RSN-HD/sports pack idea

[bradfordj]

For the duration that FOX/MSG have pulled their RSN's from Dish, wouldn't it be nice if Dish gave us the "full time" RSN's in HD from Comcast Sportsnet? Those FOX/MSG RSN's must have opened up some room for HD RSN's from Comcast Sportsnet. I know it's not much, but we're still paying for something that we're not getting. It'd be nice to watch the bay area postgame shows/press conferences in HD.

Your thoughts...

 

[psychotrope]

The problem is that Fox is blacking everything out for out-of-market subscribers to multi-sport pack. Stuff that was always available even to out of market viewers (for example today's UEFA Champions League soccer matches and the majority of FSN's Saturday college football games) is now being blacked out. I think Fox is doing this on purpose to "hurt" Dish Network subscribers who might otherwise not feel the sting of losing their local RSN quite so much, in order to put more pressure on Dish. So Dish can do whatever it wants with Comcast Sportsnet, but any national programming that is re-transmitted from a Fox produced feed to other RSNs will only be available to people who are in that market, and not multi-sport pack subscribers.

 

[Joe The Dragon]

Not only that CSN Chicago is not showing some FSN college football games in market on D* or cable. over the past few weeks FSN games where on CSN + HD and CSN HD. last week on game was on CSN + HD outer market and just JIP on CSN HD. The other market feed was on NOT on D* or comcast.