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Direct TV vs Time Warner Cable

By Article Guy On October 6, 2009 Under Movies

One of the great things about modern cable and satellite TV is all of the sports programming now available to subscribers across the country. Specialized sports packages like ESPN Gameplan give the customer access to nearly 20 college football games every weekend. Even the NCAA Men’s tournament has expanded coverage with the Mega March Madness on Direct TV.

Content is king today, and as the saying goes the networks of course want to deliver as much sports content as possible to the customer so they can make more money on advertising. Quite a few new all-sports networks have popped up in the past few years. Included among these are Altitude Sports, which carries Denver Nuggets and the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche matches, as well as the Big 10 network and the mtn, the broadcast home of the Mountain West conference.

Certainly these networks are nice for fans in lots of areas, disagreements between the providers of content and cable networks that deliver the content have resulted in difficulties to the customer. Consider what happened last year, the Big Ten Network began broadcasting in 2007, but the network was unable to strike a deal with big cable provider Time Warner. Subscribers of Time Warner in the midwest were not able to see some of the home town teams play because of the carraige dispute. Fortunately, the companies involved came to an agreement before the 2008 season, so subscribers could stay with Time Warner instead of having to switch over to one of the satellite TV providers such as DISH Network or Direct TV. An important thing to do when considering providers is to consider all factors, comparing Direct TV or Time Warner.

Out of market sports programming are another consideration for the customer. The Direct TV Sunday Ticket package is exclusive to the satellite TV provider so if you want this football fest, you have to switch. Many subscribers to large cable companies like Comcast are upset, not understanding why a package like NFL Sunday Ticket isn’t available to them. Other sports packages though are more fan friendly, such as the National Hockey League Center Ice and the NBA League Pass, which are available on almost every cable TV and satellite company. Direct TV seems to have all of the premium sports packages like the Sunday Ticket.

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