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It's a good trend... ...now lets move the rest of the sports cost to that package. Come on down, I've good lightly used stadiums, arena's and teams with potential, but that's not all, call now and I'll throw in some ageing local sportscasters, a few has been TV "personalities" and some very old former Olympians. and a whole lot of conceited used car salesman. So what can I do to get YOU into this package tonight?

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Re: I do know one thing. I don't see how you can say it will "cost" all consumers. In order for it to cost more for the 'unsubscribers' they would have to *lose* value. The premise is that they don't want the sports channels in the first place, ie they aren't watching them, ie they aren't getting value. I'm sure you're right that part of the cost savings will go to the Cable Co's bottom line, but the reality is that part of it *does* go to the customer. It just means that finally all those ESPN subscribers will have to pay the fill cost of what they are getting, rather than having the cost subsidized by the rest of us.

A la carte It's as realistic as people trying to avoid paying taxes for things they don't like. The money goes in, and you get something for it. You might not always like what you receive, but you'll receive what you want. Without a la carte, all the networks will become general entertainment networks, they'll all be buying sports rights to try and escalate what people will be willing to pay for it. I think it would make the equation far worse. You'd pay more and get less, and more esoteric entertainment would be shut out by the capitalists trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

	Re: A la carte You can KINDA all ready get a la carte with a "smart" TV and Netflix streaming. Last season of Breaking Bad finally showed up. It was like TV CRACK. -- Petty people are disproportionally corrupted by petty power

brad join:2007-09-06 Etobicoke, ON	Re: A la carte said by N3OGH: You can KINDA all ready get a la carte with a "smart" TV and Netflix streaming. Last season of Breaking Bad finally showed up. It was like TV CRACK. That's not even close to kinda.

	But everyone does this already... Packaging out the regional sports channels is something that pretty much every provider does now. This is not new or unforeseen to happen with Google Fiber. When EPSN channels and NFL Network are pulled out of the standard package and put on a Sports Tier, then you'll have some real news.

	Re: But everyone does this already... ^This. Having an additional sports tier has been around for a while, especially on satellite.

said by smcallah: Packaging out the regional sports channels is something that pretty much every provider does now. This is not new or unforeseen to happen with Google Fiber. When EPSN channels and NFL Network are pulled out of the standard package and put on a Sports Tier, then you'll have some real news. That is where the ever increasing costs are - sports forced on the basic cable tiers. -- "If you want to anger a conservative lie to him. If you want to anger a liberal tell him the truth."

very good indeed Now hopefully one of these days, the people in charge of spending your paycheck(cable tv, cities, city owned sports venues that don't need hundred million dollar upgrades) will stop kissing the balls of sports teams and stop all the subsidizing of modern day gladiator sports. /But drrrrrrr, subsidies create jobs!!!!!! And make a teeny tiny minuscule portion of the population billionaires with all those subsidies. No need to spend your own money when the politicians you own, can make you rich. Dump all sports channels onto 'pay for tiers' and remove them from basic or enhanced basic. -- Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe

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pac12 and longhorn say no to sports pack on directv but are pac12 and longhorn say no to sports pack on directv (they want to be basic) but are ok with Google doing it? (well Google does not have systems in the pac12 areas so they may be able to get a way with sports pack only) Now will they have all feeds in HD or just the main feed? Main feed + game only feeds like dish? Do they even have the big ten HD overflow slots? Now will Google have CSN Houston in austin? as part of basic? Will longhorn be in basic in Austin. Will Austin have a forced RSN fee?

Re: pac12 and longhorn say no to sports pack on directv but are The issue with Longhorn Network has to do with ESPN being unwilling to renegotiate contracts until they're due. Longhorn Network will probably come to DirecTV as part of the rest of the Disney/ABC/ESPN family. Pac-12 Network's issue is having all 7 feeds (National, plus the 6 regionals), and also having it in a local tier with a higher fee in the Pac-12 footprint. DirecTV doesn't want 7 dedicated channels and allocating that bandwidth.

brad join:2007-09-06 Etobicoke, ON	Re: Not Standalone, Not Ala Carte said by elray: Sports customers still have to pay for the basic pay-tv bundle in order to get it. Of course, you want cable you pay for it. That's the cost of having cable. No free rides for sports fans.

Source: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Fiber-Latest-to-Offer-Sports-as-Standalone-TV-Package-125230

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