Just when you thought, the franchise was dead another post in the battle of good against evil (check out Jenna’s blog about the Comcast). Kind of like the Indiana Jones flicks I am blowing the dust off for another sequel!
Well if you tried dumping Comcast Cable for “The Dish” than you soon realized that Comcast cock blocked “The Dish” from providing you with about 80 percent of the Flyers, Sixers and Phillies games. You see Comcast not only owns the Flyers and the Sixers, but their exclusive telecast rights along with most of the Phillies games so they can force and feed “The Dish” provides to blackout out the broadcast in the local market. To make matter worse they totally black out Comcast Sportsnet altogether from “The Dish” so when you do get games (the occasional national not even regional feed from the networks) its not local coverage. If you are lucky you can pick up Philly games on MSG of course that’s only when they play New York teams. That explains why many Sportsbars must have Cable even if they have “The Dish”. Some places can’t even put our games one for us, because of the cock block.
If you read my earlier articles, you know that if a cable company comes they would have to run their own money to provide cable wires to run to homes. In other words unlike phone companies who share the phone lines Comcast also OWNS the cable lines. If I read the law right that passed (something McGreevey has been pushing for since Nov.) on Monday that will know longer be the case. The law also requires all complaints against the cable company to be registered by the State Board of Public Utilities. They better start hiring!
Although I don’t believe that Comcast will have to provide their own channels to competition. If they do they might make you pay extra for it so they still get money when people use their competitors. Since the competition’s customers will most likely want to see their favorite teams their basic plans will likely have to be cheaper than Comcast just so they can attract customers.
Regardless this is a step in the right direction and the future of cable in this state is going to change. Comcast has already anticipated this and is using their ad time as propaganda about how great their customer service is. I guess people without direct incidents with their lying and deception might fall for this. However after the Comcast Sportsnet disaster I doubt that there are many people that didn’t have problems and if they didn’t their local bars certainly might have.
At least perhaps the possibility for other companies to come into the market have gone from literally zero to I would say 30 percent at this point. There is a slight tear in the armor of evil that has deemed most of the eastern US as COMCAST COUNTRY.
I wonder if the Governor despite being a North Jersey lover is secretly a Philly sports fan.
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