RangerBoy
Dolan sucks!!!
MLB has reportedly reached a deal with DIRECTV to make the MLB Extra Innings package exclusive to DIRECTV starting in 2009.The deal hasn't been announced yet but there has been a significant backlash from digital cable and Dish Network customers
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/20/sports/baseball/20base.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
An extra $30 million.$1 million per.A utility IF costs $1 million
Here comes the NHL tie
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6404687.html
I read an article in the Sports Business Journal in late December that DIRECTV approached the NHL about doing an exclusive deal with DIRECTV for NHL CI but the NHL said no
It looks the NHL CI will not be taking the MLB route of taking their package to DIRECTV
Comcast and Cablevision are two of the biggest cable operators in the United States and both are NHL partners.I wonder if indemand doesn't attempt to make NHL CI exclusive to indemand/digital cable customers.The cable companies are refusing to add the NFL network because of the NFL's agreement with DIRECTV
Extra Innings has been available to 75 million cable households and the two satellite services, DirecTV and the Dish Network. But the new agreement will take it off cable and Dish because DirecTV has agreed to pay $700 million over seven years, according to three executives briefed on the details of the contract but not authorized to speak about them publicly.
InDemand, which has distributed Extra Innings to the cable television industry since 2002, made an estimated $70 million bid to renew its rights, more than triple what it has been paying. Part of its offer included the right to carry the new baseball channel, but not exclusively
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/20/sports/baseball/20base.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
An extra $30 million.$1 million per.A utility IF costs $1 million
Here comes the NHL tie
Next up on cable’s out-of-market docket: the National Hockey League’s “NHL Center Ice” package, which expires after the 2006-07 season.
An NHL spokesman would only say that it has begun discussions on potential renewals with current partners
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6404687.html
I read an article in the Sports Business Journal in late December that DIRECTV approached the NHL about doing an exclusive deal with DIRECTV for NHL CI but the NHL said no
In addition to talks with MLB, DirecTV has approached the NHL about its out-of-market package, media sources said. The NHL demurred, since it has a rights deal with Comcast-owned network Versus
It looks the NHL CI will not be taking the MLB route of taking their package to DIRECTV
Comcast and Cablevision are two of the biggest cable operators in the United States and both are NHL partners.I wonder if indemand doesn't attempt to make NHL CI exclusive to indemand/digital cable customers.The cable companies are refusing to add the NFL network because of the NFL's agreement with DIRECTV