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What's up with COX Cable and The Yes Network?

MarcB

MarcB

Last night I went to watch The Yankees Game on The Yes Network and instead they were showing "The Best of The Michael Kay Show". That is what airs on the national-feed of The YES Network. Does anyone know why COX was showing the national-feed of the YES Network?

P.S. I had invited a friend and co-worker over to watch the game since he lives the next town over and has COMCAST, so he can't get any of the games. He couldn't come over because his boss asked to work an extra 3 hours. If he had come over I would've looked like an idiot because the game wasn't on COX Cable. At the beginning of the season said to him "You have a standing invite to come over and watch the games at my house with me since I have COX Cable and therefore am not affected by the COMCAST-YES Network hostage situation."
 
And my mother, who lives in Berlin, CT, gets YES Network. That's due to her having Frontier for her TV and internet. I could switch my TV service to Frontier, since I already have their DSL internet and landline phone service. I need to dump out of my limited basic service with Comcast. It comes to $31 and change. For LIMITED basic.

Anyways, do you get that feeling that this YES mess will never get resolved? :mad:
 
Don CT said:
I got official word that there was a routing issue with Yes and they were sending the national feed.
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On COX's Facebook Page they were denying it was their problem. They were blaming it on The YES Network. I knew that was a bunch of crap because as I sent in a TEXT to the friend I mentioned above neighbors of mine who have Frontier and DIRECTV had no problems watching the game on YES.
 
MarcB said:
On COX's Facebook Page they were denying it was their problem. They were blaming it on The YES Network. I knew that was a bunch of crap because as I sent in a TEXT to the friend I mentioned above neighbors of mine who have Frontier and DIRECTV had no problems watching the game on YES.
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The Facebook page is useless, they are just interns most likely answering basic questions. From what I understand Yes controls the receiver at the head end and their computer switched to the wrong feed. From what I gather Cox doesn't have control over it. The feed switched right at game time and didn't switch back until around 12:30 the next day. I called customer service that night and they said they were getting a lot of complaints I guess that rules out Comcast's argument that nobody watches.
 
As long NESN is working fine and showing the Red Sox its fine by me. Years we had to go without NESN on Cox, one night of no YES wont hurt you
 
Part of the issue with the Comcast debacle is that Comcast owns their own sports network, so they see YES as competition, in addition to the high cost.

Honestly, I agree with Comcast on this one. These sports networks are out of control. This is what happens when you have teams giving 200M contracts to players. That money has to come from somewhere, and most of it comes from TV revenue. I have Verizon Fios so I have access to Yankees games. The team is so bad I never watch anyway.
 
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