PLEASE send an email to Universalsports@Directv.com and ask DirectTV to add Universal Sports to the lineup before the Winter Olympics start so we can get at least SOME KIND OF good coverage. UNIVERSAL carries soem awesome sports that other channels just will not cover, such as cycling, and that VERSUS did cover before DirecTV got rid of it.
PLEASE PLEASE…I’d get to watch Ski Jumping and Luge on TV and not just those extreme sports that the other channels soemtimes cover, but the traditional winter sports. I don’t care for extreme winter sports, I am a traditionalist. Plus, I am tired of getting HIGHLIGHTS and stuff cut together, I want to see the whole event!
I sent an email for you Suzanne.
Per the previous post, Comcast owns 51% of Universal and 100% of VERSUS. Comcast is really trying to regain market share in regions where they offer service and have lost customers to the dishes.
“Robert Mercer, director of public relations for DirecTV, said: “Versus’ overall ratings are poor and have not increased nearly enough to justify what we’re paying them, let alone the significant increase they’re asking for. He added “It is a significant rate hike and the deal is discriminatory because Versus is not offering the same package options as other distributors.” Versus responded in a statement released August 20 that said it has added “many marquee properties” and has become “the fastest-growing sports cable network in the country.”[107....snip
Versus launched a national newspaper ad on September 4 saying "Worthless: That's what DirecTV thinks of the sports you love". It then urges DirecTV customers to switch providers.[111]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast
What Comcast does with that crap though is alienate customers who CAN NOT get Comcast.
As for switching providers, my only other options is Dish, which is much more unreliable. Comcast needs to get hooked up throughout Sussex – so ALL people can easily see school delays, local weather, etc. I don’t have time to go online and search around on our crappy newspaper websites or such – but if we had Comcast where I live, I could run the TV in the morning while getting ready. I’d also get local news, local weather – it would be a tremendous improvement.
Kent County can get the locals via Satellite, why can’t Sussex? It’s all bullshit.