Your anger is muisguided...the fault does not lie with MSG/FSNY..Those channels still carry viable spoorts programming..Unless of course all you care about it baseball....E* isn't screwing anyone..They are making a business( IMO a bad one)decision.....Cablevions OWNS FSNY and MSG....They can do as they wish.Besides that hasd nothing to do with this Cablevision has added SNY to their lineup.....If you want to see Mets games, get cable....Scottie318 said:
SportsNet New York, Now Available!
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They were having an interesting discussion on WFAN today. They were saying how there are only about four cities in the country where baseball is more important than football : New York, Boston, St. Louis and Los Angeles. They mentioned Chicago, but said the Bears are really big, too.
So leave it to the brilliant minds at Dish Network to not have any local baseball on in the biggest baseball market in America. This is just a dumb business decision by a Denver based company that has no idea how the NY market works. They will lose lots of business if they carry neither NY team. Not carrying the Yankees is bad enough, but not carrying the Mets also is ridculous.
I also can say all this objectively, because I have Dish Network, but I also have Cablevision so I am seeing all my Met games. I am just here supporting my fellow Met fans who are being deprived of seeing their team. Bad decision for the fans and for Dish Network, too.
So leave it to the brilliant minds at Dish Network to not have any local baseball on in the biggest baseball market in America. This is just a dumb business decision by a Denver based company that has no idea how the NY market works. They will lose lots of business if they carry neither NY team. Not carrying the Yankees is bad enough, but not carrying the Mets also is ridculous.
I also can say all this objectively, because I have Dish Network, but I also have Cablevision so I am seeing all my Met games. I am just here supporting my fellow Met fans who are being deprived of seeing their team. Bad decision for the fans and for Dish Network, too.
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What about us stockholders? As a publicly held company don’t they owe it to investors to make smart business decisions? I see now why Ergan went from top 10 to 30 something on the Forbes 500!
SNY NOW!!!
SNY NOW!!!
By the way, not official, but this was posted here :
Directv Agrees to Broadcast Sportsnet New York, Channel 625 [General] - admin - malsbergtalk@hotmail.com @ 01:11 PM
Sources have informed mikefrancesa.com that the deal will be announced Friday. The new channel will be located on 625. If you are a Mets fan and don’t have Directv or Cablevision, you should worry. I’m hearing Dish Network will not carry Sports net NY.
http://mikefrancesa.com/v-web/b2/index.php
Directv Agrees to Broadcast Sportsnet New York, Channel 625 [General] - admin - malsbergtalk@hotmail.com @ 01:11 PM
Sources have informed mikefrancesa.com that the deal will be announced Friday. The new channel will be located on 625. If you are a Mets fan and don’t have Directv or Cablevision, you should worry. I’m hearing Dish Network will not carry Sports net NY.
http://mikefrancesa.com/v-web/b2/index.php
If this is the way it falls out (SNY on DTV, not on Dish) then too bad for all the Dish customers on Long Island (there are many). Those who currently have Dish are more than likely Met fans or not fans of baseball at all since those who watch the Yankees switched to DTV years ago. I just switched to DTV last week from Dish betting that Dish was never going to go for the Mets. The retention department didn't want to give up my $100/mo. for the last six years and couldn't accept that the only reason I was leaving was for the Mets. DTV has been great and I am looking forward to some good ball. Those who are stuck in a Dish committment will not be happy.
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jrbdmb said:
Apparently, several people are reporting over on the D* list that in their EPG the info for channel 625 now says SNY and "Upcoming: Naitionals at Mets." Can't confirm this as i am at work. They must be getting close with D*. However, I was also reading that E* has uplinked SNY on to channel 438, so E* may not be left out in the cold. Of course, we will have to wait and see.
FIOS has a SNY deal, Cablevision has a deal, Direct TV on the verge of a deal, Dish even settled in Ohio. Why cant we get this channel? This is one CHEEP billionaire we are dealing with here. Its not like this service is any less that the others any more (I’ve been looking). I just don’t get this guy!
