among the cable companies that haven't reached deals with the National Football League are No. 2 operator Time Warner Cable, which is a unit of the media conglomerate Time Warner Inc.; Cablevision Systems Corp., a New York-area provider; and Charter Communications Inc. Time Warner, for its part, says it's highly unlikely a deal will be reached in time for the first game.
Comcast Corp., the largest cable company in the country, has carried the network for two years, but as part of a premium-tier sports package ordered by only about 7 million of its 24 million subscribers. Time Warner says it's balking at a demand from NFL that the network be carried on the most widely available basic service lineup.
In case you haven't heard yet, my cable operator is Charter, which dropped the NFLN last December. The NFL Network just continues to piss more people off, and I don't think having the Thanksgiving games is going to change anything.
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