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NFL Network flap may jeopardize league's antitrust exemption
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Posted on 12/19/2007 5:22:15 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound
NFL officials have repeatedly said they will not agree to any distribution arrangement that only involves games and not year-round broadcast of the channel.How many folks care about NFL coverage when they aren't playing games? Some hardcore gamblers, perhaps.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:24:21 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Snickering Hound
I am against this type of congressional monkeying usually but I admit they have a point.
Same problem with ESPNU for some college football games. I buy the season ticket for college football on Directv and they advertise it that you will see all the games but that is not true since I don’t get ESPNU (part of the biggest package).
The NFL network was a brilliant idea and marketing tool but they need to expand the market for it. I would assume the cable companies don’t wish to pay the NFL network what they are asking.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:25:51 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(Dear heaven.... we really need President Reagan again!)
To: Snickering Hound
The current trend (which sucks) seems to be leading the NFL toward pricing themselves out of the market. I enjoy watching football as much as the next guy, but there is a limit to how much I can/will spend directly out of pocket, over and above enduring the commercial interruptions, only to further enrich millionaires...
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:30:36 PM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Although most dead people vote democrat, aborted babies, if given the choice, would vote Republican.)
To: Snickering Hound
To: MinorityRepublican
The NFL Network has got to hurt the NFL.
To: PAR35
I’m pretty sure most do. It’s no coincidence that ESPN devotes a good chunk of its programming on all of its channels to football.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:34:07 PM PST
by
Terpfen
(It's your fault, not Pelosi's.)
To: Snickering Hound
First, the monopoly that cable companies have in many cities needs to end. Second, (and this would follow if there were real competition), consumers ought to be able to pay for only those channels they want to receive. I hate these darn package deals. There are so many channels I would love to eliminate.
To: Snickering Hound
The NFL has become rich and arrogant ... way to arrogant.
Forcing local taxpayers to shell out the funds to tear down 25 year old stadiums and build new state of the art stadiums to house NFL franchises. The veiled threat ... if you don't you lose your team. Now they want to jack up their already inflated revenues by restricting fan viewership. Time for congress to step in and knock these arrogant 'a' holes back a notch or two.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:37:15 PM PST
by
BluH2o
To: Pining_4_TX
First, the monopoly that cable companies have in many cities needs to end. What monopoly? You have a myriad of choices in television programming providers.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:38:34 PM PST
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: Snickering Hound
I guess we get to see which Senators that Comcast and Time Warner have in their pocket.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:40:42 PM PST
by
Dreagon
To: Phantom Lord
No, in many areas, cable companies are protected from competition from other cable companies. Cities and towns are allowed to choose one cable company to serve their area. Yes, there is still satellite, but in most places, you only have one choice in cable.
To: Snickering Hound
Doesn't congress have more important things to worry over?
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:45:10 PM PST
by
Kakaze
(Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
To: volunbeer
>>>I am against this type of congressional monkeying usually but I admit they have a point.<<<
No, they don’t.
There is no need for government involvement in telling a private entity under what conditions and to whom they must make their product available.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:45:25 PM PST
by
Keith in Iowa
(Life's a bitch, don't elect one President.)
To: Snickering Hound
The NFL doesn’t have a monopoly. It’s not like indian gambling. Anybody can start a new league if they want to. New England and NY aren’t business competitors, they are partners.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:50:04 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Snickering Hound; 4everontheRight; ABG(anybody but Gore); Abbeville Conservative; admiralsn; ...
To: Snickering Hound
Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to the NFL on Wednesday threatening to reconsider the league's antitrust exemption if it doesn't make games on the NFL Network available to more viewers.
From what I've read (NFL website), the fault is with cable companies, not the the NFL Network. Cable companies have placed NFL Network in digital tiers that the viewer has to pay additional money to receive.
For example, Cox Cable offers the NFL Network only on the Sports Digital Tier which costs the viewer around $10.00.
Satellite companies have NFL on their more general group of offerings.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:55:12 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Keith in Iowa
Of course you are right. But you have to add that Congress has no business exempting any business from the antitrust laws. Can’t have one without the other.
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posted on
12/19/2007 5:57:25 PM PST
by
DryFly
To: Snickering Hound
What in the name of the wide wide world of sports is the US Congress doing monkeying around in the NFL’s business?
Is there anything else that Congress could be doing that is a tad more productive?
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posted on
12/19/2007 6:03:43 PM PST
by
padre35
(Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
To: padre35
Is there anything else that Congress could be doing that is a tad more productive?
Do you really want them doing things they think are productive?
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posted on
12/19/2007 6:07:20 PM PST
by
cp124
(Republican=Toast)
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