New England Cable News

[Kevin Vahey]

And Comcast doesn't allow dish services access to their sports nets in 
the Mid Atlantic markets.



On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 2:12pm, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:20:08 -0500, Mark Laurence 
> <mlaurence@mindspring.com> said:
>
>>  On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 03:39  PM, Larry Weil wrote:
>
>>>  At 03:15 PM 12/20/2003, Bill O'Neill wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Does anyone know why NECN is not carried on the Dish Network?
>>>
>>>  Probably because it's half owned by a cable company.
>
>>  More likely because Dish and DirecTV don't want to use up their scarce
>>  transponder space on regional channels except for sports, which of
>
> I'm given to understand that Comcast considers NECN to have
> substantial marketing value (or at least its predecessor, AT&T, did),
> and will not permit DBS systems to offer it.
>
> -GAWollman