Tonight will be the last day for Comcast subscribers to view the NFL Network. If it wasn’t hard enough to find this thing–this might do it in.
If the two sides cannot come to an agreement today the NFL Network will lose a great deal of viewership. Comcast is the largest cable company in the nation and losing their business does not bode well for the fledgling NFL Network.
The sides have been at war for months after Comcast moved it to a premium sports tier that has fewer viewers than the digital TV package where the NFL Network wanted to be.
This began a he said, she said war of words. Comcast says it put the NFL Network in the premium package because of the high costs of carrying the channel. While the NFL Network says Comcast is retaliating for not getting the right to air NFL games on the Comcast owned Versus channel.
Comcast definitely has the upper hand here. The NFL Network needs to work something out to be offered by the largest provider in the country. The NFL should drop the per subscriber rate that Comcast must pay to carry the channel. This would force Comcast to either pick them up or go against the original reason Comcast said they would not carry the network.
Thank you for your email concerning the NFL Network. Comcast is passionate about bringing our customers the best in sports programming, and we want to continue to carry the NFL Network on terms that are fair to our customers—NFL super-fans and non-fans alike.
Sometimes, no matter how hard two parties work toward an agreement, the result is an impasse. Presently that’s where we find ourselves with the NFL Network. We’ve offered to continue to carry the programming under the same terms the NFL agreed to in a contract that the network signed with us. The NFL has refused. Why? We’re asking the same question.
Comcast offers NFL Network on our sports entertainment tier. This is the fairest way to offer NFL Network’s expensive programming: Viewers who want the network can see it. Viewers who don’t are not forced to pay the NFL’s high costs.
NFL Network provides only eight live regular season games a year, but charges consumers one of the highest fees of any national cable network. We want to carry the network in an appropriate manner, and believe that is on our sports and entertainment tier.
We have reached hundreds of agreements with other networks in the interest of our customers. We hope that the NFL will put the interest of its fans, and all of our customers first, and allow us to continue the programming by renewing the contract, so there will be no interruption to you and other NFL super-fans.
If you go on NFL.com and click on I WANT NFL NETWORK, VOICE YOUR OPINION you can send comcast an email saying you would like to keep it. I did that and the above is comcast’s response.
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Oh no, I hope “Kickin it with Kevin” doesn’t have Comcast Cable… he won’t know what to do with himself.
I have directtv. NFL ticket baby.
Also comcasts above email is bull. They pay 10 times more for ESPN2 than NFL network.
That is ridiculous… I’m going to have to go to a bar than to watch games on the NFL network if a team I like is on that night…
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