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Leftovers: Comcast, Etc.• Hey, look, SportsNet NY is available on satellite but Comcast SportsNet isn’t. On the plus side, there will (hopefully!) be no more astroturfing by Comcast PR flak as Comcast and the Big Ten Network are close to reaching an agreement. Oh, boy, how do I love Comcast minutiae. [Inquirer, Philly Business Journal] • By now you’ve read about Beau Zabel, the future Philly public school teacher/Starbucks employee shot and killed yesterday at 8th and Ellsworth. And now the Inquirer is asking if he was killed for his iPod. Be sure to read the comments, as usual. [Inquirer] • Oh, yeah, the SEPTA cops are back on the job. [SEPTA Watch] • Meanwhile, police are going to start issuing “positive tickets” for kids who do good deeds. “In turn, the tickets could be redeemed at several businesses for rewards, such as a free slice of pizza.” So it’s like Book-It, kinda. [AP/NBC 10] • Legendary music venue J.C. Dobbs will soon re-open on South Street. [Philebrity] • Let’s get pumped for two big future-of-Philadelphia forums coming soon to (just wait) Philadelphia. [The Illadelph] • Bonus! Headline of the day: What’s happening to M. Knight [Shyamalan]? |
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SportsNet New York is owned by three companies - New York Mets, Time Warner, and Comcast. In fact SNY’s midtown studio’s are ex-CNN.
One of the reasons SNY is available on satellite is because the Mets wanted it that way so they not only make the New York diaspora happy but to get more revenue. Plus there there is not one dominant cable company in the tri-state area, so there is no reason for having that exclusive. Interestingly the thing that gets touted as a cable exclusive is NY1, possibly owing to the fact that people in the tri-state care about things other than sports and are less sports obsessed since they do have other things going for them.
Reading between the lines of the article:
If you could care less about Philadelphia sports (like us) and don’t want to pay Comcast absurd amounts of money to subsidize a channel that you are never going to watch, get a satellite dish.
Now the cops bribing kids with food thing. Someone is going to sue since they are promoting obesity.
Comcast always acts like the no CSN on satellite is something outside their control, but they specifically lobbied for the continuation of the exemption that allows it when the federal regs were recently rewritten. Basically, they agreed to regulations that prohibited witholding RSNs from providers everywhere else in the country, if they could get an exemption for Philadelphia.