DIRECTV vs Time Warner Cable
One of the best things about modern cable and satellite television is the explosion of sports programming now available to customers across the country. While 20 years ago you might find two college football games on Saturday and two pro games on Sunday, today you can literally pick from two dozen or more games every weekend. Even the NCAA tournament has additional coverage with the Mega March Madness on Direct TV.
The motto today is “Content is King” and as the saying goes the sports networks of course want to deliver as much content as possible to the sports fan so they can make more money on advertising. Lots of new all-sports channels have sprung up in the past few years. Included among these are Altitude Sports, which carries Nuggets from Denver and Colorado Avalanche matches, and also the Big Ten Network and the mtn, the broadcast home of the Mountain West conference.
Sure these channels are good for folks in certain regions of the country, but disagreements between the providers of content and cable networks that deliver the content have brought difficulties to the customer. Consider what happened last fall, the Big Ten Network began broadcasting in 2007, but the network was in a carraige dispute with cable TV provider Time Warner. Customers of Time Warner in the midwest were not able to see some of the local teams play due to this dispute. Finally however, the companies involved came to an agreement before the fall football season, so customers could remain with with Time Warner rather than having to switch over to one of the satellite television companies such as DISH Network or DirecTV. An important thing to do when considering providers is to consider all factors, comparing DIRECTV against Time Warner.
Specialized sports programming packages are another option hard core sports fans should consider. Many Comcast customers have switched to DirecTV because the NFL Sunday ticket is exlusively on satellite. This has upset some pay television subscribers, who do not understand why a package Sunday Ticket isn’t available to every provider, especially a bicompany like Time Warner. Alternative sports packages though are more friendly to subscribers, like the NHL Center Ice and the NBA League Pass, which are available on almost every cable TV and satellite company. DIRECTV seems to have all of the premium sports packages like the NFL Sunday Ticket package.
