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FCC Rules Comcast Should Have NFL Network

Discussion in 'Football: NFL, College, High School' started by Lil Pun, Oct 11, 2008.

  1. Lil Pun

    Lil Pun Member

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    I know a lot of you get your service through Comcast but I don't know if you take this as bad or good news.

    http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3637517

    WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission has sided with the National Football League in a long-running programming dispute with Comcast Corp.

    The FCC says Comcast should carry the league's NFL Network on its popular digital cable package.

    The commission ruled that Comcast discriminated against the NFL Network by agreeing to carry the channel only on a more expensive sports cable service. The NFL filed the complaint against Comcast in May.

    The FCC ruling now goes before an administrative law judge, who could force Comcast to carry the NFL programming at a certain price.

    Comcast has argued that consumers will have to pay more for programming many may not want if the company is forced to include the NFL Network in its regular digital cable package.
     
  2. Bandwagoner

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    i cannot wait till we can just order the channels we actually want and then pay the per channel price. This package crap is a total ripoff, why support a channel that sucks
     
  3. arkoe

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    It would be awesome if in response to this Comcast just dropped the NFL Network altogether.
     
  4. Kam

    Kam Member

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    Let's get rid of Lifetime Channel.
     
  5. arkoe

    arkoe (ง'̀-'́)ง

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    And the Lawrence Welk channel.
     
  6. LonghornFan

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    U-Verse for the win. So glad to be rid of that companies thievery.
     
  7. Franchise3

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    Can I get me some ESPNU too?
     

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