ESPNU finally arrives on comcast cable in philly

[Jul]

Its on digital channel 730

 

[oasisrulz]

But still no GSN on the CC-SP-SWP system....Did anyone notice in the city, the tax is around $6.45 for two digital outlets..Digital Preferred,.one outlet $77.20, additional outlet $8.90.... City surcharges and Fees $6.45... note: the FCC Fee is only 7cents of this tax, the rest is from the Crooked, Democratic Losers like Councilman James Kenney the thief....My buddie in Jersey pays around 55 cents for the same service and I would imagine the PA and DE burbs pay around the same as Jersey....

 

[bsquared11]

What took Comcast so long? I have had ESPNU since 2005 on DirecTV in the Philly market, 4 1/2 years ahead of Comcast. Another reason why DirectTV has the best national sports offerings of any cable/satellite provider. Now, if we could only get Comcast to put CSN-Philadelphia on satellite, instead of hiding behind the flimsy 1992 Telecommunications loophole, and stop the hypocrisy because they put CSN in Boston, Balt.-Wash., Chicago, Bay Area and Calf. on satellite, but continue to "carve out" Phila. The company continues to tell sports fans living in Philadelphia that they are "morons" and not capable of deciding how they want television delivered into their homes as we approach the second decade of the 21st century. And, if you won't put it on satellite, then sell it to us for the same $1.70 subscriber fee you get from the satellite companies for each CSN subscriber they have. Don't make someone buy expanded basic cable.

 

[oasisrulz]

Philly Crapcast will never do it with the likes of Big Shot Cohen and his Croney Rabbi Rendell, two typical Dem crooks....

 

[bsquared11]

Oasisrulz you are right. David Cohen testified in Wash., D.C. 2007 against putting CSN in Phila. on satellite, and the FCC went along for the ride and issued the "carve out.". They have so much (lobbying) money that the average person can not even attempt to make it happen. The folks at the U. of Penn Board of Trustees, the Phila. Chamber of Commerce and his law firm ought to know that this man only cares about himself and his cronies, such as the gov, NOT Comcast customers.

I'll continue to preach this: Comcast is repeatedly telling educated sports fans in Philadelphia that they are "morons" and not capable of deciding how they want television delivered into their household as we approach the second decade of the 21st century, if they don't play by Comcast's rules only in the Phila. market when it comes to CSN and satellite transmission.

 

[Bill_W]

When Comcast was having the issue with MASN down in the DC area and didn't carry MASN on Comcast, this would have been the time for the lawmakers in DC to tell Comcast that they had to play ball with DirecTv and Dish. The lawmakers only cared that they couldn't see the Nats or Os on cable TV in DC. They weren't caring on what was going on up here in Philly. It was Congress that got MASN on Comcast.

 

[bsquared11]

Bill W., with all due respect, Phila/Comcast was on the FCC's minds in '07 during the MASN fiasco. Miriam Hill of the Inquirer covered the hearing when Cohen testified. The FCC voted to "carve out" Phila from forcing Comcast to offer the CSN programming to satellite, and even the dissenting FCC voters couldn't understand why, considering CSN is on satellite in the five other non-Phila markets I mentioned, and I can watch those CSN's in HD at my home in the Phila market on satellite, but not the CSN in my local market. Approaching 2010, that makes zero sense, especially because they provided it to Verizon's FIOS TV product.

You are right, this has to be done at the federal level, and Comcast has all the lobbying power and Cohen leading the way protected by his powerful cronies. Why should sports fans in Phila. market be penalized because the company makes its corporate headquarters here?

It's (not so) funny, when CSN-Chicago went to satellite at the beginning of the decade, SN founder Jack Williams said in an Inquirer article it was because of a "geography issue" considering how big "Chicagoland" is, and the entire midwest region it covers to transmit digitally. Phila CSN goes to 37 counties in 3 states, that's not big geographically? And approaching 2010 it's still being terrestrially transmitted? Convenient to hide behind to get off the hook having to offer it to satellite, but it makes no sense. And, doesn't Comcast think there is a money to be made for all of those transplanted Philadelphia sports fans no longer living in the market?

 

[Jul]

Bill W., with all due respect, Phila/Comcast was on the FCC's minds in '07 during the MASN fiasco. Miriam Hill of the Inquirer covered the hearing when Cohen testified. The FCC voted to "carve out" Phila from forcing Comcast to offer the CSN programming to satellite, and even the dissenting FCC voters couldn't understand why, considering CSN is on satellite in the five other non-Phila markets I mentioned, and I can watch those CSN's in HD at my home in the Phila market on satellite, but not the CSN in my local market. Approaching 2010, that makes zero sense, especially because they provided it to Verizon's FIOS TV product.

You are right, this has to be done at the federal level, and Comcast has all the lobbying power and Cohen leading the way protected by his powerful cronies. Why should sports fans in Phila. market be penalized because the company makes its corporate headquarters here?

It's (not so) funny, when CSN-Chicago went to satellite at the beginning of the decade, SN founder Jack Williams said in an Inquirer article it was because of a "geography issue" considering how big "Chicagoland" is, and the entire midwest region it covers to transmit digitally. Phila CSN goes to 37 counties in 3 states, that's not big geographically? And approaching 2010 it's still being terrestrially transmitted? Convenient to hide behind to get off the hook having to offer it to satellite, but it makes no sense. And, doesn't Comcast think there is a money to be made for all of those transplanted Philadelphia sports fans no longer living in the market?

Don't forget that The Comcast Network doesn't air on the dish ether.