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New Developments on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia/Satellite saga?

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On program access, the Stevens bill would immediately close the so-called terrestrial loophole, which allows cable operators to withhold terrestrially delivered affiliated program from competing pay-TV distributors. That provision is aimed at forcing Comcast Corp. to sell SportsNet Philadelphia to competitors.Stevens would also allow satellite carriers to file FCC complaints to gain access to regional sports programming not owned by cable operators but distributed exclusively by undefined "dominant" cable operators. But, in a change made to the first Stevens bill, cable operators could not demand access to NFL Sunday Ticket, to which DirecTV Inc. has exclusive rights.
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More info: [url]http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6342816.html?display=S earch+Results&text=SportsNet[/url] Senator Ted Stevens is holding a hearing Tuesday 6/13 on his Communications, Consumer's Choice and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006. Watch for it if it comes on any of the 3 C-SPAN networks or http://www.c-span.org Thoughts?
 
From www.c-span.org :
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), chairs the third Commerce Cmte. hearing of S. 2686, the Communications, Consumers' Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006. Last Thursday, the House passed H.R. 5252, a cable-franchise bill that allows telephone companies to enter the cable market.
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The Hearing will take place at 10 AM EDT today on C-SPAN 3
 
Great catch, Julius! ;)The BIG story on Action News.
 
I thought Comcast was not sole owner of Comcast SportsNet. I was told that Spectacor was majority owner, with employees being on Spectacor payroll and insurance benefits (with whatever health care provider they use). I was to understand that Comcast owned less than half of the station. Perhaps I'm wrong.
 
Shawn O'Domski said:
I thought Comcast was not sole owner of Comcast SportsNet. I was told that Spectacor was majority owner, with employees being on Spectacor payroll and insurance benefits (with whatever health care provider they use). I was to understand that Comcast owned less than half of the station. Perhaps I'm wrong.
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The Company [Comcast] has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectator, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.Comcast-Spectator owns majority of Comcast Sports Net Philadelphia, while the Phillies own a minority share as well.Simply put - the channel is controlled and majority owned by Comcast.
 
rch66 said:
The Company [Comcast] has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectator, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.Comcast-Spectator owns majority of Comcast Sports Net Philadelphia, while the Phillies own a minority share as well.Simply put - the channel is controlled and majority owned by Comcast.
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It's strange the Phillies, Flyers and Sixers go along with Comcast keeping CSN off satellite. It cuts into viewers, erodes the fan interest and decreases revenue. It's a dumb move but that's what happens when people let their kids run the company.
 
It really doesn't make sense.You would expect them to want it as they could make some money from people who live out of the area but were from the area and moved.
 
Nertz! said:
It really doesn't make sense.You would expect them to want it as they could make some money from people who live out of the area but were from the area and moved.
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No, it doesn't.It was a spiteful and anti-competitive move against satellite TV providers. Now, something like seven years later, Comcast is too instransigent to reverse themselves. However, competition from satellite is the best thing that ever happened to cable. It forced them to upgrade their service, to add channels and digital capabilities, to offer digital channels, Internet access and phone service and other new featurers. This has allowed Comcast to increase their revenue per customer without major rate increases (and people who pay more for extra services don't start writing their congressman). Keeping CSN (and Philly teams) off satellite hurts the local sports franchises, not only because they lose access to out of market viewers but because they lose access to in market viewers - and they lose the subscriber fees of all local satellite TV viewers - and they lose the TV ad revenue that would come with all those extra satellite viewers.This is what happens when you let your idiot kid run the company.
 
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