NFL Network and Dish Network

[Illusio]

Don't know if anyone else heard, but in a big F-U to it's subscribers this week, Dish Network moved the NFL Network to its next highest pricing Tier. The jerks didn't even tell me. I called them today to get something fixed with my bill and the automated system had a special option for the NFL Network, I checked to see what it was and found out they just took my channel away.

They are calling it a "free preview" over the past year. I guess that's how they justify ganking a channel and not lowering my bill.

 

[PottedMeat]

They will never lower a bill. They'll shuffle exisiting channels around, usually up, then fill in the gaps with worthless garbage like music stations or shopping channels.

 

[olds]

Scared me. I don't know which package I have but I still get the NFL Channel.

 

[meltdown75]

damn you, Charlie. always messing with the packages. :ninja: arrrr i likes me free to air satellite

 

[hdeck]

wow what a load of crap. good job looking out for your customers dish!

 

[Kelemvor]

Big 10 network and the NFL network should both go DIAF and the world would be a much better place.

 

[nakedfrog]

Hopefully that means I'll have less channels to skip past when I'm on the guide.

 

[Slick5150]

Good. The NFL network needs to die quickly. Their biggest mistake was showing the Pats - Giants game on broadcast TV from their NFL Network feed, because:

1) It hurt the ratings of the NFL Network itself which pissed off Dish Network enough to move it to their 2nd tier.
2) The world got to experience the pain of listening to Bryant Gumble attempt to do play-by-play of an NFL game.

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: Slick5150
Good. The NFL network needs to die quickly. Their biggest mistake was showing the Pats - Giants game on broadcast TV from their NFL Network feed, because:

1) It hurt the ratings of the NFL Network itself which pissed off Dish Network enough to move it to their 2nd tier.
2) The world got to experience the pain of listening to Bryant Gumble attempt to do play-by-play of an NFL game.

I agree completely. I don't like multimillionaires trying to squeeze a couple extra dollars out of me.

 

[Deeko]

haha - so I guess the NFL's fight against cable has backfired. rather than getting cable to put it on basic, dish is moving it out!

Sure, sure, I'd love to get it for "free" - but the NFL is charging a ridiculous premium to the networks, and then trying to strongarm them (going to congress? wtf?) into putting it on cable, so I hope they lose this battle big time, either by the network losing live games, or them dropping the monthly cost to a reasonable level.

 

[Syringer]

Ugh, I thought it was a glitch on my receiver that I wasn't getting the NFL Network anymore, but I guess it's not a glitch at all.

What a shame, I could always count on the NFL Network entertaining me when nothing else is on. Lameness.

 

[Zorro]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
damn you, Charlie. always messing with the packages. :ninja: arrrr i likes me free to air satellite

good luck with all of the ecm's

 

[Double Trouble]

I can only hope DTV will follow suit and remove the NFN from the "standard" lineup. This isn't an issue of the cable/sat provider saying "FU" to their customers as much as them saying "FU" to the NFL. The NFL said "FU" to their fans when they started moving games to the NFN and charging a huge rate for providers to carry the network. When the cable providers balked, they tried to make it look like the cable providers were the bad guy preventing their customers from getting the NFN, but the reality is that it's the NFL saying "we're getting as much as we can out of the suckers.....errrr... fans by making them pay huuuuge amounts for the season ticket, now we can get another huge amount by making the cable guys put our network on their basic lineup and charging them a huge fee. Screw the fans if the cable guys decide not to bend over."

Incidentally, ditto for the Big Ten Network. As much as I want to watch my Buckeyes on TV in b-ball and football, I hope the cable guys tell BTN to jump in a lake. The games should be on free local stations, not on some expensive big ten network that only a few fans can watch.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: tagej
I can only hope DTV will follow suit and remove the NFN from the "standard" lineup. This isn't an issue of the cable/sat provider saying "FU" to their customers as much as them saying "FU" to the NFL. The NFL said "FU" to their fans when they started moving games to the NFN and charging a huge rate for providers to carry the network. When the cable providers balked, they tried to make it look like the cable providers were the bad guy preventing their customers from getting the NFN, but the reality is that it's the NFL saying "we're getting as much as we can out of the suckers.....errrr... fans by making them pay huuuuge amounts for the season ticket, now we can get another huge amount by making the cable guys put our network on their basic lineup and charging them a huge fee. Screw the fans if the cable guys decide not to bend over."

Incidentally, ditto for the Big Ten Network. As much as I want to watch my Buckeyes on TV in b-ball and football, I hope the cable guys tell BTN to jump in a lake. The games should be on free local stations, not on some expensive big ten network that only a few fans can watch.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Good riddance.

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: tagej
I can only hope DTV will follow suit and remove the NFN from the "standard" lineup. This isn't an issue of the cable/sat provider saying "FU" to their customers as much as them saying "FU" to the NFL. The NFL said "FU" to their fans when they started moving games to the NFN and charging a huge rate for providers to carry the network. When the cable providers balked, they tried to make it look like the cable providers were the bad guy preventing their customers from getting the NFN, but the reality is that it's the NFL saying "we're getting as much as we can out of the suckers.....errrr... fans by making them pay huuuuge amounts for the season ticket, now we can get another huge amount by making the cable guys put our network on their basic lineup and charging them a huge fee. Screw the fans if the cable guys decide not to bend over."

Incidentally, ditto for the Big Ten Network. As much as I want to watch my Buckeyes on TV in b-ball and football, I hope the cable guys tell BTN to jump in a lake. The games should be on free local stations, not on some expensive big ten network that only a few fans can watch.

My thoughts exactly.

Mine too, except I'm watching the Badgers.

 

[summit]

lets boycott the nfl until it allows its season pass to be on all carriers and the nfl network too. i hate having dish network and not being able to watch my niners.

 

[Slick5150]

Yeah, that's the otehr idiocy of the NFL is that they keep exclusively giving the rights to Sunday Ticket to DirecTV, screwing over the vast majority of people who don't have DirecTV (and especially those of us who couldn't have it even if we wanted it because of trees and other things blocking the signal).

Combine that with the NFL Network, and EA exclusivity for the craptacular Madden series, and you have an incredibly disturbing corporation.

I love NFL football, but I despise the NFL.