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Jmartz

join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ

reply to BosstonesOwn
Double Standard!

What a bunch of crap. Your rates are going to go up no matter what. The Cable companies are just setting up the scape goat to instantly raise prices the day the merger is approved.

Cablevision, through Rainbow networks owns tons of channels as well. They also own a delivery system. So what are they complaining about? Oh wait! Competition!

Same goes with Comcast... who is already bullying DirecTV by not allowing DirecTV customers in Philadelphia to get the Comcast Sports Network because they hold the sole rights to one of the local sports teams broadcasts... so they are playing hard ball with DirecTV... god forbid someone does it to them!!
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djoropallo

join:2003-10-20
Maple Shade, NJ

I was so happy when I changed from Comcast to DirecTV. Comcast took over our town's cable system, promised no rate hikes and yet our prices went through the roof! They had to "bring us inline" with their normal rates. We we paying $43/mo for cable WITH HBO. Comcast comes in and just their expanded basic is $43/mo., then $17 for HBO and $4.20 for any set I wanted to watch HBO on, because I would need their box. Now I am 100% digital at a much lower price.
The biggest hold Comcast has down here is Comcast Sports Net, which carries the Sixers, Flyers and Phillies. Somehow a "loophole" remains where they don't have to put their signal on a satellite. When Cablevision wouldn't carry the YES network a new law went in and they had to settle. Yet Comcast, who has Arlen Spector in their pocket, doesn't have to comply. I don't like being bullied so I no longer watch or root for any of those teams. Screw Comcast, big bullying thieves!
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