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ESPN lovers who have Cox Cable.....
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SludgeFactory
Platinum Member
Your IP 😉
There was another thread about increasing cable costs here tonight. If they spin off a sports package, how long you think they're going to keep the standard rates down? It's inevitable that they start creeping up again, they know what the market will bear and how high they can push the standard monthly bill. Except they'll itemize out the "sports package" at an additional $10 or $20, for all of us sheep to pay.
Satellite may be in my future. I can't wait for power companies and telcos to get into TV/internet and either force these cable clowns to shape up or get run out of town.
yeah definitely. The cable company recently increased the rates at home to about $110 a month. It's pretty outrageous, especially when you factor in their terrible service. My cable internet installation was far from smooth, in cliff notes form basically they didn't show during their scheduled appointment, made ME wait a week for another appointment even though it was their fault for missing the first one, then realized that the guy who did our digital cable installation cut big time corners so that we coudn't have internet. Wait another week for a different guy to come out and fix all their sh1t, and all they have to offer me is a $20 credit for all my trouble and wasted saturdays. On top of that they lied about that credit and I never got it, so finally I went higher up and gave them a real mouthful of how I felt and they gave me a $40 credit finally.
in short, cable company blows.
Thats weird...I have cox, and i just saw a commercial today which was basically pointing fingers the other way, and they had makethemplayfair.com as their website.
I had Cox Cable after they bought out the cable company we were with. We stayed with analog cable for a long time. Then i decided it was time to switch to digital. Man there are no channels on the plan we had ( i forget what plan it was). Good thing my city has it's own digital cable tv. We switched and we get more channels for less money a month. SCREW COX CABLE!
They aren't canceling it, they are making it a seperate ala-carte package. The cable-co's are claiming that sports channels are increasing costs at over 25% a year and that only 8% of cable subscribers want the channel. Seems like it makes sense to me, let those that watch the channel pay for it.
Imported
Lifer
I see. Then they should do the same with other channels. I know I don't watch any of those womens network channels, the home shopping ones, or the C-SPAN ones. I could live with just getting ESPN, ESPN2, FoodTV, CNN, MTV, MTV2, TNN, BET, Cartoon Network, Fox Sports, SciFi, and Speed.
JHoNNy1OoO
Golden Member
Cox will lose a lot of business if they put ESPN on a second tier. Any person that wants any sports related info goes to ESPN first and then to the whatever else is out there. I highly doubt ESPN is to blame for this. I'm pretty sure they will find a middle ground.
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gistech1978
Diamond Member
cox: what an appropriate name!
I have Cox cable.. They fvcking blow!
They take some of our UF Gator games and put them on pay per view.. even though they're being shown on ESPN. So, a network I have to pay for (and do so), is blank during the game. My parents called me up once and asked me how the game was. I had to ask them to turn it on and check the score for me.
My roomate called Cox about it and they said that ESPN was doing it; not them. I would like someone to bomb Cox please.
They take some of our UF Gator games and put them on pay per view.. even though they're being shown on ESPN. So, a network I have to pay for (and do so), is blank during the game. My parents called me up once and asked me how the game was. I had to ask them to turn it on and check the score for me.
My roomate called Cox about it and they said that ESPN was doing it; not them. I would like someone to bomb Cox please.
Just what the fsck is your problem? I can understand being pissed because the rates for your cable services are going up or ESPN's attitude, but that was quite frankly uncalled for. You even said it yourself, ESPN was doing it. Why not go crying that someone should bomb them?
Every freaking major provider is going through, on both sides of the fence. The current example is ESPN. Yeah, they're paying freaking extreme rates to the various franchises because they themselves demand more money. And all ESPN is is a sports channel and has to pay those rates to have anything to air. When they sign their little contracts with the various cable co's, they also manage to force most companies to carry their other, subsidiary channels a la ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPN We're-better-than-sex. Why? Because it means more money for ESPN. (Remember, other networks pull of the same practice as this last, USA Networks [usa, sci fi....] and Viacom [MTV, VH1 ...])
Cable/Satellite users don't all watch ESPN. Cox is currently quoting something like 80% of their subscribers don't watch ESPN or it's various sister stations. Assuming they aren't exagerating, that's quite a lot of subscribers who are paying for a channel, paying higher basic cable rates, for a channel that that they don't even watch. Is it fair? IMO, no. But you sports nuts are going to be a lot more fanatical about your scores, teams, whatever. You're going to be bringing us in the big bucks by purchasing Pay-Per-Views, sports packages, whatever.
So in the end, yeah. ESPN will probably stay where it is, as a gateway drug to the other digital tiers. Our rates will all be jacked up. And then everyone will have something else to cry about.
Both companies are acting childish, IMO, in how they're bringing the fight to the public and their various tactics. But just remember, although Cox is the only company really "taking a stand" against it, every provider has been facing the same issues for quite a long while.
Just my two cents.
I really don't blame Cox here. This is more ESPNs fault. They want to jack the cost of carrying ESPN.
Actually it all comes back to Disney. Disney wants a rate increase on all its channels. And lets be
honest folks. Rate hikes don't effect the cable/sat companies, it gets passed on to you and me.
This is actually someone calling Disney on something. Disney would like to believe that everyone watches
ESPN, and Cox is finally saying for the prices you want, we won't carry it basically anymore. To Disney that
would be a big hit, because you start to lose viewers, and you definately makes it hard to get new viewers.
I mean is there a need for a 30+% price increase for Disney channels.
I believe this is more of a marketing threat against Disney than anything else.
Actually it all comes back to Disney. Disney wants a rate increase on all its channels. And lets be
honest folks. Rate hikes don't effect the cable/sat companies, it gets passed on to you and me.
This is actually someone calling Disney on something. Disney would like to believe that everyone watches
ESPN, and Cox is finally saying for the prices you want, we won't carry it basically anymore. To Disney that
would be a big hit, because you start to lose viewers, and you definately makes it hard to get new viewers.
I mean is there a need for a 30+% price increase for Disney channels.
I believe this is more of a marketing threat against Disney than anything else.
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