Direct TV vs Time Warner Cable

May 14, 2009 | By admin |

One of the best things about modern cable and satellite television is the explosion of sports programming now available to customers across the country. While 15 years ago you might find a couple of college football games on Saturday and a game or two on Sunday, today you can literally pick from two dozen or more games every weekend. Even the NCAA Men’s tournament has additional coverage with the Mega March Madness package on Direct TV.

The motto today is “Content is King” and as the saying goes the networks want to deliver as much content as possible to the sports fan so they can sell more advertising. Quite a few new all-sports channels have popped up over the past couple of years. Included among these are Altitude Sports, which carries Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche matches, as well as the Big Ten Network and the mtn, the network of the Mountain West conference.

Certainly these new channels are nice for fans in lots of areas, disagreements between the providers of sports programming and cable networks that deliver the content have resulted in trouble at times to the customer. For example, the Big Ten Network started airing 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 local teams play because of the carraige dispute. Fortunately, the parties came to terms before the fall football season, so customers could remain with with Time Warner rather than having to switch to one of the satellite television companies like DISH Network or DirecTV. An important thing to do when considering providers is to consider all factors, comparing TWC vs Direct TV.

Specialized sports programming are another thing sports fans should consider. Many Comcast customers have switched to DirecTV because the NFL Sunday ticket is exlusively on satellite. This has upset some pay television subscribers, who do not understand why a package Sunday Ticket isn’t available to every provider, especially a bicompany like Time Warner. Alternative sports bundles though are more friendly to subscribers, such as the NHL Center Ice and the NBA League Pass, which are available on almost every cable TV and satellite provider. Direct TV seems to have all of the sports programming.