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Originally Posted by alwaysabear
I contacted Cindy Rose in January regarding ESPNA HD and was told "The channel is expensive and we are trying very hard to work with ESPN to find a way to make it available to our customer base affordably. Please bear with us while we complete these discussions...
Still no news are they still in negotiations? several other people have asked the same question over the last 9 months and get similar answers, or lack of capacity.  |
Remind me, how many other European sat/cable providers are carrying ESPNA HD? Despite the length of time its been available and the big push ESPNA are making to get viewers to ask their providers to carry the HD channel you'd be hard-pushed to find more than 5, and at least two of them are Sky-owned. Satellite providers have to do very little as the channel's uplinked to satellite by ESPN so they just pay a fee and add it to their packages. Cable providers have to get hold of the signal and provide a space for it on one of their muxes, all of which costs extra money on top of whatever ESPN want for the channel. Unless more providers start to carry the channel I think ESPN will have to re-think how much they want for it.