The FCC agrees that Comcast discriminated against the NFL Network

Where you stand on the NFL Network vs Comcast dispute more than likely depends on how much you enjoy sports programming; but no matter how valuable the channel is to you, The NFL Network has a point. The FCC recently agreed that is discriminatory for Comcast to put the NFL Network on a sports tier when at the same time Comcast owned sports networks get to be included on the most valuable basic tiers. We love sports, but we also don't mind paying for them, so we wonder why all the dedicated 24 hour sports networks aren't all on the same tier. Of course all of this will be for naught if the rumors about ESPN and the NFL getting together are true.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 11th 2008 6:15PM]

I don't think it's discrimination for Comcast to not carry a crappy network that only shows a handful of sporting events on the standard basic package vs. carrying a a channel that shows a very large number of local and regional sporting events.

Almost every channel that is Comcast Sports Net now used to be some other regional channel that Comcast was showing before they bought them. It just has to do with demand, I don't need NFL network clogging up the double digit channels and I doubt any but the most die hard of football fans probably feel the same way.

[wyldtek Posted Oct 11th 2008 5:32PM]

I already switched to DirecTV so I'm good :)

[spin cycle Posted Oct 11th 2008 6:38PM]

A La Carte, please.

None of this stupid sports channel explosion. Why do I need 20 channels (counting NHL, NBA, NFL, ESPNU, BigTen, etc.) to cover sports now? There isn't all that much more sports than used to be covered by two channels + 3 networks.

[Biggiesized Posted Oct 11th 2008 7:18PM]

I sent a letter over a year ago about this. Something is finally being done about it.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 13th 2008 8:12AM]

Psst... That's "all for naught"