[Husker] Games on Versus network

[Ken Oliver]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 21, 2009 12:55 PM
>To: Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com>
>Cc: Husker List <husker at tssi.com>
>Subject: Re: [Husker] Games on Versus network
>
>WARNING: Lack of relevance to Nebraska Football ahead.
>
>On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Mike Jaixen <mikejaixen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The background I have on the issues between Versus and DirecTV is that, at it's core, it's a cable vs. satellite issue.  Versus is owned by Comcast, a major cable provider nationwide, and Comcast is looking to "stick it" to DirectTV as a competitor in many of their markets.
>>
>> It's basically a big game of chicken where the customers are the pawns.
>>
>>  Mike Jaixen
>
>This is one of the reasons (not the only) why I finally dropped Dish
>after nearly 10 years of service with them and went with Cox.  We had
>several issues with Dish and some of their suppliers in the last
>couple of years that just drove me crazy.
>
>Mike actually understates it a bit - Comcast is THE largest cable
>company in the country, not just a major one.  And they proposed to
>Direct TV a price for Versus that supposedly was twice or more the
>previously negotiated price.  But on the other hand, supposedly Direct
>TV was going to repackage Versus as part of their higher tier (extra
>money paid by user) service, so supposedly Comcast made the proposal
>in order to lessen the profit that Direct could make by doing so.
>Lots of supposed's in this, but I had been sort of tracking this sort
>of thing when I was a Dish user.  And Mike hits the nail on the head -
>its the user who gets it in the end.  Either lack of access to a
>channel that doesn't have a replacement for the programming it
>provides, or gets nailed for higher fees for programming they were
>already paying for.
>
>And, by the way, I'm not all that crazy about Cox either.
>
>Nick
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Substitute ESPN and Cablevision relative to ESPNU above and you get another true story.


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