NFL TV Network. Will the fans be the losers

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The NFL is making attempts to prepare to tweak its own tv network and will withhold prime games from the networks.

USA TODAY

Now, the NFL plans to keep about 70% of U.S. households from being able to see two of its best-looking games left this year. And, just like you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of brutal NFL hits but cheer them anyway, you have to admire the league's latest stiff-arm.

McCARTHY: Fan may lose out in cable tug of war

The NFL, like all leagues, wants its own TV channel to promote itself and maybe make some money off odds and ends at its disposal. After cable operators didn't exactly swoon over the NFL Network's year-round replays and yukfests ? and paying the NFL substantial fees to do so ? the NFL last season gave its channel eight regular-season games.
The idea: Make cable operators think they need the channel or customers will flee to satellite TV, which carries the NFL Network.

 

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The NFL is making attempts to prepare to start its own tv network and will withhold prime games from the networks.

To start it's own network??

The NFL Network has been available since 2003.

USA TODAY

Now, the NFL plans to keep about 70% of U.S. households from being able to see two of its best-looking games left this year. And, just like you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of brutal NFL hits but cheer them anyway, you have to admire the league's latest stiff-arm.

McCARTHY: Fan may lose out in cable tug of war

The NFL, like all leagues, wants its own TV channel to promote itself and maybe make some money off odds and ends at its disposal. After cable operators didn't exactly swoon over the NFL Network's year-round replays and yukfests ? and paying the NFL substantial fees to do so ? the NFL last season gave its channel eight regular-season games.
The idea: Make cable operators think they need the channel or customers will flee to satellite TV, which carries the NFL Network.

The article forgets one thing, which is directly tied to the treatment they now accord the BTN.
At one point the NFL Network had better positioning on several major cable offerers - positioning it no longer enjoys. From Wikipedia - NFL Network article.

NFL Network is as of November 2007 embroiled in a dispute with several cable companies. Perhaps the most public beef is over its removal on some systems owned by Time Warner Cable, the second-largest system in the United States, which occurred in September 2006.
NFL Network has insisted that it be placed on basic service and wish to charge the cable companies a monthly rate of $0.61 per subscriber during the NFL season, while Time Warner wishes to place it on a sports tier.[6] NFL Network's position is that Time Warner's demands are unreasonable and many other providers place NFL Network on a basic tier without subscriber backlashes[7].

Sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it?