SB Nation Announces New Sponsor: Comcast

by Bruce Raffel on Sep 30, 2009 7:00 AM EDT

I wanted to announce that SB Nation and its NFL blogs, including Baltimore Beatdown, now has a sponsor for the season. We were approached by Comcast, who is looking to get the word out about Comcast Redzone and they knew the best way to reach hardcore NFL fans was through SB Nation blogs. We’re proud to have them as a sponsor and it shows just how much this blog has grown and the kind of community we have here.

We won’t be bombarding you with marketing messages, but we’ll remind you every once in a while about some of the great sports features available from Comcast, like Redzone. For a little cash a month, you get the Redzone Channel which shows all the redzone action on NFL Sunday as its happening.

This weekend on Sunday, Oct. 4th, they’ll provide Redzone for free on Comcast from 1-4 PM.

Plus, they got stuff like On Demand content from the NFL Network including game recaps of every game, every week; draft profiles, player profiles, etc.

So just wanted to say thanks to Comcast for sponsoring the blog and let you guys know about some of the stuff they have for NFL fans.

Check out more about this at: (http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/Programming/sports/SEPackage.html)

(More about Comcast's sponsorship and what they have to offer after the 'Jump.')

Comcast:

- Recently moved all of the major sports networks to their most popular tier of service giving it to millions more people at no additional charge, and launched ESPNU. Also offering ESPN360 to their internet customers for free.

- Also has the new NFL Redzone on its Sports Entertainment Package (about $5-7) this channel is getting a ton of buzz, and fans love it. This weekend Comcast will offer the NFL Redzone for free to all of its 17 million digital customers. The ³free-view² will be available this Sunday, October 4 from 1 PM to 4:15 PM EST.

- NFL RedZone joins Comcast¹s current offering of live sports programming, as well as NFL Network, NBA TV, NHL Network, ESPNU, MLB Network, ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, Golf Channel, Speed and Versus among others on its Digital Preferred package, and will also be available to its Digital Starter customers. Comcast¹s SEP, the usual home for NFL¹s RedZone, also includes the major professional sports networks, as well as CBS College Sports, Fox College Sports, Fox Soccer, Gol TV, the Tennis Channel and other networks.

- Comcast also has On Demand content from the NFL network whose game recaps of every game every week, draft profiles, player profiles, etc.

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Didn’t we have a thread a little while ago where everybody complained about Comcast?

…but we’ll remind you every once in a while about some of the great sports features available from Comcast, like Redzone.

Will this be via a front page story?

Water covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface. Ed Reed covers the rest.

by Ampallang on Sep 30, 2009 7:22 AM EDT reply actions

Comcast SUCKS ! …………… CAW !

by CoraCoraCorax on Sep 30, 2009 9:10 AM EDT reply actions

People complain about Comcast, but

they have the NFL Network and now the NFL Redzone, which is really, really good for NFL fans. The NFL Network (Comcast channel 246 in HD in Baltimore County) has always had great stats on game day, plus great content all week long. Now the NFL Redzone has live feeds from every game, constantly switching their feed to see the latest highlights during the 1pm and 4pm games. It is just like having the NFL Sunday Ticket, but w/o the dish. Check it out!

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Sep 30, 2009 9:30 AM EDT reply actions

If the Beatdown is shilling Comcast, I’ll cancel my FIOS as soon as I get out of work!

Water covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface. Ed Reed covers the rest.

by Ampallang on Sep 30, 2009 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

Check out the freebie this weekend at someone else's house

and then decide. I’ve heard good and not so good things about FiOS. Do you like it?

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Sep 30, 2009 12:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Actually, I had it before I moved to Philly earlier this month. True story: as soon as we switched from Comcast to FiOS, I stopped watching TV altogether. We now have Comcast again in the City of Brotherly Love at my urging.

Water covers 2/3 of the Earth's surface. Ed Reed covers the rest.

by Ampallang on Sep 30, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions

FiOS

I have had FiOS for about three years -pretty much since they started rolling out the service. I have a traditional “Triple Play” package: telephony, internet and TV. As with any new system, initially there we re a few bugs but they seem to be occurring further and further apart. Occasionally we will experience an Internet slow down, usually in the evenings, but even those seem to occur with less frequency.

The one downside is that they are starting to “creep” up their pricing. It seems like over the past six months or so, the price has been jacked about a buck or two, like very other month…

Comcast pulled the same shenanigans back in the day and was one of the reasons we switched. If FiOS keeps doing that, we may switch that.

But other than that we have been very satisfied with FiOS.

by vlad755 on Oct 1, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions

TV has barely changed in 50 years

At least DirectTV has NFL Sunday Ticket which lets you actually pull up additional information about the ongoing game information about what your watching.

Comcast has been in a position to innovate for a long time now and they have done nothing to make the experience more interactive. Even OnDemand, which should be a game-changer, is only mediocre because of the paltry selection. I can watch the last 4 episodes of CSI? Yay! Who cares.

I really can’t wait for everything to be available in HD so the providers can come up with a new way to compete, hopefully on making TV less of a joke.

NFL Network being free is nice, though.

by tvon on Sep 30, 2009 12:59 PM EDT reply actions