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Hey Sports fans! Every day is game-day here at Bright House Networks. Year-round,
we bring you the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, NCAA match-ups, MLB, NASCAR, Major League Soccer, golf,
tennis and more. Bright House Networks has you covered no matter which sport is
your sport.
Your thirst for more sports programming has kept us busy, working with
a wide variety of networks to bring you more homeruns, more touchdowns and more
jump- shots without adding way more costs. We consider sports fans every day and
work hard to balance the increasing costs of today’s sports programming with customers’
desires to keep cable affordable for the entire family.
If you want to know more about all the sports programming available to you on Bright House Networks, you’re
in the right place. Click around this web site for new information, programming
guides for your area, and answers to questions you may have about sports programming.
We’d like to hear from you. Please contact us and tell us what you think.
LATEST INFORMATION
Big Ten Network
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We know that these games are very important to a select segment of our customers who live in Big Ten states. Like the NFL Network, we believe that the best place for this network is on a sports tier, so that customers who choose to pay more for this highly priced niche sports programming have access to it. The majority of our customers agree with our position.
ESPNU
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Customers can watch top college basketball rivalries and gridiron action among the nation’s top 25 teams during the 2007 season thanks to Bright House Networks launch of ESPNU. ESPNU televises more than 400 collegiate games, as well as Olympic sports competition from more than 20 Division 1 conferences, including the Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, Big East, MAC, SEC and Sun Belt conferences. Later this year, ESPNU is scheduled to air more than 150 men’s college basketball games and 40 women’s games featuring Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Syracuse and Texas teams. During the 2006 season, ESPNU aired more than 70 exclusive college football match-ups.
FSN (FOX Sports Network Florida)
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Some of the Orlando Magic games, which have aired on Bright House Networks every season since 1989, are no longer available because the Magic moved them from FOX-owned WRBW to FOX Sports Net (FSN) just before their season began October 31, 2007. We understand the frustration some of our customers are feeling; we are frustrated as well. We would very much like to find a resolution with FSN.
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FSN could air these games on their sister station Sun Sports if they wanted to while all parties involved continue conversations. Most Bright House Networks customers already pay for Sun Sports, which like FSN is owned by FOX. WRBW, the over-the-air broadcast channel where the Magic games used to be, is also a FOX company.
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Placing the Orlando Magic on multiple sports channels such as FOX Sun Sports and FSN and then asking customers to pay twice sets a dangerous precedent that will further contribute to already spiraling sports programming costs. What is to prevent FOX from asking for more channels and splitting the game coverage to three channels or four channels and making customers pay a third time and a fourth time? Only FOX sports has control over which programming they determine toplace on which if the networks that they own.
NFL Network
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The NFL Network appeals to only a small segment of our customers on a year-round basis and it is currently, priced high. We believe that the most appropriate place for this network is on a sports tier. Carriage in this manner permits customers who want to watch it to do so, but those who do not, won’t be forced to bear the costs associated with the network. The NFL, however, is still insisting that carriage be on a broadly based tier, which would result in customers that are not interested in the network bearing the cost of delivering it to the relatively few who want to watch the programming on a year-round basis.
NHL Network
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The NHL Network is the latest addition to the popular Bright House Networks Digital Sports Pack and is available at no additional charge to all Bright House Networks Digital Cable TV customers who subscribe to Digital Sports Pack. We are pleased to make NHL fans’ lives easier by being one of the first providers in the nation to offer the NHL Network. With this network, customers are privy to NHL Network programming that includes nine live NHL games, the network’s nightly signature program, “NHL On The Fly,” and exclusive NHL All-Access programming fans can’t see anywhere else. The NHL Network will carry up to 50 preseason and regular season NHL games during the 2007-2008 season.
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