We cancelled our Dish Network service today. It's not really anything that's Dish's fault (well, the HD is kinda crappy and in my particular area Comcast's is marginally better)...it's more Verizon DSL's fault since we had no internet service for nine days and were thus prompted to switch to a...
Yes, New York, please waste $4 million on a scrubby little agitator instead of, I don't know, some offensive talent that ISN'T 6,000 years old and well into the decline phases of their careers. :D
Signed,
Penguins fan
No, but they remove the truck(s) outside the arena with the equipment in it that processes the HD feed. HD is gonna be more expensive to produce, and they aren't going to waste it on hockey in LA, which I would guess gets terrible ratings (especially relative to Lakers basketball). Here in...
I think they're just a bunch of two-faced hypocrites for trying to ram NFLN down everyone's throats, but not letting us all have access to Sunday Ticket.
Reading some things around the net, it appears that Cleveland is considered part of the Penguins' local television territory (Cleveland is also considered part of the Blue Jackets' territory). The fact that Cleveland area cable or satellite companies don't carry FSN Pittsburgh doesn't matter...
Maybe it was an SD/HD thing. I watched the entire Steelers game in HD and was able to put Survivor on after I read your post about it. I didn't even think to check the SD feeds.