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**saopinax** · 06-01-2010, 02:07 PM

This is TC's own press release, so read it with an understanding that there is a slant to it. But they are trying to get off the Sports Premium Tier that Comcast has them confined to, and get to a more basic package (along with the ESPNs, Versus, the Golf channel...).

Comcast is the largest cable network in the country, so if TC is successful before the FCC, it would put the Tennis Channel in about another 23.3 million homes (less those that subscribe to the premium sports tier).

This should be interesting to follow. I hope Tennis Channel is successful.

Moose I posted an article from the Times dealing with the same issues. TC is on a premium tier with Cablevision too so I am sure Cablevision will soon face the same issues. We just lost Foodnetwork and HGTV because Cablevision doesn't want to pay .25 cents per subscriber.

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saopinax Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	This is TC's own press release, so read it with an understanding that there is a slant to it. But they are trying to get off the Sports Premium Tier that Comcast has them confined to, and get to a more basic package (along with the ESPNs, Versus, the Golf channel...). Comcast is the largest cable network in the country, so if TC is successful before the FCC, it would put the Tennis Channel in about another 23.3 million homes (less those that subscribe to the premium sports tier). This should be interesting to follow. I hope Tennis Channel is successful. Moose I posted an article from the Times dealing with the same issues. TC is on a premium tier with Cablevision too so I am sure Cablevision will soon face the same issues. We just lost Foodnetwork and HGTV because Cablevision doesn't want to pay .25 cents per subscriber.
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