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Directv question
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Priceless
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Re: Directv question
You have to buy the sports package, but it's worth it. The college hockey alone is worth the price. Be aware that if you are outside NESN's home market you are still subject to blackouts (so the Red Sox and Bruins will be blacked out on NESN, and the Celtics will be blacked out on Comcast Sportsnet).
Edit: Your profile says you're from Boston...I think you should have NESN. Call customer service and check.
You have to buy the sports package, but it's worth it. The college hockey alone is worth the price. Be aware that if you are outside NESN's home market you are still subject to blackouts (so the Red Sox and Bruins will be blacked out on NESN, and the Celtics will be blacked out on Comcast Sportsnet).
Edit: Your profile says you're from Boston...I think you should have NESN. Call customer service and check.
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
Re: Directv question
As Priceless said you should be getting NESN. I do think that you can buy individual channels. I add that when one buys the sports package, major league games are still blacked out. You have to buy the league packages to see them, however you do get everything shown on the local sports channel with the basic package.
As Priceless said you should be getting NESN. I do think that you can buy individual channels. I add that when one buys the sports package, major league games are still blacked out. You have to buy the league packages to see them, however you do get everything shown on the local sports channel with the basic package.
JF_Gophers
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Re: Directv question
NESN is only in the sports pack or the Premier package normally. There is also not an option to add single channels with the exception of really expensive ones like Playboy, Setanta, etc.
NESN is only in the sports pack or the Premier package normally. There is also not an option to add single channels with the exception of really expensive ones like Playboy, Setanta, etc.
Ralph Baer
Let's Go 'Tute!
Re: Directv question
But he lives in Boston. Don't you have a local sports channel included?
But he lives in Boston. Don't you have a local sports channel included?
walrus
Wind up workin' in a gas station
Re: Directv question
I thought it was in the choice package also, I was looking yesterday to see if a switch to Direct was worth doing
I thought it was in the choice package also, I was looking yesterday to see if a switch to Direct was worth doing
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Priceless
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Re: Directv question
Comcast Sportsnet (formerly the Fox Sports affiliate) must be the "free" Boston station. They have Celtics games; the Bruins and Sox are on NESN. With the sports pack you get all the sports nets, Fox Soccer, ESPN Classic, YES, Fox College Sports etc. Definitely worth the price if you can afford it.
And the special $100 offer that's in my sig is only good until the end of the year...
Comcast Sportsnet (formerly the Fox Sports affiliate) must be the "free" Boston station. They have Celtics games; the Bruins and Sox are on NESN. With the sports pack you get all the sports nets, Fox Soccer, ESPN Classic, YES, Fox College Sports etc. Definitely worth the price if you can afford it.
And the special $100 offer that's in my sig is only good until the end of the year...
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Priceless
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Re: Directv question
Call the 800# and order DTV and give that account number as a referral. You get a $10 credit on your bill for the first 10 months. As the referrer, I also get 10 $10 credits. But you have to have the number when you order. Supposedly, the program ends at the end of the year, but I suspect they'll renew it.
Call the 800# and order DTV and give that account number as a referral. You get a $10 credit on your bill for the first 10 months. As the referrer, I also get 10 $10 credits. But you have to have the number when you order. Supposedly, the program ends at the end of the year, but I suspect they'll renew it.
Re: Directv question
And until Comcast and DirecTV stop being a-holes, you won't get Versus, either.
johnnypohlfan
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Re: Directv question
This is incorrect, but it might depend on who you talk to at DirecTV. When my parents had DirecTV installed over the summer it was right around the time when Versus was removed from their programming. After hockey season started, my dad called them and basically told the person that the major reason they went with DirecTV was because of the sports they offered and that included Versus. He went on and on about his passion for hockey and hunting and then brought up the fact that he thought it would be fair if they gave him the Outdoor Channel (or one of the hunting channels that's only available on the highest package, I think it was the O.C.) as a replacement for Versus. The next day, they had it.
Now, I should tell you that my dad is a salesman and has been for 30 years, so that might have helped a bit, but it can't hurt to try a tactic like that.
This is incorrect, but it might depend on who you talk to at DirecTV. When my parents had DirecTV installed over the summer it was right around the time when Versus was removed from their programming. After hockey season started, my dad called them and basically told the person that the major reason they went with DirecTV was because of the sports they offered and that included Versus. He went on and on about his passion for hockey and hunting and then brought up the fact that he thought it would be fair if they gave him the Outdoor Channel (or one of the hunting channels that's only available on the highest package, I think it was the O.C.) as a replacement for Versus. The next day, they had it.
Now, I should tell you that my dad is a salesman and has been for 30 years, so that might have helped a bit, but it can't hurt to try a tactic like that.
Dirty
#BanBiddy
Re: Directv question
Comcast owns Versus and they are trying to squeeze every last cent out of DirecTV. DirecTV has decided to tell Comcast to screw off and therefore they do not offer Versus.
Comcast owns Versus and they are trying to squeeze every last cent out of DirecTV. DirecTV has decided to tell Comcast to screw off and therefore they do not offer Versus.
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Priceless
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Re: Directv question
Yeah, pretty much if you call and haggle the right person you can get them to give you things...Dish gave me Showtime free for three months so I could watch Weeds with the idea that I would buy it later. The DTV supervisor for this area gave me his personal cell so if I had any technical issues I could call him directly.
If you call, be nice to the frontline people...they have the ability (and the authority) to give you really cool things.
This is incorrect, but it might depend on who you talk to at DirecTV. When my parents had DirecTV installed over the summer it was right around the time when Versus was removed from their programming. After hockey season started, my dad called them and basically told the person that the major reason they went with DirecTV was because of the sports they offered and that included Versus. He went on and on about his passion for hockey and hunting and then brought up the fact that he thought it would be fair if they gave him the Outdoor Channel (or one of the hunting channels that's only available on the highest package, I think it was the O.C.) as a replacement for Versus. The next day, they had it.
Now, I should tell you that my dad is a salesman and has been for 30 years, so that might have helped a bit, but it can't hurt to try a tactic like that.
Yeah, pretty much if you call and haggle the right person you can get them to give you things...Dish gave me Showtime free for three months so I could watch Weeds with the idea that I would buy it later. The DTV supervisor for this area gave me his personal cell so if I had any technical issues I could call him directly.
If you call, be nice to the frontline people...they have the ability (and the authority) to give you really cool things.
Re: Directv question
Time Warner Cable subscribers a heads up -- you may be losing Fox. How much Fox is not said... Broadcast, sports, FoxNews, movies?
Time Warner Cable subscribers a heads up -- you may be losing Fox. How much Fox is not said... Broadcast, sports, FoxNews, movies?
JF_Gophers
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Re: Directv question
If you have to haggle or complain to get the channel then its not really an option. You can't call or go online and add a single Fox Sport Net channel.
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Priceless
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Re: Directv question
If it's Fixed News that's not much of a loss.
If it's Fox Movie Channel or FCS that's huge.
If it's Fox, that's catastrophic.
If it's Fixed News that's not much of a loss.
If it's Fox Movie Channel or FCS that's huge.
If it's Fox, that's catastrophic.
mookie1995
there's a good buck in that racket.
Re: Directv question
driving through the nyc area this week and last, that was all i heard on the radio. every other commercial is, "call time warner to save your fox".
If it's Fixed News that's not much of a loss.
If it's Fox Movie Channel or FCS that's huge.
If it's Fox, that's catastrophic.
driving through the nyc area this week and last, that was all i heard on the radio. every other commercial is, "call time warner to save your fox".