Re: Comcast local programming?

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

A bigger question
What does Hearst want to do with NECN?

NECN has never gained a footprint in RI thru COX and I don't know the 
current status in Maine with Time-Warner.

NECN has never reached the status that NY1 has in Manhattan on CLTV in 
Chicago.


On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 9:56PM -0500, Sean Smyth wrote:
> Kevin Vahey <k-vahey@attbi.com> writes:
>>  perhaps this is a hint of what we may expect in the future from 
>> Comcast
>>
>>  http://www.cn8.tv/default.asp
>>
>>
>>  Now what will they call it here?
>>
>>  as far as web addresses they have locked up comcast3.com
>>  cn3.com is owned by someone in Hong Kong but cn3.tv is available
>
> Let me say that Comcast does a good job programming its cable channels 
> (CN8
> and Comcast Sports Net in Philly and the Mid-Atlantic, among them). I
> briefly lived within CN8's distribution area this summer and was 
> impressed
> with the product...I'd say it was definitely superior to New England 
> Cable
> News in terms of production and content.
>
> Hence lies the problem, though: I'm almost positive Comcast still owns 
> a
> good chunk of NECN (50 percent?) and I doubt they'd go with a CN3 to 
> compete
> with that product. Though CN8's programming is not exclusively news 
> (they
> air high school football games from throughout metro Philly and have 
> an
> equivalent of Mike Adams' old Sportsworld program) it relies very much 
> on
> topical talk programs. Maybe part of this whole thing involves gutting 
> NECN?