NFL Network on Time Warner???
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Chocolate Lab
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cowboys#1;1781919 said:
That stinks. Apologies to everyone who doesn't have a view of the southern sky, but they shouldn't give in. I bet this would hurt the cable companies badly if they didn't.
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I live close to the Dallas area, but don't get DFW locals.... about an hour and a half away from Ft. Worth.
Here is verbatim what my Channel 319 says. The channel caption is "reserved for NFL."
On the screen it states:
"Reserved for the NFL Network
Dallas Cowboys vs.
Green Bay Packers
Football Game Nov. 29th
Unfortunately, the NFL has
refused our offer."
At the bottom they have a scroll that says, "If Jerry says "yes," you can watch the game here.
Just FYI.
Here is verbatim what my Channel 319 says. The channel caption is "reserved for NFL."
On the screen it states:
"Reserved for the NFL Network
Dallas Cowboys vs.
Green Bay Packers
Football Game Nov. 29th
Unfortunately, the NFL has
refused our offer."
At the bottom they have a scroll that says, "If Jerry says "yes," you can watch the game here.
Just FYI.
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Kilyin;1782119 said:
I remember what Stanley was talking about last year. Some cable subscribers had the NFLN all year but then didn't get the games once they started. It didn't happen with the satellite companies.
I didn't have NFLN at the time, but I remember people complaining about it.
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Chocolate Lab;1782126 said:
There are two price structures for cable providers. One price has the base NFLN, another substantially higher price has the NFLN including the eight live games.
Some cable providers didn't inform consumers that they would not be getting the games.
Sattelite subscribers all had the games.
EDIT *** I meant to quote Kilyin instead of you, sorry ****
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I was one of the guys who got duped into buying the poor mans version of NFLN, my cable company failed to tell anyone that this version would not have the games available, in fact they were advertising the NFLN and the 8 games to get people away from Time-Warner and onto Grande Communications.
Then about a week before the games they had commercials saying that they would not be showing the games due to the fact the NFLN was asking Grande Communications to pay 100 million for rights to show those 8 games last year.
I immediately canceled my sports tier. I then called Direct TV and they tried to put a dish on my house but our southern exposure was not good enough.
Fortunately, this year the NFLN and Grande Communications worked out a deal and now I can have the NFLN and watch the 8 games. They didn't even add it to the sports tier, it is on the digital package so it costs less for me.
If you live in San Antonio, give Grande Communications a try if your going to miss the game.
Then about a week before the games they had commercials saying that they would not be showing the games due to the fact the NFLN was asking Grande Communications to pay 100 million for rights to show those 8 games last year.
I immediately canceled my sports tier. I then called Direct TV and they tried to put a dish on my house but our southern exposure was not good enough.
Fortunately, this year the NFLN and Grande Communications worked out a deal and now I can have the NFLN and watch the 8 games. They didn't even add it to the sports tier, it is on the digital package so it costs less for me.
If you live in San Antonio, give Grande Communications a try if your going to miss the game.
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lspain1;1781820 said:This ends up being a pretty simple argument. If you are a football fan, you want the NFL to win this argument. The cable companies routinely place content in which they have an ownership interest in the basic tier because it brings in more advertising revenue. The NFL wants the same for the NFLN. Since the NFL exclusively owns the NFLN, the cable providers do not have an ownership interest and want to place the NFLN in a "sports tier" so people will pay them more for the privilege to watch it. This action also drastically reduces the audience and the advertising revenue to the NFL for the NFLN.
Therein lies the argument. The NFL accuses the cable providers of maintaining a double standard for programming and has been insisting on inclusion in the basic tier in their negotiations. At the same time the NFL is insisting on a fairly high rate payment by the cable providers for the rights to carry the NFLN. Some cable providers maintain that they control where programming goes and will not accept the NFL's terms.
Things will probably take a dramatic turn next week when many people realize they are not going to be able to watch the GB vs Dallas game. There will be a hue and cry at that time.
If you like football and want all of those "non-football fans" to help you pay for the service then you want the NFL to win. If you hate football, you want the cable providers to win and have all of those tacky football fans pay for the privilege of watching their silly game.
yep, I have comcast now, and for a couple of weeks when I first got it, NFLN was part of the regular digital pkg, then one day, i couldn't access it anymore. I talked to CSR and they were like...we don't want people who don't watch it to pay for it, so they forced me to get the sports tier pkg (I say forced because I obviously want NFLN) for $3 then $6 after 6 months. Yet, by taking away NFLN in the regular digital pkg, they did not lower the price for it. baastahds, liars, and cheats.
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Jammer;1782329 said:
Directv has on demand,Verizon DSL offers much better routers for wireless throughout the house (I have a laptop next to the porcelain throne that I'm typing this on right now), 11 TVs (5 HD) with tons more HD channels and a much better picture (and still pay less than cable), 1/2 the outages and if the wind's strong enough to rip my dishes off given that they're facing south, I have much bigger concerns than if insurance will cover a few shingles.
The only reason someone could offer to not have sattelite tv is if they lived in a college dorm.
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StanleySpadowski;1782346 said:
DSL is a joke compared to the speed I get with cable. It's not even close. It's much cheaper too.
I don't understand the "better" picture thing. HDTV is HDTV. How can one be better than the other? It's digital and when it storms I don't have to worry about loss of picture as I do with satellite. And since I do live in a high wind area I do have to worry aboutg wind damage. Plus, they're ugly.
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Jammer;1782351 said:
If you can't tell the difference between a Directv HD picture and a cable HD picture, you wasted your money buying HD tvs.
I've lost my signal for a grand total of 46 minutes this year, my closest friend has cable (it's a wager we made so we're keeping track) and he's lost his for 4 hours and 24 minutes so far (it's only between 3:00 PM -12:00 AM M-Th 3:0 PM - 2:00 AM fridays and 8:00 AM to 2:00 AM weekends).
Yea, they may be ugly but that didn't stop my neighbor from driving over after noticing the dishes so he could watch a Penn State game that I was enjoying on the Big Ten Network that he couldn't get despite living less than 35 miles from Beaver Stadium.
I get 33 pay movie channels, better than 50 sports channels including the NFL games on NFLN and college games on the BTN, DSL, land line phone and 4 cellular phones for less than $175 a month thanks to bundling between DirecTV and Verizon and the incredible customer service that DirecTV provides.
What continent do you call when you dial your cable provider?
