🏈 Report/Rumor: Direct TV sends emails to customers claming they won't carry SEC Network...

[kudzu]

I have my doubts—though could easily be wrong—that U-Verse has published their pricing structure for the SECN as of now. I'm more inclined to believe the rep you were talking with thinks it'll be on the same tier that's required for channels like NFL Network, MLB, and all your Spanish sports broadcasting channels.

Assuming what you were told is correct, and also knowing the packages U-Verse sets up differs from one region to another, I do find it interesting that the B1G's network is available with one of their middle tiers but they plan on offering the SECN in their biggest tier? Makes me wonder what packages everyone here has...

The package I have is the second from the top, 300,and you're right I have the Texas Network(LHN).Don't want it either. It's packaged in. If SECN is packaged in with the same as NFL NET..etc then I'll be ok. It's lncuded in my 350.
Hard to get accurate info from most customer reps anyway. I'll be calling back once the season gets close and I'm sure they'll tell me something different.

 

[kudzu]

I just looked through the ATT site and it's a mess. Big Ten comes with U-100 & above, NFL you need U-200 & above, NFL Red Zone you need HD Premium Tier. Some channels you have to have the sports package and I apparently have U- 300 which is the second from the top. I have HD Premium, SPORTS pkg which explains why I get all the college sports and other networks. Still nothing on SECN though.

 

[planomateo]

 

[planomateo]

Think this was mentioned in a previous SECN thread. Its being suggested that this will cost about $1.30

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2014/01/13/Media/SEC-net.aspx

An in-market rate of $1.30 makes the SEC Network significantly more expensive than the Big Ten Network. BTN launched in 2007 and currently charges up to $1 in its 11-state footprint from New Jersey to Nebraska. Sub fees on average from both inside and outside the footprint average 37 cents, according to researcher SNL Kagan.

 

[jlabit]

I am going to show my ignorance here. I currently have Mediacom cable TV, but thinking about a change because I'm paying $163 monthly for my TV and cable internet. I don't have any other options for internet. Mediacom is the only option, except for very slow DSL. I just checked for availability of U-verse, and ATT's site says it is not available in my area. Exactly what is U-verse? All I know is that it is TV coverage through AT & T. Does it stream on the internet, or does it stream on a landline? Thanks for responses.

 

[planomateo]

[MENTION=19582]jlabit[/MENTION] U-Verse is AT&T's fiber optic product, they run fiber to the neighborhood, not to the house (in most cases). Believe when they retrofit, they run to the neighborhood (or node) and on new builds, they run to the house (or premise). When they run to the neighborhood, they run coaxial/RJ cable to the house. It can do TV, Internet, Phone service.

I have U-Verse for high speed network (I'm on the fastest I can get at 24M down/3M up)...if I could get faster, I would. I don't use them for TV service, I use DirecTV.

 

[alabama mike]

We have had Direct Tv for just over 4 years and I hate it! All of our news and weather comes out of W.V. Instead of Ohio where I live. The problem with cable? The provider only carries 35 channels but if I lived 100 yards in a different direction, I would have full access to cable. I have never tried Dish so I don't know what I'd have it as a provider.

 

[TerryP]

@jlabit @planomateo has said.

I don't have a land line for a phone anymore and my security system is cellular as well. However, when I first subscribed to AT&T's U-Verse plan I did use a house phone for that security system.

Everything in my house is ran through my phone lines (Internet and television.) That phone junction on the house is where my NID is located as well. I did go to the point of tearing out the old wiring and installed cat5e. (As much for location of outlets as for a preference of video being sent over RG6.) When the tech was last here he made the comment that he'd not been in many houses over his time with AT&T when their signal ran so well.

So...in laymen's terms there's one modem in the house for the Internet, yet it is linked to the DVR's.

On the TV aspect, it's coming in through the phone lines, then switching off to the coax I installed at my NID.

The 'net speeds here are available from 3 megs down all the way up to 45 megs. I'm on 18Mbps and it works perfectly for me. I don't subscribe to any premium channels (like HBO, Cinemax, etc.) but I'm a fan of A LOT of their series and watch them often—couldn't as for a better stream. (Well, I could, but don't need to do so...)

IF I was a gamer? I'd drop the extra $20 a month and jump to the 45...

 

[planomateo]

I said coax/RJ (what type of cable is phone line again)

 

[TerryP]

:loser: I said coax/RJ (what type of cable is phone line again)

:chat_biggrin_BFGL:

 

[planomateo]

Interesting read. They won't have this luxury in the SEC footprint, as other providers already have agreements in place.

 

[TerryP]

No clue if this is correct...so, we'll call it FWIW:

 

[psychojoe]

And now AT&T is trying to buy Direct TV.

 

[rick4bama]

And now AT&T is trying to buy Direct TV.

I thought this already happen?

 

[planomateo]

I thought this already happen?

Its hasn't been approved yet, last I saw, AT&T expects the deal to complete in May 2015... almost a year from now.