Out House Networks’ Captives Soon To Be Freed
September 21st, 2012
Since Joe launched this here site on the Interwebs over four years ago, he has railed constantly for what Joe firmly believes to his very core about one of the great injustices done to local sports fans when Out House Networks, and it’s evildoer overseer Time Warner Cable, held sports fans hostage, denying them the greatest TV network available, the NFL Network, while shoving unadulterated tripe down subscribers’ throats like a “news” channel preoccupied with swingsets in the Brandon city park, cats stuck in trees and yard sales, regurgitated every hour on the hour, not to mention weather updates every 10 minutes (“What’s the temperature outside? Same as it was nine minutes ago.”) along with countless insipid shopping channels, a New York news station and LOGO of all things.
Well, those who have chosen — and yes, if you still have Out House Networks, that is your choice, you chose to live in an Out House when your signed your contract/lease — to remain in a television penitentiary while free-loving men across the land like Joe enjoy the NFL Network daily, it appears your days of captivity are numbered.
Per Scott Soshnick of Bloomberg News, the NFL and Time Warner have agreed in principal to carry both the NFL Network and the Red Zone Channel.
This means Out House Networks will also have the same programming.
The National Football League reached agreement with Time Warner (TWC) Cable Inc. to carry the league-owned NFL Network and RedZone Channel, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said.
The multiyear accord may be announced later today, according to the person, who was granted anonymity because the contract hasn’t been signed. New York-based Time Warner, the second-largest U.S. cable company with about 12 million subscribers, had been the only major cable provider without the NFL Network. It isn’t known when the channels will appear on Time Warner systems, the person said.
So there you have it. No one in the Tampa Bay area will have an excuse not to watch the NFL Network.
Joe thinks it is wholly appropriate to quote General Douglas MacArthur from his speech to the residents of the Phillipines when American troops landed on Leyte Beach to liberate the country from the boot of Japanese military oppression.
“The hour of your redemption is here. Your patriots have demonstrated an unswerving and resolute devotion to the principles of freedom that challenges the best that is written on the pages of human history. I now call upon your supreme effort that the enemy may know from the temper of an aroused and outraged people within that he has a force there to contend with no less violent than is the force committed from without.”
Oh, and once the NFL Network actually appears on Out House Networks, Joe will no longer refer to that outfit as “Out House.”
Joe’s crusade on behalf of countless innocents will have been won.
September 21st, 2012 at 11:59 am
This is great news thanks joe for not giving up the fight.
September 21st, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can feel like a man now.
September 21st, 2012 at 12:32 pm
With increased viewers I really hope they change the game commentaters. Mike Maydock was horrible last night.
September 21st, 2012 at 12:33 pm
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Does not compute. There is no one better.
September 21st, 2012 at 12:45 pm
FANTASTIC!! I still may switch to DirectTV or Verizon, simply because I’m so sick of the lousy internet service we get with Brighthouse (OutHouse).
September 21st, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Joe.. not everyone has out house by choice. My stupid apartment complex has an exclusive rights contract with out house and i am not allowed to have any other cable company but out house. And no we dont get lower cable cost for it. So this os good news to me. I wasnt going to move just to get NFLN but i damn sure thought about it. But i ask joe this. Any idea when us out house customers will actually see it on our dails?
September 21st, 2012 at 12:47 pm
I wonder if this agreement is because of the increased Thursday night games now that every team has one. Smart move NFL.
September 21st, 2012 at 2:06 pm
This is good news for me, since I told Verizon to take a hike for slamming me into a yellow pages advertising contract I thought I had cancelled.
September 21st, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Evo:
Couple of things:
First, your apartment complex is in direct violation of various federal regulations, including FTC and FCC rules, specifically the Fair Trade Act. You can get DirecTV (though your complex may have limits on where you can put the dish).
Second, you did have a choice. Were you forced to sign a contract with said apartment complex? The great thing about living in America is we can choose where we want to live. Only prisoners and convicts cannot choose where they can live. Joe trusts your apartment is not part of some county jail annex.
September 21st, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Now if we get the NFL to depart with DirectTV Network and the NFL Sunday Ticket and give it to the cable networks!!
September 21st, 2012 at 4:55 pm
BH position is that they are still negotiating. They are a separate entity from T/W so this may be a bit premature.
I do hope that we will ultimately get it.
September 21st, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Joe Says:
Couple of things:
First, your apartment complex is in direct violation of various federal regulations, including FTC and FCC rules, specifically the Fair Trade Act. You can get DirecTV (though your complex may have limits on where you can put the dish).
Second, you did have a choice. Were you forced to sign a contract with said apartment complex? The great thing about living in America is we can choose where we want to live. Only prisoners and convicts cannot choose where they can live. Joe trusts your apartment is not part of some county jail annex.
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Press the brakes there, Joe. You need to reread that law. Apartments have the right to refuse to allow sats IF they can prove certain conditions.
Second, your contract about the “contract” is ignorant in this case. Get in touch with the people. Many people cannot afford to live in other places. We take the best we can get at the price we can afford. And the lower income neighborhood apartments usually will not allow sats.
Yes, I could move to another neighborhood…but those that are affordable are worse neighborhoods…and the dishes would get stolen EVEN if they were allowed.
Regardless, this is great news.