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Carol Anne



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PostPosted: 01/04/17 6:51 pm    ::: Comcast Dumps Fox Sports Channels Reply Reply with quote

"After December 31, 2016, Comcast will no longer distribute the three Fox College Sports Channels - Fox College Sports Atlantic, Fox College Sports Central and Fox College Sports Pacific. These channels are currently included with the Sports and Entertainment Package."

Will my cable bill go down as a result? Rolling Eyes Hoping this will be negotiated and the channels come back for women's basketball season.


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PostPosted: 01/04/17 7:03 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

As of today, my 3 Fox channels are saying
"The business agreement between this network and Comcast has expired and we are no longer able to offer this programming. We apologize for the inconvenience." FS1 is still working. Was this initiated by Comcast or Fox Sports?


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PostPosted: 01/04/17 7:37 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Yeah, just in time for the Baylor-WVU game. Grrrrrrr. Thank goodness for Apple TV.



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PostPosted: 01/05/17 8:08 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

"It looks like Comcast came to an agreement with several Fox networks. FCS will not come back due to low ratings:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/comcast-reaches-carriage-deal-with-fox-news-1483300195?mod=pls_whats_new..."

Official answer on Comcast forum. I don't subscribe to the WSJ, so I can't access it. Whatever happened to cable TV's "long tail" of niche programming?


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PostPosted: 01/05/17 10:22 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

These other reports make it sound like the regional sports channels will return as well.

http://seekingalpha.com/news/3232961-comcast-reaches-carriage-deal-fox-news

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/fox-news-comcast-carriage-deal-yes-network-1201951012/


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PostPosted: 01/05/17 11:38 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Those channels seem to show a higher proportion of women's basketball and they will re-run WBB games late at night and even the next day. The Big-12 WBB teams from Oklahoma and Kansas get good coverage on one of them.


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PostPosted: 01/13/17 4:07 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

There's now a notice on the Fox Sports channels that soon you will be able to stream their content on Xfinity.com or the Xfinity mobile app.


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PostPosted: 01/13/17 5:16 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Last night I had to go through a whole rigamarole of activating them AGAIN....and then there was nothing worth watching on their channels anyway Razz



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PostPosted: 02/01/17 8:23 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Comcast Forum: The Fox college sports stations are on the Xfinity TV app (website and app)
Options: Atlantic Pacific Central

Why the Texas/OSU game is on "Pacific," I don't know, but I can see it! Very Happy


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PostPosted: 02/02/17 11:28 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Are those channels in HD? When I had Cablevision cable, they were SD.



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PostPosted: 02/02/17 3:41 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

cthskzfn wrote:
Are those channels in HD? When I had Cablevision cable, they were SD.


The three FCS channels are only in SD. (My TV is nearly 12 years old, so that's no problem!)


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PostPosted: 02/06/17 1:50 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I had all 3 of those channels in HD


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