Altitude and Comcast reach carriage agreement, end six-year blackout
"The real winners today are the fans."
"The real winners today are the fans."
The service will be available on Xfinity and DirecTV, and the league will launch a Sunday Night Soccer package available without a subscription.
Like other similar offerings, there are some key channels missing.
NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California will be placed in a higher tier, effective immediately.
The recently-launched Chicago Sports Network remains dark on Chicago's largest distributor, Comcast.
TNT's loss of NBA rights was a significant point of discussion in negotiations.
The resurrection of Diamond Sports and the Comcast spinoff are both signs that the cable TV universe may not be dead just yet.
"It's probably just a microcosm of our larger industry."
The move will include its news assets MSNBC and CNBC, entertainment assets USA, Oxygen, E!, and Syfy, and its lone remaining sports cable network Golf Channel.
"We share your frustration and encourage you to continue to voice your concerns."
Comcast customers in Chicago have already missed out on two Blackhawks regular season games due to the dispute.
Negotiations between the two sides can be described as "day to day and hour to hour."
Xfinity TV customers in California, Oregon, and Washington will now have full access to Big Ten Network.
Comcast and Scripps Sports have failed to reach a carriage agreement that would see the distributor carry local affiliate KUPX (Utah 16).
New Big Ten Network fans on the west coast have already missed games with no signs of an end to a dispute with Comcast.
Wait, this account is still active?
"I did what any old man would do: I called."
"That’s going to be their entire play."
The Diamond Sports Group has a lifeline to survival thanks to a new Comcast agreement.
Comcast and Diamond are making progress on critical carriage negotiations.
Some of Peacock's Q1 subscriber gains were lost in Q2, and their Q3 performance will be closely watched around the Olympics.
While revealing details of their NBA rights deal, NBC also broke the news that it will air WNBA Finals games in the years to come.