MLB Network on premium tier?

[hmglaz@att.net]

Found this in Wikipedia's "MLB Network" entry. Seems Comcast got MLB to change the original agreement:

Comcast does not carry this channel on their "Digital Starter" package, even though the network was initially supposed to be carried on "digital cable at the "digital basic" or equivalent level of service." according to the MLB Network website at the beginning of 2009. The language on the MLB Network website was later updated to "expanded digital basic cable or the equivalent."

Howard

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>
>
> It maybe a headend problem.
> 
> Cambridge and Chelmsford have it on 269 and in both cases the sports
> tier is not bought.
> 
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> 
> On 1/27/09, Howard Glazer <hmglaz@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > So Comcast (and Time Warner and several other cable titans) owns a share of
> > the MLB Network yet is still treating it the same way it treats the NFL
> > Network? And Bud Selig is fine with this? I don't get it.
> >
> > Howard
> >
> > Maureen Carney <m_carney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It (along with NBA TV, NFL Network, NHL Network, Fox Soccer Channel,
> > Tennis Channel and some others) is in the sports package and not included
> > with standard digital.
> >>
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> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Bob Nelson <raccoonradio@gmail.com>
> >> To: Howard Glazer <hmglaz@worldnet.att.net>
> >> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:16:33 AM
> >> Subject: Re: MLB Network on premium tier?
> >>
> >> I don't have it either in Beverly. I have expanded basic and I get the
> >> "you are not authorized to view this channel" message. A friend in
> >> Ohio (with Time-Warner Roadrunner, I think) has it.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Howard Glazer <hmglaz@worldnet.att.net>
> > wrote:
> >> > I was visiting family in Swampscott over the weekend. They have
> > Comcast's
> >> > standard digital package, so I figured I'd check to see whether the MLB
> >> > Network had been added yet. It was there (channel 269, I think), but
> > what
> >> > came up on the screen was the "You are not subscribed" notice
> >>
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> >