UFC Looking To Buy Part OF G4 Channel

[stationless listener]

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c...rt-of-g4-channel/?smid=tw-nytimestv&seid=auto

Put this news together with the possible sale of the 76ers, it seems that Comcast is ready to shed some unneeded assets in order to digest better its purchase of NBCU. Could more asset sales be on the offer?

Once again, the UFC takes a few more giant leaps into the American mainstream if they can pull this off. They'd also jump ahead of the WWE to acquire or start a new channel for their content. Amazing that Vince McMahon has yet pull the trigger on getting the WWE on its own channel. I guess the PPV business is too lucrative to give the fans what they really want. Anyway, I'm not a rasslin' fan but making this keen observation.

But back to this news, the word is Viacom has read the writing on the wall and will move to put Bellator over from MTV2 to Spike, starting next year.

 

[KTU_Fan]

Well, anyone can get PPVs as long as they have cable and willing to pay... Cable companies may not carry the WWE Network

 

[DToTheJ]

Pay-per-view... they still have that in the digital cable era? ???

 

[ansky212]

Well, anyone can get PPVs as long as they have cable and willing to pay... Cable companies may not carry the WWE Network

Verizon Fios carries the WWE network @ $7.95/month.

 

[Mario500]

I don't care for G4, especially after their hostile taking of TechTV under the disguise of a merger, and I have no interest in Ultimate Fighting Championship wrestling. I still miss TechTV. Even though I have access to programming from the This Week in Tech Network, including "Leo Laporte the Tech Guy", and other programs such as "The Kim Komando Show" and "Bloomberg West" for technology news and video game news, I wish they were more convenient, as no radio station in my local area broadcasts "Leo Laporte the Tech Guy", "The Kim Komando Show" is broadcast in recorded form between 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM (Central times) every Saturday, and "Bloomberg West" conflicts with my viewing of local and national news programs.

 

[philosofy]

I can't even get G4 on Directv anymore since they removed it from their lineup last year.

 

[KTU_Fan]

Well, anyone can get PPVs as long as they have cable and willing to pay... Cable companies may not carry the WWE Network

Verizon Fios carries the WWE network @ $7.95/month.

Thats something different. The other WWE network will probably have newer content as well as classic stuff.

 

[JeeperOne]

All that said though, let's not forget that if CBS decides to launch CNET TV as a digital subchannel (Either just for CBS O&Os as they're currently exploring now or distributed in the same manner NBC does with Universal Sports), I think Comcast will not only balk at selling off G4 BUT will also look at integrating NBC News with it ala a tech news feed and/or general non-political news briefs on the channel to counter the offerings on CNET

If they don't & G4 becomes either an extreme sports channel or a wrestling channel, CNET may rapidly become the best sub channel on TV as people will turn to it as a replacement to G4

Just my opinion.....

Cheers

 

[radiolives]

I thought most UFC stuff was on Spike TV.

And if CBS were to start a CNET TV on subchannel or cable channel that would be great. What CBS owned cable network could it be placed on?

 

[notalkallstatic]

I wouldn't be surprised to see that Comcast spins off their Cable Entertainment channels, and sales them all together. I can see them selling E!, G4, Style, and Fear Network, but keeping their sports channels (mainly since they just got the Olympics for another 4 years.)

 

[FreddyE1977]

Interesting. I would have thought NBC-Comcast is now in a much stronger position to force
carriage of G4 if they really wanted to. (hey, DirecTV, you want your NBC locals, Versus,
USA, etc.? Then you really want G4 back, don't you?)