Neither is your use of punctuation marks.

Ben Drawbaugh, you've got it slightly twisted.

You said that "one channel would be available to every provider in the US instead of just to DirecTV Sunday Ticket subscribers," but I read the story to indicate that there will be two separate channels, both of which happen to be called RedZone channel.

Sunday Ticket subs on DirecTV will get their same channel, which comes live from DirecTV-branded studios with the excellent Andrew Siciliano as host. Meanwhile, Comcast subs will get a different, NFL-produced version with a yet-to-be-named host in a new studio. The only thing they have in common is their name and their function.

Nice story, but you might want to clarify this discrepancy.

I can haz?

Yeah, this is a really immature post. I've seen NBA stars miss the rim just as badly as that.

This is nice, but DirecTV has the four major networks. I'd much rather have ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX instead of CSPAN, CSPAN2 and CNN Headline News. The CSPANs are dull and provide little in the way of election-night coverage, and CNNHN is just regurgitated CNN material.

Woops, you're an idiot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution

WRONG!

ABC will be the predominant channel for broadcast.

This is great! I'd love to see what ESPN/ABC would do with the games.

And don't worry, they would definitely use ABCHD for their prime-time coverage because that's where the top advertising dollars would be.

But as bpeck said, the all-sports networks would mean 24-hour Olympics coverage on many channels instead of breaking away for newscasts and other programming. Plus, they could have an all-highlights channel on ESPN News.

One concern that could arise is how ESPN would cover other sports. Would the NBA get the shaft because they're all Olympics? That'd be fine with me, but the NBA might cry foul. Also, would SportsCenter ruin the results of an event they're gonna show on tape later that day?

Also, ESPN's promise to not tape delay anything could be a problem. When it's 8 p.m. in New York, it's 4 a.m. in Sochi, Russia, the site of the 2014 Games.

By the way, here's a look at the ABC family of networks:

ABC (HD)
ESPN (HD)
ESPN2 (HD)
ESPN News (HD)
ABC Family (HD)
ESPN Classic
ESPNU
ESPN Deportes