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NBCSN shutting down end of 2021

CTListener said:
Boston's regional Comcast/NBC network is hanging on by a thread. The only pro franchises it has are the Celtics and MLS Revolution; the Red Sox and Bruins are on NESN and Patriots preseason games are on WBZ-TV, a CBS affiliate. Boston may be America's worst college sports market, so pretty much every college football or basketball game the network picks up is "who cares" material, strictly for alumni. Thus, from the end of the NBA regular season to the beginning of the next, it shows endless hours of pure filler.
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They have a shoe string budget too. The only thing they really have for content are the radio simulcasts.
 
CTListener said:
Boston's regional Comcast/NBC network is hanging on by a thread. The only pro franchises it has are the Celtics and MLS Revolution; the Red Sox and Bruins are on NESN and Patriots preseason games are on WBZ-TV, a CBS affiliate. Boston may be America's worst college sports market, so pretty much every college football or basketball game the network picks up is "who cares" material, strictly for alumni. Thus, from the end of the NBA regular season to the beginning of the next, it shows endless hours of pure filler.
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Sounds like MASN when it's not baseball season. Yeah you'll get some classic O's or Nats games on occasion, but other than that it's infomercials, old UFC matches, and horse racing.
 
12/31/2021 is now also the final day for ESPN Classic. Another channel spot Cable Companies (Dish & Direct also?) will have to replace or delete on their own.
 
I just spent 4 days at a The Alloy Double Tree Hotel in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. They use Direct TV. CBS Sports Network was on Channel 43 even though the Electronic Program Guide had it listed as MTV with MTV's programming listed. I wonder if the hotel will move CBS Sports Network into the Channel position NBC Sports Network currently occupies.

I also wonder if COX Cable where I live will put something else on Channel 93 when NBC Sports Network shuts down.
 
MarcB said:
I just spent 4 days at a The Alloy Double Tree Hotel in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. They use Direct TV. CBS Sports Network was on Channel 43 even though the Electronic Program Guide had it listed as MTV with MTV's programming listed. I wonder if the hotel will move CBS Sports Network into the Channel position NBC Sports Network currently occupies.

I also wonder if COX Cable where I live will put something else on Channel 93 when NBC Sports Network shuts down.
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93 will probably just be a skipped channel.
 
MarcB said:
I just spent 4 days at a The Alloy Double Tree Hotel in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. They use Direct TV. CBS Sports Network was on Channel 43 even though the Electronic Program Guide had it listed as MTV with MTV's programming listed. I wonder if the hotel will move CBS Sports Network into the Channel position NBC Sports Network currently occupies.

I also wonder if COX Cable where I live will put something else on Channel 93 when NBC Sports Network shuts down.
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Possibly the Olympic Channel, at least through the Beijing Winter Olympics (if COX carries it somewhere else)? I thought NBC would wait until after the Beijing Winter Olympics to shut down NBCSN.
 
ftballfan said:
Possibly the Olympic Channel, at least through the Beijing Winter Olympics (if COX carries it somewhere else)? I thought NBC would wait until after the Beijing Winter Olympics to shut down NBCSN.
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I never understood the point of Olympic Channel. Unless that was part of their contract with the IOC.
 
Don CT said:
I never understood the point of Olympic Channel. Unless that was part of their contract with the IOC.
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The Olympic Channel includes a lot of sports that have very limited to nonexistent coverage on more mainstream channels. My wife enjoys all the figure skating programming.
 
MarcB said:
I just spent 4 days at a The Alloy Double Tree Hotel in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. They use Direct TV. CBS Sports Network was on Channel 43 even though the Electronic Program Guide had it listed as MTV with MTV's programming listed. I wonder if the hotel will move CBS Sports Network into the Channel position NBC Sports Network currently occupies.

I also wonder if COX Cable where I live will put something else on Channel 93 when NBC Sports Network shuts down.
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If Cox Cable has newer receivers that pick up Peacock app for NBC Sports and NBC Entertainment programming?

I know with Comcast theres a huge push to hype up Peacock on their X1 devices and now SmartTV's with the Xfinity label
 
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