I'm thinking the engineers are still messing with stuff and possibly replacing encoders and just seeing what more than can get away with since the resulting increase in bandwidth. That is all IMHO. I really have no clue as to why.
Full time RSN's on Dish?
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I think this is much more about the the one-channel for one-team services. It represents little value all year-round. The RSN's are in a better position because they offer more than just one of the home teams and some other sports content like university or small college sports or niche sports like swimming, diving, gymnastics, ets, so paying for that year round for such a service makes some sense to an MVPD.
Ironically, it seems to be the internet and the leagues going "behind the back" of the RSN's that can make it possible for many to not have to depend upon an RSN for their local sports or other sports fix.
Exactly, combine the Dodgers and Lakers and you can ask for the $5 or so you're looking for from Dodgers only.
And that's the problem with CSNNE in Boston. One major sport, (and the fourth popular one at this time in Boston) a couple of night time sport shows and that's the bulk of their programming. Thus no one has really cared DISH no longer carries them.
TWC further sweetens SportsNet LA deal, offers new 6-year terms
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Buy it? Just shut it down, bring the Celtics over to NESN, and flip on NESN Plus when two teams are playing at once.
Something I noticed in the guide since the change to RSN's being in HD most of the day - in the alternate channels, you now can see the pregame and postgame shows for the various leagues. For example, on 440 right now, there is the Fox Sports Wisconsin feed of the Magic and Bucks. From 6:30-7pm you have the pregame and 9:30-10pm is the postgame with a 2 1/2 hour window for the game. It used to be that it was a single 4 hour block for the game, so if you were out of area, you couldn't see the pregame in HD because it was blacked out on the RSN HD feed. Interesting how the programming guide now differentiates the pre and post game slots.
Dish still isn't carrying Houston Astros games and that's not likely to change, says Houston Chronicle:
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/spo...link-viewers-still-without-Astros-7235802.php
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/spo...link-viewers-still-without-Astros-7235802.php
I was saying that because I heard a rumor that DISH was talking to YES Network since COMCAST dropped them it would have been a way to get new customers from Comcast. Unfortunately no deal was done.
My guess (and I have no inside info here) on why they go off at night is because DISH uses that bandwidth to send VOD movies to the hard drives of their Hopper Systems. So this way people without high speed internet can still have VOD... plus for those without fast enough internet still h ave access to a lot of the 4K VOD content DISH offers. This is the only thing I can think of.
This is the most plausible explanation offered yet.... Because otherwise it makes no sense to shut them down for 8 hours every overnight when there are no HD bandwidth needs at those hours...
And it has to be generating extra calls to DISH when re-broadcast sports events/ sports newscasts are being cut off at 3AM ET/ 12 Midnight PT without explanation as people are watching the HD channels and no notice is being given to keep watching the events on the SD channel....
In fact, all the shows (on the 25 RSN networks) get interrupted in progress with an engineering screen message that says the channel is no longer available and is off the air.... Very messy and unnecessary viewer confusion being generated every night....
If Dish is going to have it this way, it definitely would be better to have the slate up where you can actually turn on the channel as opposed to that engineering screen message. And on the slate it could say to turn into the SD version of the channel for programming, just like the setup used to be when the RSN's were in HD only during a live game.
I would love to know the technical reasoning behind why Dish has it setup the way they do. Definitely the geeky side of me.
Totally agree ... This is a big mess and they should clean it up.... DISH is not some small town cable stick with a Mickey Mouse head-end that can't put up appropriate viewer instructions/ slates, etc....
I wish Dish would offer more free VOD events this way, instead of cluttering up the hard drive with nothing but movies that cost extra money.
I also wonder why so many channels have to go "Off-Air" every night, and not only the "most-time" HD RSN feeds. My guess is that Dish uses this time to re-map those feeds to the appropriate channel numbers for that day's events on the out-of-market sports packages. (MLB Extra Innings, NBA League Pass, NHL Center Ice, etc.) I also have no idea why Dish can't technically put a slate on those channels during that time, or remove them from the My Channels list when they are Off-Air so you won't get all of those error (engineering) screens while flipping through the channels.
i too wish something would be done so we can have our rsns 24/7 scott said that more changes are going to be happening real soon.i wish dish would add the rest of our rsns that fox sports,root sports,comcast sportsnet,yes,sny
very interesting and cool at the same time.Amazing! Root Sports NW is in HD at 9:42AM!
