The E-Files

Why it had to be Comcast's mistake

Posted by: Eric Loy

Monday, September 15, 2008 9:46 PM

Don't know if you remember the days when we only got two NFL games on Sunday and one on Monday, but the football world was very cold then.

CBS and NBC, the two Sunday football networks, had total control over what game each station carried. They sent the channel one feed. In our area, it was usually the Bears on CBS (boo) as the main team, and the next closest NFC team second. The channel couldn't decide to switch from a ST. Louis Cardinals game (which no one wanted) to a Green Bay Packer game (which I wanted). they has one feed, one choice.

Comcast, when I contacted them Saturday, originally claimed the same problem when they didn't give Champaign-Urbana the Illinois football game. The BTN was to blame, they said, they sent us that feed and told us to put it on the main channel.

Well, that story didn't work and here's why. The BTN sends Comcast and every local cable provider EVERY FEED, not just one. If they didn't send every feed, the local providers couldn't put the games on the higher tier overflow channels. BUT THEY DID have the feeds of the game, they just didn't make the switch.

Patrick Pfingsten, ace newsman in the WDWS/WHMS newsroon, got the story:

http://www.illinihq.com/podcasts/illini_sports/2008/09/15/524

Comcast certainly gets a deserved black eye from this, after all the hype and ads touting their superiority over satellite, and they pull this gaffe?

 

 

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