posted under: NFL Network, Time Warner Cable sucks
Yet Another Rant On Time Warner Cable
So training camp is underway and the first preseason games are just around the corner and I just have to ask, why am I still not getting the NFL Network on Time Warner Cable? (And before anyone mentions it, my line of sight to the south is blocked so satellite TV isn’t an option.) Why is TWC flipping the bird to all the football fans in Green Bay, Dallas, and New York? One would think that since the league is putting eight regular season games on its 24-hour cable channel, that would be reason enough to carry the NFL Network but I guess the fucktards at TWC don’t see it that way. Well, the NFL is upping the ante.
This week the NFL Network is launching a huge ad campaign targeting those football markets where TWC is the dominant carrier with the message “Don’t let Time Warner Cable ruin your football season” trying to foment consumer outrage against the big cable company. And I urge everyone to call, write, or to just go to their local TWC office and demand that they carry the NFL Network. I realize that even in the face of overwhelming consumer demand those douchebags at TWC will probably not budge, but at least we can say that we tried.
Of course, things aren’t nearly as bad for us current TWC slaves as it is for Adelphia customers about to become serfs and minions in the TWC empire. Adelphia just started carrying the NFL Network at the end of last season in January, but now just as those people were about to reap the full benefits TWC swoops in and takes over those cable systems and now the NFL Network will get dropped in those areas. All those poor bastards really have reason to bitch.
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August 1st, 2006 at 9:43 am
You can solve your problem by switching from cable to DirecTV. Best move I ever made. By
the way, NFL Network had a nice one hour feature on GB training camp last night.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Unfortunately that’s a no go. (See parenthetical on blocked line of sight.)
November 27th, 2007 at 11:29 am
[...] I’ve made no secret here of my ill feelings towards Time Warner Cable, but it goes far beyond their refusal to really negotiate with the NFL on this issue. I dislike any kind of gatekeeper that dictates what content we can and cannot access; it’s an outdated business model that has reached the end of its usefulness, but the cable companies have refused to let go. If someone somewhere launched a competing television service that offered true choices to the customer it would all but kill Big Cable and any other service that limits consumers to a small slice of the content available. [...]