Out-of-market ads on NESN Plus and TBS

[PaulRAnderson]

I live in New Hampshire and my cable system is Charter from Pepperell MA. The other night, when NESN had the Bruins and the Red Sox were sent to NESN Plus, all the ads on NESN Plus during local breaks were for Connecticut businesses such as the Farmington Savings Bank and an auto dealer with stores in and near New Haven.

Then, last night during the American League tiebreaker game on TBS, on comes an ad for "Fox 6", the Fox affiliate for Springfield (subchannel of WGGB).

This is the first time I've seen out-of-market ads on cable stations. Would the mistake be the cable company's?

Paul

 

[KML0224]

You have Charter and this happened? Did they make a deal with Comcast of New Britain or Hartford? Ha ha! I don't think we ever get the NESN Plus feed here. On occasion, MSG would be placed over C-SPAN temporarily to show Knicks or Rangers games. Now that NESN, YES and SNY are off of expanded basic, I don't know what will happen here.

 

[MarcB]

You have Charter and this happened? Did they make a deal with Comcast of New Britain or Hartford? Ha ha! I don't think we ever get the NESN Plus feed here. On occasion, MSG would be placed over C-SPAN temporarily to show Knicks or Rangers games. Now that NESN, YES and SNY are off of expanded basic, I don't know what will happen here.

NESN Plus SD feed is on digital channel 81 on Comcast of Central Connecticut.

 

[RonTheEngineer]

I live in New Hampshire and my cable system is Charter from Pepperell MA. The other night, when NESN had the Bruins and the Red Sox were sent to NESN Plus, all the ads on NESN Plus during local breaks were for Connecticut businesses such as the Farmington Savings Bank and an auto dealer with stores in and near New Haven.

Then, last night during the American League tiebreaker game on TBS, on comes an ad for "Fox 6", the Fox affiliate for Springfield (subchannel of WGGB).

This is the first time I've seen out-of-market ads on cable stations. Would the mistake be the cable company's?

Paul

They probably had a problem with their own feed of NESN Plus, so they picked it up from the Comcast interlink, rather than send you a blank channel.

Comcast plopped down some serious cash to interconnect every Comcast system, with spurs to every other system in CT, and probably have connectivity and did the same in MA, NH and so on. This is to give the customer the best quality signal... for years, Valley/Telemedia/Comcast-Seymour was the receive site for the NYC stations on ALL systems in CT.

 

[Bill_W]

I live in New Hampshire and my cable system is Charter from Pepperell MA. The other night, when NESN had the Bruins and the Red Sox were sent to NESN Plus, all the ads on NESN Plus during local breaks were for Connecticut businesses such as the Farmington Savings Bank and an auto dealer with stores in and near New Haven.

Then, last night during the American League tiebreaker game on TBS, on comes an ad for "Fox 6", the Fox affiliate for Springfield (subchannel of WGGB).

This is the first time I've seen out-of-market ads on cable stations. Would the mistake be the cable company's?

Paul

They probably had a problem with their own feed of NESN Plus, so they picked it up from the Comcast interlink, rather than send you a blank channel.

Comcast plopped down some serious cash to interconnect every Comcast system, with spurs to every other system in CT, and probably have connectivity and did the same in MA, NH and so on. This is to give the customer the best quality signal... for years, Valley/Telemedia/Comcast-Seymour was the receive site for the NYC stations on ALL systems in CT.

This is like what we have down hwere in the Philly area. All the Comcast headends are connected with a fiber ring now. I think most of the programming comes from a super head end down in DE now instead of every headend receiving it directly from the satellite. Our local commercials are insearted locally I think.

 

[RonTheEngineer]

This is like what we have down hwere in the Philly area. All the Comcast headends are connected with a fiber ring now. I think most of the programming comes from a super head end down in DE now instead of every headend receiving it directly from the satellite. Our local commercials are insearted locally I think.

Well each head end contributes something usually, that way they dont have a single point of failure. And yep, usually local insertion.

 

[compubit]

On "benefit" to Comcast (and the other interconnected systems) is that if they don't transmit signals over satellite, they don't have to offer them to competing providers (aka Dish or DirecTV). Comcast Sports Net Philly isn't available on sat (terrestrial distribution) and thus not sat providers, but Comcast Sports Net Chicago is available to Dish/Direct...

 

[necrat123]

All the cable players in Southern New England are all fiber connected.
Comcast - Charter - Cox - Time Warner....

I've seen first hand some of the big fiber hand offs in Springfield, it's amazing how it's all interconnected.

And KML, Charter has cable plants in Connecticut. Winstead, CT is Charter.
It's possible the NESN Plus feed the original poster was watching was from the Winstead plant., and it changed to the Chicopee plant (hence the WGGB 40.2 spot).