Awful Announcing
Charter's decision to join Comcast's streaming device/smart TV project rather than do their own gives the combined venture significant scale, and perhaps paves the way for some eventual OTT service bundling deals.
NBCSN perhaps never hit the heights NBC envisioned, but it still had a large effect on the sports landscape.
The new agreement also secures continued SEC Network distribution.
Comcast, of course, owns some of these regional sports networks, which makes things even murkier.
On the day of the Cubs' first regular-season game of 2020, Comcast customers in Chicago are finally able to watch Marquee Sports Network.
"The contracts between the leagues, the programmers, the distributors don't line up. And there are different rights that exist between the agreements between each of the parties. And in some cases, the form of refund could be in kind."
Pay TV subscriptions fell by record-setting 1.8 million in the first quarter of 2020, according to a new report.
"It is grossly unfair that cable and satellite television providers would continue to charge fees for services they are not even providing."
Marquee looks a lot better financially if they're able to strike a deal with Comcast and gain access to large numbers of Comcast's 1.56 million Chicago-area subscribers. We'll see if that happens, though.
So that could have gone better, Tom.
The lawsuit claims Comcast "wants to extinguish competition from Altitude so that Comcast can pocket more of the money it takes from consumers each month for sports programming."
"This is going to supercharge what will already be a lucrative three or four-month period at the end of the year for us."
