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Big Ten TV Network & Comcast at impasse
(old news - 03:51PM Monday Aug 27 2007)
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The Big Ten Network, a sports junkie's dream, will launch on Thursday. The TV channel dedicated to Big Ten athletics is set to air 35 football games, 105 men's basketball games and 55 women's basketball games in the next year.

Comcast argues the Big Ten Network will have a niche audience, so it should be placed on Comcast's sports tier, also home to the NFL Network and NBA TV. If Comcast stuck it there and you wanted it, you would have to pay for that entire tier of service.

The Big Ten Network wants a home on what's called the extended basic tier of service, which would provide a much, much larger audience. It also wants Comcast to pay $1.10 per customer per month to the network. Comcast says that's way too high.

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CableTool
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Screw them.

BTN wants to be in every single home and have Comcast pass on the bill to all subs, whether they want it or not.

Comcast wants those interested in sports to be able to choose.

All this clammer about ala carte, specialty tiers are the closest thing to Ala Cart. Anyone who wants this most likely already has the Sports Tier anyway.

Everyone is already feeling the effects at the begining of every year of ESPN being in the standard tier. They raise thier cost to the CableCos every single year, which gets passed on to the entire customer base.
Do we really need another channel that everyone has to subsidize? I dont see Comcast making that same mistake again.
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