Goto ESPN.COM and you will get a Pop up that says Cox Cable wants to take ESPN away from you and they you should switch to SATV.
This must be why Cox is going up $20. Guess I will stay with Dish even though the HDTV is not all there yet. I am glad I waited for Dish. Sounds like HDTV is around the corner now with the 811 model.
Pasted Text from the ESPN press release and on there web site:
1. It's about Cox Cable margins, not protecting the consumer
Like all cable operators, Cox Cable provides its customers with a great product at a great price. But it is patently absurd to suggest that what Cox Cable offers would be better if ESPN were to be ripped out of basic and placed on an extra-fee tier by Cox Cable, or dropped, as Cox Cable has threatened, from its systems altogether.
Cox Cable's effort to blame ESPN for its retail pricing decisions is just plain wrong. For Cox Cable, this is contract negotiation rhetoric directed solely at improving its already healthy, growing 35% margin business (Cox Cable 2002 10-K).
This must be why Cox is going up $20. Guess I will stay with Dish even though the HDTV is not all there yet. I am glad I waited for Dish. Sounds like HDTV is around the corner now with the 811 model.
Pasted Text from the ESPN press release and on there web site:
1. It's about Cox Cable margins, not protecting the consumer
Like all cable operators, Cox Cable provides its customers with a great product at a great price. But it is patently absurd to suggest that what Cox Cable offers would be better if ESPN were to be ripped out of basic and placed on an extra-fee tier by Cox Cable, or dropped, as Cox Cable has threatened, from its systems altogether.
Cox Cable's effort to blame ESPN for its retail pricing decisions is just plain wrong. For Cox Cable, this is contract negotiation rhetoric directed solely at improving its already healthy, growing 35% margin business (Cox Cable 2002 10-K).