FS1

Kevin Vahey kvahey@gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 01:15:02 EDT 2013


On DirecTV (625)

In Chicago Universal was on WMAQ 5.2 but it was pulled - and Comcast
doesn't carry it there either.

Makes no sense.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>wrote:

> <<On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:54:01 -0400, "Mark Watson" <markwats@comcast.net>
> said:
>
> >   Compared to ESPN, NBC Sports Network and CBS Sports Network, how many
> > cable subscribers get the Speed network?
>
> More to the point: how many cable subs *know* that they get Speed?
>
> I certainly couldn't tell you whether I get it or not without going
> into the channel settings on my TiVo to enable it.  I suppose the poor
> shlubs who are stuck with cableco-provided boxes don't have the option
> of disabling channels they have no interest in, but if they put
> national baseball games on FS1, I suppose I'll have little choice but
> to enable it (assuming I get it at all).  I can't see having any
> interest in anything else Murdoch might air.
>
> Anyone know the current status of Universal Sports?  Comcast kicked it
> off our system at the end of 2011, and they own(ed) a quarter of it.
>
> -GAWollman
>


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