Contract agreed. Don't have all details but likely out of market back in play too.
Comcast BTN update
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Yup you did. I didn't rule out an agreement but you have more confidence in one happening than I did.
News must be really fresh because quick google search and haven't found anything as of now. Actually, newest article is from just this morning about PSU fans not being able to watch some games.
Great. I can stop calling Comcast and ranting about how I need to watch my Rutgers football games.
Thank you. I would have probably switched to FIOS if they cut off BTN. After years of being happy with the service, I have had a couple of issues lately which would have made it easier to explain to the wife why she had to learn a new channel lineup
"Sports Business Journal's John Ourand says the deal will put the channel on its expanded basic tier in states with a Big Ten school, and will be on the Sports and Entertainment tier everywhere else."
You can get SEP for pretty cheap for college and NFL football season and then drop easily.
Fantastic. Back in business. Was getting ready to strike with Hulu Live. Now will ditch the contingency plans and stick with what I got. Yes, I know. I'm a dinosaur. Still have a Landline as well. Considering digging out the rotary phone from the attic.
https://www.landgrantholyland.com/2...ig-ten-network-on-xfinity-football-basketball
The new agreement ensures that Comcast customers in the Big Ten footprint (Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) will not see any interruptions in service. Nor will Big Ten fans in Delaware, Washington D.C., or the Northern Virginia suburbs, thanks to their proximity to a league school.
The contract will also guarantee that BTN will eventually be restored to the Sports and Entertainment premium tier for Xfinity customers outside of the traditional conference states, but no further details have yet been announced as to when that will happen.
The new agreement ensures that Comcast customers in the Big Ten footprint (Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) will not see any interruptions in service. Nor will Big Ten fans in Delaware, Washington D.C., or the Northern Virginia suburbs, thanks to their proximity to a league school.
The contract will also guarantee that BTN will eventually be restored to the Sports and Entertainment premium tier for Xfinity customers outside of the traditional conference states, but no further details have yet been announced as to when that will happen.
Not sure. But I remember in the early 2000s it wasn’t carried much here. The Michigan loss to Appalachian state was not really seen anywhere
that game was the 1st yr of BTN, (played literally 2 days after the initial launch of the network), and virtually no one carried BTN at the time other than Directv, (which was controlled by News Corp at the time, as was BTN), and maybe Dish Net.
i don't think any of the big cable guys carried BTN at all the entire 1st yr, even in the midwest. (fee negotiation standoff that lasted the entire yr).
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Ummm yeah so like I said, no one really saw that game. Don’t waste my time bro
Except for the PAC12 network.
The good thing about them not having it is I get them to give me the NFL Ticket every year in order to "keep" me from the local cable provider.
IIRC, it was offered on their "Sports Pak", which was $5/month for a dozen sports channels. It absolutely was reasonable at the time. I don't know what the details are any longer since I no longer live in Comcast territory.
That was it, it was part of the sports pack. It was also part of a predium pack (a tier that includes HBO, Showtime, etc)
"In addition, in the coming months, customers outside of the Big Ten states will have access to the Big Ten Network as part of Comcast’s Sports and Entertainment Package."
This makes it sound like they still won't have BTN games available out of footprint for a few more months (meaning all of college football season will be missed), which has been the issue the past few months, so I'm not sure why everyone's rejoicing. Is it poorly worded? Will BTN be available out of footprint in FL and other states next week?
The Comcast deal maintains the status quo as BTN has always been on basic in footprint and a sports package or some more expensive tier out of footprint.
https://www.mlive.com/sports/2018/0...rnews_sf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
"At the heart of the dispute between FOX and Comcast was money. BTN president Mark Silverman told MLive last week that FOX had re-negotiated contracts with every other major cable and satellite company to continue carrying the FOX-owned network.
Silverman declined to disclose what type of increase in carriage fees FOX was of Comcast asking for BTN. But Big Ten schools have raked in since the network launched in 2007, with Michigan saying it received $51 million from the conference in 2018, a good chunk of that revenue from BTN.
Good news, too, for Big Ten fans currently without Big Ten Network: Comcast subscribers outside of the Big Ten footprint will soon have access to BTN as part of their sports and entertainment package. No other details were made available."
"At the heart of the dispute between FOX and Comcast was money. BTN president Mark Silverman told MLive last week that FOX had re-negotiated contracts with every other major cable and satellite company to continue carrying the FOX-owned network.
Silverman declined to disclose what type of increase in carriage fees FOX was of Comcast asking for BTN. But Big Ten schools have raked in since the network launched in 2007, with Michigan saying it received $51 million from the conference in 2018, a good chunk of that revenue from BTN.
Good news, too, for Big Ten fans currently without Big Ten Network: Comcast subscribers outside of the Big Ten footprint will soon have access to BTN as part of their sports and entertainment package. No other details were made available."
I will find out more details this week and share with the group. I find it very unlikely that we would make an agreement with Fox and then hold back out of market games for the season. What would be the point? The out of market footprint was removed as a negotiating strategy with Fox. People are "rejoicing" because BTN won't end up like YES from a couple years ago.
is that correct, or were many out of market with Comcast getting it on a large digital tier with maybe 30-40 other channels, rather than a sports tier?
It was part of their Sports Entertainment Package which includes
SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT
beIN Sports
Big Ten Network
CBS Sports Network
CMT
Crime and Investigation Network
ESPN Classic
ESPN Goal Line/ESPN Buzzer Beater
ESPNews
ESPNU
Fox College Sports Atlantic
Fox College Sports Central
Fox College Sports Pacific
FS1
FS2
FX Movie Channel
MavTV
Military History Channel
MLB Network
NBA TV
NFL Network
NFL RedZone
NHL Network
Outdoor Channel
Outside Television
PAC-12 Networks
SEC
Sportsman Channel
Tennis Channel
TV Games Network
World Fishing Network
My info shows all out of market carriage will be restored by the end of the week. Out of market will need to subscribe to the SEP package as previously noted. I suggest adding now as call centers will be busy come the weekend. Believe you can also add SEP at the website.
I went into the XFinity store here in central Florida yesterday to return some equipment, and while I was there I of course asked them to re-instate BTN, which, up until the time they discontinued here (about four months ago), I'd had for the prior two years. I already have the Sports and Entertainment Package, as I have FS1 and others, so it was just a matter of them adding BTN to my service. She said I have to wait until this Friday to get BTN--which her co-worker corroborated--as that's when the deal officially goes into effect and service can be resumed.
So even though it's a close call, I'll be on the phone this Friday with Comcast (and am strong enough to call them without first ingesting valium) to have them get me my BTN again. And then I'll figure out if it's even on TV down here or if I have to watch BTN2Go on my laptop, given that RU-Texas State isn't exactly the game that the country has been waiting to see.
So even though it's a close call, I'll be on the phone this Friday with Comcast (and am strong enough to call them without first ingesting valium) to have them get me my BTN again. And then I'll figure out if it's even on TV down here or if I have to watch BTN2Go on my laptop, given that RU-Texas State isn't exactly the game that the country has been waiting to see.
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