NHL Center Ice on Satellite TV

One of the great things about modern cable and satellite TV is all of the sports that is now available to subscribers across the United States. Specialized sports packages give the customer access to nearly 30 pro and college football games every weekend.

The motto today is “Content is King” and as the saying goes the networks want to bring as much sports content as possible to the viewer so they can sell more ads. Lots of new all-sports channels have popped up over the past few years. Some of these include Altitude Sports, which carries Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche matches, as well as the Big 10 network and the Mountian, the broadcast home of the Mountain West conference.

Certainly these new channels are great for fans in certain areas, disputes between the providers of content and those who deliver the content have brought trouble at times to the customer. For example, the Big Ten Network began broadcasting in 2007, but the network was in a carraige dispute with cable TV provider Time Warner. Subscribers of Time Warner in Wisconsin were unable to see some of the local teams play due to this dispute. Finally however, the parties came to terms before the fall football season, so customers could remain with with Time Warner rather than having to switch to one of the satellite television providers like DISH Network or Direct TV.

Out of market sports packages are another consideration for the customer. The NFL Sunday Ticket package is exclusive to DirecTV, so if you want this package, you have to switch. 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 bundles though are more friendly to subscribers, like the NHL out of market package and the NBA League Pass, which are available on almost every cable TV and satellite company.

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