[NU Sports] TV for Wisconsin Game

Tue Oct 3 09:56:28 CDT 2006

There's really no good choice for cable inside Chicago city limits. 
Comcast and RCN are the only games in town for most areas of the city, and 
they're both atrocious as far as customer service goes.  Everything else 
seems to be okay, as long as you've got a signal.  God help you if the 
signal goes out.

I've officially switched from blaming Comcast and RCN for not carrying 
ESPNU to blaming those jackasses at ESPN.

I am now an ESPN/ABC Sports hater.  First their web site didn't work in 
Firefox for more than a year, now I find out they don't actually 
understand how the internet works (e.g., by trying to base access to their 
ESuckPN360 service on ISP).  They only show my beloved Wildcats on 
networks that they *know* nobody in Chicago gets.  Finally, they moved 
Monday Night Football to their ESuckPN channel from ABC and destroyed a 
modern American tradition.

Jonathan

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, John A. DeGroat wrote:

> Comcast is arguable the worst cable service going that is why e switched to a 
> satellite service.  We could never get answers from Comcast on what football 
> games they were showing, etc.  If the service went down for whatever reason, 
> we could never expect any kind of a decent response.   Maybe it's because I 
> worked for a telco for many years I expect good service from a cable company, 
> but the kind of lousy service like that we experienced from Comcast would 
> have landed a telco in front of a PUC in real time.
>
> John DeGroat
>
> Roy Lamberton wrote:
>
>> When I go to the link below, I get into an ESPN screen that has ESPN360 as 
>> one
>> of the program choices. When you click on that particular box, right now 
>> it's an
>> interview with donavan McNabb, a window pops up that says: "Sorry, you need
>> access to ESPN360 to view the selected content. Don't give up the fight! 
>> The
>> All-Access period for ESPN360 is over, but the battle with sports video
>> deficiency lasts a lifetime."
>> 
>> Click the "find out more" box, and you get another screen that asks you to 
>> help
>> them get wider access, and at the bottom is another click box, "I Want 
>> ESPN36-!"
>> 
>> These are the ISPs that currently have a deal with ESPN: Frontier
>> US Cable, Verizon, BELD, Charter LA, Charter Stl, Grande, Mediacom, 
>> MidHudson,
>> SMU
>> StarStream, MTC, Iowa Network Services, Conway, Liberty PR
>> 
>> If you have Verizon as your isp, you can get ESPN360.
>> 
>> If you have Comcast, one of the nation's top providers, you get nothing.
>> 
>> As I said, it's a P*ssing match between ABC/ESPN/Disney and Comcast over
>> coverage and rights fees.
>> 
>> I've been asking Comcast for ESPNU for two years now, but I'm still 
>> waiting. So
>> much for customer demand.
>> 
>> Does anyone know what the rights fees for ESPN360 are?
>> 
>> rsl
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On 
>>> Behalf Of Jonathan Hodges
>>> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 4:29 PM
>>> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>>> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] TV for Wisconsin Game
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Here's the info I got from NU concerning the game on ESPN360:
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> This is all that I know...
>>> 
>>> http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnJump?showID=360
>>> 
>>> If you can click on on the "Launch ESPN360" and you get a screen that says 
>>> "launch video player," you should be fine.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> 
>>> Michael J. Wolf
>>> Asst. AD for Media Services
>>> Northwestern University
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> Jonathan
>>> 
>>> On 10/2/06, AJWDBW at aol.com <AJWDBW at aol.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I would venture a guess that as we become more competitive we will appear 
>>>> more on the regular ESPN/ABC schedules.
>>>> 
>>>> Don Williams C55
>>>>
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
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