NFL Network, Big Ten Network and Comcast
I’m a little irritated with the nonsense that’s going on between Comcast Cable and the NFL Network and the Big Ten Network. And so are a lot of people. All three need to sit down and talk this out instead of sending e-mails pointing the finger at each other as to who is to blame…all three of you and your greed are to blame.
NFL & Big Ten, stop trying to charge the cable companies twice the price that they can get ESPN for. Sit down and do some simple math. No subscribers equals no money (for the Big Ten). And I can only speculate how many people have actually added the NFL Network since it was “free” last year and you only need it for a few weeks a year watch the Thursday night games. Being in every house, even at “half price”, is infinitely more revenue for the Big Ten and a nice chunk of change for the NFL Network.
(Sidenote: The NFL is showing games for free on their website, but it’s a little choppy even on a fast connection and there is way too much going on. Plus it’s small and you can resize it. It’s sort of like watching one of the major news channels with all kinds of other items going on around the video. And that’s not very watchable in my opinion. I am glad that they took to effort to do that though.)
Comcast, stop insisting on charging people $5 per month more for something that costs you sixty some cents per month (from the reports). Put it in the standard package and if you must ditch some channels to keep the price “down”, how about moving channels like Court TV and the Golf Channel to some special package add-on?
Anyway, I have no plans of switching to satellite for various reasons. And due to decisions by the politicians in the city years ago (which also got rid of “Public Access” TV), Comcast is my only option for “cable” until the phone service is upgraded in my area. Until then, I can only hope that these guys get it together or that affordable “a la carte cable” actually comes to fruition.
