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By: Reagan Hackleman
On the field, it's all about football. But when you get off the field, it's all about green, and we're not talking about the grass.
Eight NFL football games shown exclusively on the NFL Network, including two Dallas Cowboy's games, are causing all the controversy.
"The NFL wants to take football games that were free to the public, anyone could get over the air, whether you had cable, satellite or an antenna, and those eight games are being taken away," Stacy Schmitt with Time Warner Cable said.
The eight games in question will only be broadcast live over the NFL Network, and will be unavailable in any other format, causing thousands of fans to miss out.
"All other networks, over 240 other cable and satellite companies, have our network figured in their business plan," Jerry Jones of the NFL Network said.
The cost to Time Warner Cable would be over $150 million, smoething the network doesn't want to pay for a service that they feel was once freely available. They aren't alone; Comcast, the nation's largest cable provider, has also refused to support the NFL Network.
Time Warner said they offered a compromise of allowing the channel in its sports-tier package on digital cable, but the NFL Network said they wanted to be part of standard cable.
The debate has been a hot topic during drive time on the Jeff Ward radio show, which airs on KLBJ's AM station.
"Both sides are awfully powerful and I think have legitimate arguments on both sides, they both know that if they give they know they might not get it back," Ward said.
Either way you look at it, this feud between the NFL Network and Time Warner Cable is bad news for Cowboys' fans, but it's good news for businesses like the Tavern.
Tavern manager Nathan Glowacki subscribes to both Time Warner and a satellite provider.
"It's bad news for me as a fan, but I like it because it brings more people in here because you can't sit at home and watch it," he said.
"I just want to see the games. I think everybody in their region should be able to see their games," Time Warner Cable subscriber Jack Davis said.
Editor's note: News 8 is a subsidiary of Time Warner Cable.
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On the field, it's all about football. But when you get off the field, it's all about green, and we're not talking about the grass.
Eight NFL football games shown exclusively on the NFL Network, including two Dallas Cowboy's games, are causing all the controversy.
"The NFL wants to take football games that were free to the public, anyone could get over the air, whether you had cable, satellite or an antenna, and those eight games are being taken away," Stacy Schmitt with Time Warner Cable said.
The eight games in question will only be broadcast live over the NFL Network, and will be unavailable in any other format, causing thousands of fans to miss out.
"All other networks, over 240 other cable and satellite companies, have our network figured in their business plan," Jerry Jones of the NFL Network said.
The cost to Time Warner Cable would be over $150 million, smoething the network doesn't want to pay for a service that they feel was once freely available. They aren't alone; Comcast, the nation's largest cable provider, has also refused to support the NFL Network.
Time Warner said they offered a compromise of allowing the channel in its sports-tier package on digital cable, but the NFL Network said they wanted to be part of standard cable.
The debate has been a hot topic during drive time on the Jeff Ward radio show, which airs on KLBJ's AM station.
"Both sides are awfully powerful and I think have legitimate arguments on both sides, they both know that if they give they know they might not get it back," Ward said.
Either way you look at it, this feud between the NFL Network and Time Warner Cable is bad news for Cowboys' fans, but it's good news for businesses like the Tavern.
Tavern manager Nathan Glowacki subscribes to both Time Warner and a satellite provider.
"It's bad news for me as a fan, but I like it because it brings more people in here because you can't sit at home and watch it," he said.
"I just want to see the games. I think everybody in their region should be able to see their games," Time Warner Cable subscriber Jack Davis said.
Editor's note: News 8 is a subsidiary of Time Warner Cable.
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for more updates visit http://gryphononcowboys.blogspot.com/
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