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Thursday, August 17, 2006
No Network for Charter
Bill Doyle Tuning In
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Eight months after Charter Communications stopped carrying the NFL Network, the cable company is no closer to bringing it back.
Charter ceased offering the NFL Network and NFL on Demand in December over a contract dispute. The NFL Network had been part of Charter’s digital sports tier, but Dennis Jerome, Charter’s director of marketing in New England, said this week that the NFL Network wanted to be moved to the expanded basic cable package to reach more viewers. Jerome also said the network wanted to increase its rights fee by 350 percent. Charter officials at national headquarters in St. Louis refused and the two parted ways.
“They’re not returning our phone calls,” NFL Network spokesperson Seth Palansky said of Charter’s national office in St. Louis. “It doesn’t look good.”
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The NFL Network will televise the Patriots’ preseason home opener against Arizona on Saturday night, but Charter Communications won’t miss out because WCVB Channel 5 in Boston will also broadcast the game. The absence of the NFL Network on Charter will become more of an issue when the network televises eight NFL regular-season games in prime time, beginning with the Broncos-Chiefs on Thanksgiving. None of those eight games will involve the Patriots, so no local television station will simulcast them.
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The three-year-old NFL Network is available in 41 million homes, but not in such NFL cities as New York, St. Louis and Houston. Comcast carries it in Boston and northern Worcester County. Shrewsbury Cable offers it as well. DirecTV and the Dish Network offer the NFL Network via satellite.
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