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Re: Comcast Sports Nets

Well, it looks like this is how DirecTV has decided how to handle the additional cost of carrying TWC's SportsNet:

DirecTV adds local sports surcharge for some new subscribers
By Joe Flint, The Los Angeles Times - December 10, 2012
»www.latimes.com/entertai ··· 76.story
Satellite broadcaster DirecTV has quietly added a surcharge to some customers for sports channels separately on several of its most popular programming packages.

New DirecTV subscribers who live in areas where there are more than one regional sports network (Los Angeles has four -- News Corp.'s Prime Ticket and Fox Sports West and Time Warner Cable's SportsNet and Deportes) and want those channels are being asked to pay a monthly surcharge of $3. That fee is on top of whatever portion of the costs of the channels DirecTV passes on to its customers.
EDIT: Also an article on the Multichannel News site: »www.multichannel.com/dis ··· e/140662
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FYI - There is news today that DirecTV is considering dropping its exclusive contract with the NFL for the Sunday Ticket package when it next expires in 2015:

DirecTV floats possibility of sharing NFL Sunday Ticket rights with cable operators
By Steve Donohue, FierceCable - March 7, 2013
»www.fiercecable.com/stor ··· 13-03-07