Comcast After National Baseball Rights

Tabasco · Aug 22, 2005

It appears that Comcast is now trying to find a way to snatch national television rights for MLB games on Sunday and Wednesday, which are currently held by ESPN.

http://adweek.com/aw/regional/new_england/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001019001

Like a hungry shark circling its prey, Comcast and its Outdoor Life Network, now referred to as OLN, is continuing its low-key but determined move to take a bite out of cable sports kingpin ESPN.

Not only did it snatch away cable rights for the National Hockey League for the next several years, but now Comcast/OLN has set its sights on landing Major League Baseball's Sunday and Wednesday night cable package, the rights to which expire at the end of the current season.
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This irks me particularly because, as I noted previously, Comcast is dragging it's feet on dealing with the situation preventing us DC area locals from being able to see our Nats on television. Seems that true to form, they're ignoring the little guys in favor of the bigger fish, letting their local markets suffer while aiming for the bigtime cash.

rogvalcox · Aug 22, 2005

Hence the term..."Too Big for your own Britches"!!!!!

Roger

Kodo · Aug 22, 2005

ESPN , sports channels and other sports programming should be its' own separate package so I don't have to waste my money on that crap.

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