Directv contract with Fox networks coming up...AGREEMENT REACHED

[Mr Tony]

also lets keep on topic and quit with the petty bickering. Looks like most folks know how to have a conversation without resorting to childish "I've been here longer than you...nah uh....my sister is fatter than yours"

 

[Lkr]

I guess D* will have to make sense out of why i decide to drop them when they have been given the ability to keep the channels lit during negotiations :\

 

[Mr Tony]

They're still lit.

I guess we'll see what happens on 11/1
Maybe I'll start worrying next Sunday but as of today I got too much other stuff to worry about. Hell its just TV

 

[Jimbo]

I guess D* will have to make sense out of why i decide to drop them when they have been given the ability to keep the channels lit during negotiations :\

Where would you go then, you've been with DISH twice and left ?

 

[The Fat Man]

I just looked at the thread for the first time. I don't know what was said except on the first page and this page. Anyway, I have to say that DirecTV might try to hold out, but FOX won't let this happen. FOX has too much money in their sports programning being sponsored by DirecTV. As for DirecTV, they also won't want the black eye from being the "Best Provider for Sports" losing a network of RSNs. However, I do understand that DirecTV went through the VS. dispute a few years back, but besides two to three NHL games a week, VS. (at that time) didn't have much for DirecTV to worry about. Dish last year was a different scenario. Dish does't put much money into sponsering FOX programning. Dish is also the number 2 Satellite Provider, DirecTV is number 1. Dish is known to drag their feet, where DirecTV will scratch and claw for Sports, because it's what their known for.

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Just thought of it, but FOX might have a lot to lose, and that's why DirecTV is going all in. I would bet that FOX has some kind of a fair deals clause with the other providers. So if Dish, Comcast, Cablevision, etc. ponied up a hike in fees, and now DirecTV is saying "f that",and FOX gives in, FOX might see these guys coming up the driveway demanding a lot of money back. DirecTV knows this, and is using it as a ploy to get some other kind compensation.

 

[coinmaster32]

I'm not a big fan of sports, if you ask me they should do away with it. Who pays good money to watch someone hit a ball with a stick, throw one in a basket, or kick one in a net? Not me.

Sports is a big, gigantic waste of money. All it does it bloat the guide and the capacity of the satellites. Over TWO HUNDRED channels are being used for sports, no wonder why there is little room for more HD.

 

[Mr Tony]

Who pays good money to watch someone hit a ball with a stick, throw one in a basket, or kick one in a net? Not me.

no you'd rather spend money on porn.

And by the way...I pay "good money" (as you put it) to watch sports...yet my bill isnt that bad. Some people pay more to see movies.

 

[JerseyMatt]

I'm not a big fan of sports, if you ask me they should do away with it. Who pays good money to watch someone hit a ball with a stick, throw one in a basket, or kick one in a net? Not me.

Sports is a big, gigantic waste of money. All it does it bloat the guide and the capacity of the satellites. Over TWO HUNDRED channels are being used for sports, no wonder why there is little room for more HD.

Says the guy who's all pissed off about the lack of HD porn.

Just.. Wow.

That's all I'm going to say because everything else I'm thinking right now will get me banned.

 

[Mr Tony]

Over TWO HUNDRED channels are being used for sports, no wonder why there is little room for more HD.

I call bull right there. Alot of the part time HD (NFL ST, NASCAR stuff) they shut off PPV HD chanels during that time. Not even close to 100, much less 200

 

[coinmaster32]

I call bull right there. Alot of the part time HD (NFL ST, NASCAR stuff) they shut off PPV HD chanels during that time. Not even close to 100, much less 200

So when I look at the guide, channels 600 through 799 are just my imagination?

 

[SpaethCo]

If you want to use broadcast capacity as an argument, how many channels are airing the same programs over and over again? Not only that, much of the content is available via other means as well through both physical disc rentals and online Internet video sources.

There is one thing you can say about sport programming: It's all brand new content that is not readily available through alternate means.

 

[Lkr]

So when I look at the guide, channels 600 through 799 are just my imagination?

most of those are part time HD such as NFL ST, MLB EI, Nascar, NBA LP, etc. The 600s are all RSNs, they're like local channels.

Jimbo - I'd consider going to Comcast or U-Verse to be honest. I'd rather they dump the Faux news channels than ones that show good programming.

 

[Mr Tony]

So when I look at the guide, channels 600 through 799 are just my imagination?

yep they are...because as noted 701-799 are part time HD channels
600-699 are the RSN's and at least 1/2 of them are part time too or RSN alternate channels that are used maybe once a week for overflow stuff

 

[The Fat Man]

Dodger King mentioned that the only sport effected would be Hockey. It's always the NHL that gets the shaft.

 

[coinmaster32]

Not much else I can say, I just don't like sports. Not all men do, and I bet if you took a poll, more men like porn then sports.

I've seen contract disputes all my life. Usually the program provider gets greedy and thinks "Hey, if they are OK paying $10, why not make them pay $20?"

 

[SpaethCo]

Dodger King mentioned that the only sport effected would be Hockey. It's always the NHL that gets the shaft.

For professional sports, since the NBA is still imploding under their ridiculous lockout, yeah.

The impact is still far beyond hockey when you look at all of the college sports carried on the regional sports nets.

 

[Mr Tony]

So when I look at the guide, channels 600 through 799 are just my imagination?

so lets see...just went through those "200 channels of sports"

when it is all said and done
139 total channels between 600 and 699-1 (the alternate channels list twice..once for SD and the -1 for HD thats why more than 100)
when you remove the actual RSN's and the other sports channels you have a whole 41 total...and 2 of them (FS Ohio& FS Cincy) are part time HD...the other 98 are just alternate channels
also a few of the channels in the beginning of the 600's arent in HD either

so you have probably 35 sports channels full time in HD

 

[coinmaster32]

I would just be happy with one hd porn channel.

 

[Lkr]

Not much else I can say, I just don't like sports. Not all men do, and I bet if you took a poll, more men like porn then sports.

I've seen contract disputes all my life. Usually the program provider gets greedy and thinks "Hey, if they are OK paying $10, why not make them pay $20?"

it doesn't matter what you like when you are making no argument whatsoever. i don't understand the point of your post other than to say you don't like sports.

 

[The Fat Man]

Ok, I'm not tuching that one coinmaster. But anyway, Someone on way earlier page asked about Center Ice, and as for what I can see, they never got an answer. Going back to the Dish dispute, what happened was that Blackout restrictions still applied. If your home team is the Florida Panthers on FS Florida, and you lose that channel, you can't watch the FS Florida feed, or the other team's feed on CI, whether you have FS Florida or not. Now, you mentioned being in Chicago and being a Blues fan. Last year, people like you on Dish got to watch the Blues on FS North (or whatever FS carries the Blues), but only in SD. CI provides the SD feeds, the Satellite providers are responsible for the HD feeds. So if the Blues are playing the Penguins, you will get the FS Blues feed in SD only on CI, but you can watch the game in HD from the Penguins Root Sports feed. If it's the Bles vs. the Red Wings then your SOL and JWF as Geroge Carlin used to put it.