Cox says no to new NFL channel, but offers alternatives
September 12th, 2009, 8:45 am · 33 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
Football season officially starts Sunday and the NFL has created a new channel allowing TV providers to offer more games and coverage to viewers.
But neither cable company in Orange County has signed on to offer the NFL RedZone. Other TV providers — including AT&T U-verse, Verizon FIOS and Dish Network — are offering the channel.
For Cox Communications, the cable company has “no plans to carry the NFL RedZone channel,” said Lana Ong, a spokeswoman for the Rancho Santa Margarita company.
“However,” she added, “Cox knows how important football coverage is for our customers so this year, Cox will offer up to 375 football games including over 170 NFL games and more than 350 football games in HD at no additional cost for Cox customers.”
Cox offers digital cable customers access to the NFL Network, NFL Network HD and NFL On Demand including NFL Replay which offers extended highlights from every single NFL game played that week.
No response yet from Time Warner Cable, which isn’t offering RedZone or the NFL Network. But according to several reports, it looks like football fans won’t get the same coverage on Time Warner.
Earlier coverage on sports TV:
OCRegister.com football page
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COX is horrible. nfl has power.
It’s surprising that Cox doesn’t understand the people will pay extra for live NFL games. Direct TV has made an entire business on this. Offer it as a tier, market it as live out of market games now available on Cable (another spin but much better than the spin provided by the lame Cox rep in the article) and it will make money by next season.
Time Warner stinks, Cox is nearly as bad. Verizon Fios (if you live in one of the tiny areas lucky enough to be offered) is good, but no customer service outside of “business hours”.
so basically they all blow.
After 11 weeks of nt being able to watch my team play I must admit that direct tv is look’n really good! That or cox needs to change their mind bout the nfl red zone. Looks like I’m callen direct tv 2morrow!!