| Comcast court threat leverage against DirecTV NFL deal Comcast has at least a 50% chance of beating the FCC in court. But they do need FCC & DOJ approvals to takeover NBC. So I bet they will leverage the court threats to get some kind of deal.
End result: DOJ pressures NFL/DirecTV to open up NFL Sunday Ticket to cable under anti-trust threats to NFL and cable agrees to open up local team access to DirecTV. After all congresscritters and the DOJ pressured cable to let the NFL Network get on std tiers instead of extra cost sports tiers. So, they owe cable a deal.
And Cohen is the guy to make it happen since he has access to all the high end Dem politicians and has been a big Dem party power for a long time.
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| said by fAcEtIOUs:Comcast has at least a 50% chance of beating the FCC in court. But they do need FCC & DOJ approvals to takeover NBC. So I bet they will leverage the court threats to get some kind of deal. End result: DOJ pressures NFL/DirecTV to open up NFL Sunday Ticket to cable under anti-trust threats to NFL and cable agrees to open up local team access to DirecTV. After all congresscritters and the DOJ pressured cable to let the NFL Network get on std tiers instead of extra cost sports tiers. So, they owe cable a deal. And Cohen is the guy to make it happen since he has access to all the high end Dem politicians and has been a big Dem party power for a long time. Where do they hope to get the bandwith for NFL ST from??
indemand has 4 HD channels but only 2 can be live at one time? and some comcast systems don't even have 1 of them yet. |
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indemand has 4 HD channels but only 2 can be live at one time? and some comcast systems don't even have 1 of them yet.
For $315 per subscriber (and I don't know if that price includes SuperFan for HD)...Comcast will find the bandwidth. Seriously that is like $18.00 per WEEK. This is nearly as much as the MLB, NBA, and NHL combined. WOW! |
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It will be a cold day in **** before that happens.
Comparing NFL Sunday Ticket to a regional Sports Network is so laughable, I can't see how you could write that with a straight face.
#1 - the RIGHTS to NFL Sunday Ticket are held by the NFL - not DirectTv. DirectTv OUTBID all other competition (including Comcast, etc.) for EXCLUSIVE rights to transmit them.
#2 - You can bet if the tables were reversed - Comcast would be SCREAMING UNFAIR COMPETITION. Well - it, just the same. Comcast, by keeping these away from the DBS providers, is doing UNFAIR COMPETITION by withholding the subscribers from watching their LOCAL teams on somebody besides COMCAST.
You can observe the effects of this where in the Philly area, DBS penetration is significantly lower than other major metropolitan areas. And this can be pointed directly due to the fact that the Philadelphia Pro sports teams are only available on Comcast. |
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comcast offered a bunch of money for sunday ticket when it was up for renewal a few years back then directv upped their price and comcast decided to let directv win the bid for sunday ticket. So how can comcast complain that they now are unfairly treated by the nfl? They had their chance and balked at the price so it's their fault.
Meanwhile directv and dish haven't ever had the chance to get comcast sports philadelphia because spectrum and now comcast have used this loophole to keep it from satellite systems.
I see comcast losing and directv winning. Maybe the nfl will be forced to allow cable companies to distribute sunday ticket but they will see that no one wants to pay $400 a year plus $100 for hd. |
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