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beGONE Sports: Comcast Boots beIN Sports from Lineup in Contract Renewal Dispute

Phillip Dampier August 1, 2018 Comcast/Xfinity, Competition, Consumer News, Public Policy & Gov't 2 Comments

Comcast has dropped sports network beIN Sports off the lineup after its contract with the cable company expired July 31.

Customers who tune to the channel will find a series of rotating on-screen messages explaining the network was switched off because the renewal price was too high:

Have you heard about a disagreement between beIn Sports and Comcast?

Every month Comcast has to pay networks to bring their programming to you. That’s right, we pay the network. Not the other way around.

Now beIN sports is asking for a major increase in fees for the channel you already have, which could have a big impact on your bill.

beIN Sports won’t allow Comcast to carry its channels until this is resolved.

beIN Media Group, a spinoff of Al Jazeera Media Network, owns the network and has already filed a complaint against Comcast for violation of the deal conditions imposed by the FCC after approving the merger of Comcast and NBCUniversal. The complaint alleges Comcast is giving preferential treatment to its own sports networks, a violation of program carriage rules. That complaint remains pending.

“We are deeply disappointed that despite our best efforts over the last year to resolve the situation, millions of Comcast XFINITY subscribers have lost access to the content they love. We are happy to extend existing terms while we continue to negotiate, but unfortunately Comcast would rather continue to charge the same while taking away valuable and loved content from customers,” said Antonio Briceño, beIN Sports’ deputy managing director for the U.S. and Canada. “The truth is, we face a disheartening trend of media consolidation, where the big get bigger and innovative brands like ours that serve diverse audiences get pushed-out. This is almost always to the detriment of consumers who end up paying the price. We hope it stops now.”

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Dallas
Dallas
5 years ago

Such crap comcast rapes you every month can’t even get bein sport in hd pathetic

Spector
Spector
5 years ago

It’s nice that comcast is willing to go to bat for the customers by refusing to pay higher rates for the beIN network and passing it on to their customers…BUT they are willing to drop the beIN network and not pass on that savings…?

Well, it seems they should know how their customers feel when they raise the rates, but I guess not. They are, like usual, just thinking of them selves and trying to hide behind the customers.

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