04.30.09 HERE COMES A BLOW TO THE NFL NETWORK
If you have Comcast and you have the NFL Network on your subscription tier, say a little prayer tonight. At 11:59 Eastern Time tonight, Comcast will pull the plug on the NFL Network.
Comcast has asked the National Football League to continue the carriage under terms of the current contract. The NFL has refused and would like Comcast to place the channel on a general-interest tier that does not require viewers to pay the extra $7 a month. About two million people get Comcast’s sports package.
“Comcast wants to carry NFL Network, and we have offered to carry it under the terms of our current affiliation agreement while the litigation that the NFL brought against Comcast continues, but the NFL has not accepted our offer,” Comcast’s Sena Fitzmaurice said in a statement. “We believe our proposed extension is in the best interest of our customers and NFL fans so that they can continue to have the same access to the network that they now enjoy.”
The NFL’s demands on Comcast to make the NFL Network a Channel For The People while maintaining an exclusive relationship with DirecTV for out-of-market games could not be more hypocritical. And with the buzz surrounding the MLB network since it went live in January, the NFL would be hard-pressed to appear more greedy. And I don’t mean High Ticket Prices Greedy, because I get that. I’m talking We’re Gonna Squeeze Every Goddamn Dollar Out Of You That We Can Instead Of Working Toward A Mutually Beneficial Middle Ground Greedy. Even prostitutes are capable of negotiating reasonable terms. But I guess this is why the NFL decided on a commissioner that’s too cheap to even buy an entire suit.
|Philadelphia Enquirer, via GameOn|
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HERE COMES A BLOW TO THE NFL NETWORK
I don’t doubt that the people running the NFL Network are being dicks, but it’s hard to stay mad at them when they’re fucking over Comcast. That’s like getting mad at the Ebola virus for infecting Hitler.
Hey I have Cablevision aka Optimum which aint got shit. I can’t watch thurs night football anyways. Those are the nights I play dungeons and dragons with the chess club.
Why certain channels are or are not on the Comcast sports tier continues to be a mystery wrapped in an enigma eaten by a panda.
As a DirectTV customer, I laugh at your puny cable system.
Comcast is giving up 12 months of free Starz for the inconvenience though.
Still not worth it. bastards
When you said, “here comes a blow to the NFL network”, I thought that they hired Woody Paige.
I already get that sports package, so it’s not extra money for me. I’m just losing the NFL Network and not saving any $7. This sucks.
@Hercules- Party Down is pretty entertaining and the chick really gets me in the mood for intercourse.
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/out of entendres for the day.
Fuck comcast with a giant rubber cock. They can get big bucket of the clap and it would serve them right. Bastards of misery.
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