The lingering dispute between NFL Network and Comcast Xfinity won\u2019t hit full boil until Week 1, when Xfinity customers won\u2019t have access to NFL RedZone. Still, with training camps opening in the coming days, Xfinity customers who want to watch NFLN coverage of training-camp practices won\u2019t be able to do so, barring a resolution.<\/p>\n
In every carriage dispute, each side blames the other. ESPN, which now runs NFL Network, wants too much, in the opinion of Comcast. Comcast, in the opinion of ESPN, doesn\u2019t want to pay enough.<\/p>\n
The problem is that the consumer gets caught in the middle of the back-and-forth until a deal gets done.<\/p>\n
And while PFT has a licensing deal with NBC, which is owned by Comcast, the reality is that no one will miss NFL Network until they miss RedZone. There\u2019s not much original content on NFL Network. It\u2019s highlights, game rebroadcasts, and a morning and evening studio show.<\/p>\n
Training camp coverage, based on the online listings<\/a>, doesn\u2019t commence on NFL Network until Saturday, August 1. And even if NFLN isn\u2019t back on Comcast by then, customers interesting in training camp coverage will just watch ESPN.<\/p>\n As a result, the situation won\u2019t become a significant problem until Sunday, September 13, when the first full Sunday of the football season arrives. That\u2019s when Xfinity customers who want to watch RedZone will be SOL \u2014 and when they\u2019ll begin to complain loudly enough to possibly break an impasse that dates back to May 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lingering dispute between NFL Network and Comcast Xfinity won\u2019t hit full boil until Week 1, when Xfinity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-771232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}