They must be breaking out their Burbury scarfs down in hell for the first time since damnation, because today I find myself siding with Comcast.
Of course, I’m simultaneously siding against Rupert Murdoch, so, I guess this isn’t all that strange.
Fox is trying to push the The Big Ten Network on us. When Comcast and Time-Warner cable systems (who control most of the market share in the Big Ten area) said they wouldn’t include the channel in their basic lineup, Fox Networks (who own BTN) decided to blame Comcast for the reason I can’t watch the University of Michigan’s home opener tomorrow.
Comcast has responded with a fairly logical, “Consumers are tired of getting expensive channels they don’t want to watch. … We don’t think that the vast majority of our customers who are not interested in it should pay to enrich 11 universities and Fox.”
While the Fox honcho says “I personally will not be satisfied until all Big Ten fans can watch all Big Ten games.”
Hey BTN, I didn’t have any problem watching all the games last year. I appreciate your attempt to make some more money, more power to you, but you lost so instead of trying to blame someone else, man up and put the fucking game back on Channel 7.