Comments on: Everyone who gets the Fox Soccer Channel, Step Forward. Not So Fast, Time Warner Subscribers

By: Cross Your Fingers for FSC | Never Captain Nicky Butt

Cross Your Fingers for FSC | Never Captain Nicky Butt — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:44:09 +0000

[...] I am about to get screwed. Big time. EPL Talk and Avoiding the Drop have summarized and analyzed the situation brilliantly, so I won’t wax poetic for five [...]

By: Magnakai Haaskivi

Magnakai Haaskivi — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:54:05 +0000

Except for when Time Warner does something stupid like try to eliminate one of the four networks from their line-up. That’s the kind of thing that should get you thrown out of the collusion party.

By: thefuseproject

thefuseproject — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:53:58 +0000

It’s called “collusion.”

Everyone- including the government- knows about it, but the cable companies are deft enough about the way they go about it that nobody wants to spend the time and money to stop it.

By: Magnakai Haaskivi

Magnakai Haaskivi — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:36:28 +0000

Word. U-Verse is the best cable ever; in soccer terms, I have FSC, FSEE, Gol, and COULD get Setanta if I were interested. I also get to deal with insanely friendly customer support people. It’s a win all around.

By: Magnakai Haaskivi

Magnakai Haaskivi — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:35:10 +0000

Didn’t know that about Comcast, but no, it can’t. The problem is that, while most Americans don’t LIKE their cable arrangement, there usually isn’t a substantial difference between providers; prices, packages, and the like are typically only different by one or two channels. There also, until recently, haven’t been any other options, particularly if you’re renting an apartment or are in a metropolitan area that can’t find the satellite (like, say, pretty much everyone in New York City).

Ironically, the folks who get their FoxNews taken away will probably pretty much immediately go liberal and ask for government intervention in the matter.

By: El Nene

El Nene — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:13:08 +0000

I wonder how Time Warner will reconcile that rate increase with that price lock guarantee they’ve been peddling in the Dallas area.

Oh and Uverse OWNS! Everywhere that service goes, TW and Comcast bleed subscribers by the boatload.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:55:51 +0000

i read the same thing on epltalk too and happily voted in the little push poll since i’m a very satisfied directv customer!!

i was blown away to discover the cozy little monopolies the comms companies enjoy in the “Land of the Free” (TM) when i moved over here.

i’m not certain, but i imagine it’s been the same for at&t, i’m definitely aware of verizon literally fighting township by township for the right to bring their fios tv into a market currently exclusively occupied by the likes of comcast or time warner. it just boggles the mind. how can that be in consumer interests? why hasn’t anyone done anything about it? oh wait, can you say lobbyists??

my feeling is that while soccer fans in america are obviously pretty smart, worldly-wise folk, the rest of americaland are too dumb and ignorant to realise this isn’t good for them. if this is how it is here and this is the best country in the world, then it surely follows that this is as good as it gets, right? hurr durr!!

that said, the people who “think” like that will surely have an issue with hannity and beck being taken from them!! it’s an obama marxist conspiracy to silence the truth tellers!! hurr durr!!

wouldn’t it be ironic if the tea-baggers actually protested this to a solution?? lol

sorry for the rant. short-version – i agree with you. also, comcast purchasing controlling interest in NBC can’t be a good thing either, can it??