Nothing until the contacts for channels come up for renewal. Then it's either they negotiate a new contract or the channel(s) are removed.
Note from DirecTV to Customers Regarding Versus
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Nothing until the contacts for channels come up for renewal. Then it's either they negotiate a new contract or the channel(s) are removed.
I find it interesting that I left Comcast for satellite due to lack of what I considered to be value for the price. Now a large corporation has a problem with what may be considered the same thing. I would like to know the real numbers but if 14 out of 75 million are now not seeing the NHL due to a cost problem, that is substantial. Not good for NHL business I would not think. Not to mention the people advertisers are now not reaching during broadcasts. I think it will be resolved but not before the truth is exposed. Someone may not be looking too good by the time this is over.
There is always Buffalo Wild Wings in a pinch -- they had a Versus feed up in the bar this evening.I just realized the Blues/Red Wings season opener is on VersusUgh
We had Universal Sports in HD during the Olympics, so why is it not in HD now??????????? The PQ is very Crappy on Universal Sports right now
Different channel. What was on during the Olympics was Universal HD. The channel that is on D* now is Universal SPORTS, which is intended as a digital OTA subchannel for NBC affiliates. The PQ is crappy because the channel itself is crappy, we FTA'ers see the master feed on C-band, its unscrambled, and it looks terrible there too...so it isn't D* doing it, in this case.
I wonder if they'd let me install a Slingbox temporarily?
This is incredibly frustrating, though. I switched from the local cable provider to DirecTV mainly because the cable co didn't carry FS-MW, and now DirecTV has no VS. I can't win. hehThat's a fantastic thought that hadn't crossed my mind, though. I might have to slip away from work to watch a period!
If you really wanna see what it looks like, take a ride to Slidell one day and I'll show ya.
I wonder if they'd let me install a Slingbox temporarily?
That's a fantastic thought that hadn't crossed my mind, though. I might have to slip away from work to watch a period!
why not both?
i have several customers that do both cable and D*
To be frank, I'm being stubborn and shouldn't have to shell out extra for two services.
The whole point I signed with DirecTV is so I could get FS-MW, ESPN, and VS all in one place for the Blues games. Now VS is gone. If I do any switching at all, it would be from DirecTV to Dish to once again get all of the channels.
However, as disappointed as I am, I'm getting more level headed as I get older (though I'm not old--so I'm pretty hot tempered still!). I'll hold out for a few weeks, hoping to see the contract re-negotiated in that timeframe.
Eh, you know what'll happen then. You'll get hooked up with a 2 year commitment with dish and then comcast will pull versus off of them as well
I suppose all you folks have written to the sports leagues and to your local congresscritters about this situation that prevents you from watching your sports programming? There was plenty of political action around the NFL's decision to air the Pats/Giants final game of the season a couple of years ago only on the NFL network.
I suppose all you folks have written to the sports leagues and to your local congresscritters about this situation that prevents you from watching your sports programming? There was plenty of political action around the NFL's decision to air the Pats/Giants final game of the season a couple of years ago only on the NFL network.
No logger comcrap only and comcast DOES NOT HAVE IT HD.
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and I e-mailed them asking about it on direct tv and they said they are working on it and to contack direct tv to request it. If you want it request it as well.
Too funny! I just saw a Comcast commercial during the Redskins broadcast (CBS) stating that "DirecTV has dropped Versus" and to call "1-888-888-3778" to get Versus back on DirecTV. I am not sure who is right or wrong in this dispute (probably both are culpable), but Comcast is taking DirecTV to the woodshed when it comes to PR, and having the NHL behind Comcast/Versus does not bode well for DirecTV.
I guess thats a fair and accurate statement. Directv could have paid the bill and continued to offer the channel, but elected to drop it instead.
Of course, it'd also be a fair statement for Directv to say that Comcast is being unfair to Directv with regards to the pricing, wants too much money for the channel and that Directv isnt willing to pass on the costs to their customers.
Of course, it'd also be a fair statement for Directv to say that Comcast is being unfair to Directv with regards to the pricing, wants too much money for the channel and that Directv isnt willing to pass on the costs to their customers.
Only if you read DTV's spin. They're ranting and raving about this outrageous increase and spouting off how it's 20%. What they don't say is that it's really $0.04 per subscriber and they're not looking to hold down anything except their own cost.
By pushing it into the sports pack, anyone that wants it will have to pay $13/month or so and for the 6-8 million subs that don't DTV, won't have to pay a dime. So they save somewhere around 1-1.5 million a month and increase their bottom line with new sports pack subscribers.
This is money grab by DirecTV. Plain and simple. To be honest I'm shocked that a company that has consistently overpaid for sports programming is nickel and diming on this one channel.
One thing for sure, they are losing the PR war badly. I'd be a lot more sympathetic if they just came out and told the truth.
This is the argument I have a problem with. Depending on which report you read, they want to either bump it from $0.21/mo to $0.26/mo per subscriber or from $0.30/mo to $0.36/mo. So we're talking about 5 or 6 cents.
This is why I find it lame: DirecTV had no problems pushing a $3/mo price increase on every subscriber back in March citing increased programming costs as the reason for doing so. Now that a contract is up for renewal and there is going to be a price increase they took the channel down? Where did that extra $3/mo go? It's not like every channel was up for a contract renewal this year so most of the prices remain fixed. Does anyone really think that for the first time ever next March they won't increase prices again?
It's not like Versus is an expensive network when it comes to sports. ESPN demands about $3.50/mo per subscriber, TNT gets about $1/mo, and Versus is somewhere between $0.20 - $0.30, and is only available in the top basic programming package for DirecTV (Choice Xtra).
I guess I'm just glad that the last time I was a big hockey fan, Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito were still in their prime.
But even now Universal Sports is no longer a channel offered I asked to a CSR a few days and he said the only reason Universal Sports was on the AIR was that we can watch the La Vuelta a España.. And now the channel is gone…. T he commentators they had, had no clue what they where taking about half the time…
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