 gar187erI do this for a living
join:2006-06-24
Dover, DE
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Re: pot meet kettle said by espaeth:said by gar187er:if thats the case, cable cos should have access to the sunday ticket.... The cable companies had a crack at Sunday Ticket, but they didn't bid high enough for the NFL to grant them access. Also, it's the NFL who owns the game broadcast rights who is interested in keeping access to Sunday Ticket somewhat limited so that it doesn't erode the value of their local market broadcast contracts. and guess what?!?! comcast has the rights to comcast sportsnet! so they should be able to dictate who can broadcast it |
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
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1 edit | said by gar187er:and guess what?!?! comcast has the rights to comcast sportsnet! so they should be able to dictate who can broadcast it Each team franchise negotiates their TV broadcast rights for their local market. There are really only 2 places in the country that this dispute is taking place:
New York -- The Dolan family owns CableVision, the Madison Square Garden Building, MSG Broadcast networks, and they own the Knicks (NBA) and Rangers (NHL) sports teams.
MSG has expanded to regional coverage including NJ and upstate NY, so they actually distribute the SD version of their channel relatively fairly, but they have been keeping close distribution of their HD channel to CableVision and cable providers who don't have a competing service footprint.
Philadelphia -- In the case of Comcast SportsNet Philly, the channel is owned 66% by Comcast and 33% by the Phillies MLB team. Comcast owns the Flyers (NHL) and 76ers (NBA), so with all 3 franchises having a financial stake in Comcast SportsNet Philly obviously they all have exclusive carriage with just that network.
So you have cable companies that own sports teams that in turn develop exclusive broadcast contracts on the sports network owned by the same parent company. |
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| But that's the issue. They don't have exclusive contracts. MSG and MSG+ are sold to Comcast, TWC, RCN and even DirecTV.
CSN Philly is sold to RCN and FiOS.
If both companies had refused to sell to anyone, they'd have a much better case for withholding the channels. |
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