wth
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join:2002-02-20
Iowa City, IA | [Cable TV] Mediacom & Big Ten Network 3 Weeks To Go. Yes or No
First Iowa football game and five other BTN games televised 8/30. Need to get this settled one way or the other in 21 days, since Mediacom will need a couple of days to feed this into all the headends & channel guides, if they step up to the plate. |
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drslash
Goya Asma
Premium
join:2002-02-18
Marion, IA
| Re: [Cable TV] Mediacom & Big Ten Network 3 Weeks To Go. Yes or
Thumbs down on the BTN!
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acoustix
join:2004-01-30
Fort Dodge, IA
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I called Mediacom repeatedly over the winter, spring and summer and told them that they had until Aug 1st to announce carrying the BTN or I was leaving. I ordered DirecTV service on the evening of July 31st and will be canceling my Mediacom service.
Thanks for not listening to the majority of your customers, Mediacom. |
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drslash
Goya Asma
Premium
join:2002-02-18
Marion, IA
| said by acoustix  :I called Mediacom repeatedly over the winter, spring and summer and told them that they had until Aug 1st to announce carrying the BTN or I was leaving. I ordered DirecTV service on the evening of July 31st and will be canceling my Mediacom service. Thanks for not listening to the majority of your customers, Mediacom. Do you have a survey of Mediacom customers that confirms your assertion? I don't have one but I would be very surprised if a majority favors carrying the BTN if there is a price increase.
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cfossy
join:2007-04-05
Ottumwa, IA | I have nothing against them carrying the BTN IF and only IF they put it into some kind of sports package where the people that don't care to have it don't have to pay for it. |
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Barnstormer
join:2007-12-12
Waverly, IA | reply to wth
Put it on a sports tier.. I will still buy it, but give me the choice.
If it was the Big 12 Network I would be so upset if I was forced to pay for it. Stupid Big 12.  |
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ThaDark1
Don't Blame Me. I Voted For Pedro
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join:2003-09-08
Newton, IA
 ·Iowa Telecom
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Hey be glad all you're missing is the BTN. DISH just removed WOI (Channel 5 ABC) due to WOI demanding too much money. So now I'm without ABC which has ALOT of shows the wife and I watch. I'm far from happy!
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wth
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join:2002-02-20
Iowa City, IA
·Mediacom
| said by ThaDark1 :DISH just removed WOI (Channel 5 ABC) due to WOI demanding too much money. So now I'm without ABC which has ALOT of shows the wife and I watch. I'm far from happy! Same thing happened to WHBF (CBS) in the Quad Cities, by the same station owner also. |
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ThaDark1
Don't Blame Me. I Voted For Pedro
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join:2003-09-08
Newton, IA
·Iowa Telecom
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| said by wth :Same thing happened to WHBF (CBS) in the Quad Cities, by the same station owner also. Yep. It was a few stations actually. I'm quite ticked. DISH could at least put up an ABC feed from somewhere else couldn't they? While we wait for WOI, etc. to wake up.
Stations that were removed are:WOI-TV Des Moines Iowa; ABC affiliate KCAU-TV Sioux City, Iowa; ABC affiliate KLKN-TV Lincoln, Neb.; and CBS affiliate WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities
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Anonymous
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join:2004-06-01
IA
·Mediacom
| Nope.
Stupid regulations. The company, Citadel Communications I think, has the transmission rights to ABC in those areas. That's why Mediacom could not feed FOX in Des Moines, IA from somewhere else because Sinclair had the exclusive rights in the area.
A lot of people switched and Mediacom was forced to pay more money. Sinclair started it and now all of them will follow. Get ready to pay a lot more for otherwise free programming. I guess that's the price of convenience... |
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burner50
Pinlifter
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join:2002-06-05
EN22wm
·Mediacom
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said by acoustix :Thanks for not listening to the majority of your customers, Mediacom. Actually they are listening to the majority of their customers.
Mediacom screwed up when they allowed Sinclair to push them around. BTN Knows they have no balls. i think mediacom will cave at the last minute. |
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The Glove_
@mchsi.com
| If mediacom caves then I will be ticked. That is why the US doesn't negotiate with terrorist. It will just keep happening again and again..
If the Big10 would shut up and put their product were it belongs then everyone wins. Then the Big12 puts there station on the same way. If I had to pay extra money on the basic plan for a conference I don't like then I am going to be upset. |
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OldCableGuy
@ncs.com
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Mediacom had little if any option regarding Sinclair. Remember, KGAN was carrying the super bowl and is a Sinclair station in Cedar Rapids. There would have been mass customers moving to Dish / Direct had they not caved the day before. I remember Mediacom was giving out free rabbit ears and also free pizzas to customers who wanted to eat in a bar where the game was being shown. |
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burner50
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EN22wm
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| said by OldCableGuy :
Mediacom had little if any option regarding Sinclair. Remember, KGAN was carrying the super bowl and is a Sinclair station in Cedar Rapids. There would have been mass customers moving to Dish / Direct had they not caved the day before. I remember Mediacom was giving out free rabbit ears and also free pizzas to customers who wanted to eat in a bar where the game was being shown.
Remember that KGAN was a small portion of the dispute.
In my area it was a FOX station, In others it was ABC.
I WISH mediacom had stood up to sinclair and held out past the super bowl, if they had we may not even be in this mess with BTN. |
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OldCableGuy
@planetcr.com | KGAN is one of their biggest markets. Most of the other rural markets like DSM and the like it was my understanding that they were able to pipe in other stations. Not so in Cedar Rapids... |
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burner50
Pinlifter
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EN22wm
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| no, they were not able to pipe in another station...
And KGAN is not their biggest market.
Des Moines and surrounding areas is Mediacom's bread and butter, their largest market.
As I said before KGAN was a small portion of the dispute. Overall there was 22 channel affectin MILLION of subscribers nationwide. Not all of them had lost CBS |
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garn91
join:2005-01-15
Ankeny, IA
1 edit | reply to wth
I think a deal will get done, probably something similar to the Comcast Deal. Verizon's FiOS and Midcontinent in Sioux Falls, a small cable co. serving the Dakota's and western Minnestoa, inked a deal for the BTN yesterday or today.
said by Anonymous :Nope. Stupid regulations. The company, Citadel Communications I think, has the transmission rights to ABC in those areas. That's why Mediacom could not feed FOX in Des Moines, IA from somewhere else because Sinclair had the exclusive rights in the area. A lot of people switched and Mediacom was forced to pay more money. Sinclair started it and now all of them will follow. Get ready to pay a lot more for otherwise free programming. I guess that's the price of convenience... Dish Network in a programming dispute isn't earth shattering news, Charlie Ergen, Dish Network's CEO, is a major league cheap skate. |
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wth
Premium
join:2002-02-20
Iowa City, IA
·Mediacom
| said by garn91 :I think a deal will get done, probably something similar to the Comcast Deal. Verizon's FiOS and Midcontinent in Sioux Falls, a small cable co. serving the Dakota's and western Minnestoa, inked a deal for the BTN yesterday or today. said by Anonymous :Nope. Stupid regulations. The company, Citadel Communications I think, has the transmission rights to ABC in those areas. That's why Mediacom could not feed FOX in Des Moines, IA from somewhere else because Sinclair had the exclusive rights in the area. A lot of people switched and Mediacom was forced to pay more money. Sinclair started it and now all of them will follow. Get ready to pay a lot more for otherwise free programming. I guess that's the price of convenience... Midcontinent Communications will add the sports channel Big Ten Network to its lineup beginning Aug. 15, the company has announced.
»www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dl···304/1001 |
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wth
Premium
join:2002-02-20
Iowa City, IA | reply to wth
Now down to 2 weeks..... |
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wth
Premium
join:2002-02-20
Iowa City, IA | reply to wth
Now down to ONE week, and leaving a couple of days for mediacom to added it into all the headends....IF they signup. |
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