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Review of DirecTV (7 months later) — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:45:41 +0000

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By: kosmo

kosmo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:01:27 +0000

That’s a bummer that you don’t have a choice for coverage of local teams. There are “local” teams for which we would have coverage on cable or satellite (or over the air, in some cases).

Iowa doesn’t have a dominant home market, though. Cubs and White Sox games are easy to get, and sometimes Cardinals and Twins. NFL coverage is usually a mix of Vikings, Bears, Packers, depending on who is going well at the time.

Unfortunately, for out of market NFL games, DirecTV is the only option. And in my city, that’s also the case for MLB. Some cable companies offer MLB Extra Innings, but not ours …
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By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:56:43 +0000

I don’t really have much of a choice with TV. Comcast Sportnet Philadelphia is one of the few, and maybe the only, local sports channel in the nation that doesn’t offer its programming to satellite. They rely on a loophole in FCC regulations, because they get the games via fiber-optic cable rather than satellite (unlike every other Comcast Sportsnet station, I think): http://bit.ly/3rHZi3

So, if I want to watch the Phillies, plus the hours and hours of Phillies and Eagles coverage each week, I can’t switch.

I can’t say I’m unhappy with it, but it would be nice to have a choice.
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