Comcast shoves California sports teams into more expensive cable tier
NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California will be placed in a higher tier, effective immediately.
NBC Sports Bay Area and NBC Sports California will be placed in a higher tier, effective immediately.
The recently-launched Chicago Sports Network remains dark on Chicago's largest distributor, Comcast.
TNT's loss of NBA rights was a significant point of discussion in negotiations.
"It's probably just a microcosm of our larger industry."
The move will include its news assets MSNBC and CNBC, entertainment assets USA, Oxygen, E!, and Syfy, and its lone remaining sports cable network Golf Channel.
Comcast customers in Chicago have already missed out on two Blackhawks regular season games due to the dispute.
Negotiations between the two sides can be described as "day to day and hour to hour."
Xfinity TV customers in California, Oregon, and Washington will now have full access to Big Ten Network.
Comcast and Scripps Sports have failed to reach a carriage agreement that would see the distributor carry local affiliate KUPX (Utah 16).
"I did what any old man would do: I called."
The Diamond Sports Group has a lifeline to survival thanks to a new Comcast agreement.
Comcast and Diamond are making progress on critical carriage negotiations.
Some of Peacock's Q1 subscriber gains were lost in Q2, and their Q3 performance will be closely watched around the Olympics.
Comcast has added another smaller bundle of streaming channels to its offerings.
Unfortunately, that means those fans will have to watch the Marlins.
The bundle includes Apple TV+, Netflix, and Peacock.
Comcast is entering the streaming bundle party.
Comcast took a hard line approach with the Bally Sports RSNs that it's not applying to its own RSNs.
Comcast and MASN have a deal, but it doesn't restore the status quo.
The Orioles' news ownership group is likely to play a role in the negotiations.
Peacock subscriptions exceeded Comcast's year-end goal from last year, while losses were also lower than expected.
Paramount and Comcast have avoided a potentially ugly carriage dispute.
Peacock subscriptions surged heading into football season.
It turns out the Pac-12 Network overpayment scandal was worse than we even thought.