DIRECTV: NHL Center Ice vs. Regional Sports Package
Mitchell E. Cope
If I have the Regional Sports Package on DIRECTV (which carries a lot of NHL hockey at $12/month*8months = $96
), what value added does NHL Center Ice ($109) provide in terms of coverage? Does the NHL produce their own
shows that's not being covered by the Regional Sports channels? I bet not. Fill me in if I need to have both.
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"Mitchell E. Cope" <co...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>If I have the Regional Sports Package on DIRECTV
>(which carries a lot of NHL hockey at $12/month*8months = $96
>), what value added does NHL Center Ice ($109) provide in
>terms of coverage? Does the NHL produce their own
>shows that's not being covered by the Regional Sports channels?
>I bet not. Fill me in if I need to have both.
FYI:
The "Regional Sports Package" on DirecTV does NOT get you ANY
NHL games. That package gets you a ton of talk shows ans some college
sports.
The "Total Choice" package gets you your own regional sports network
(in your case, Prime Sports Rocky Mountain since you are in Kansas)
and gets you in-market games (Colorado Avalanche games on PS Rocky Mtn.)
The "NHL Center Ice" package gets you OUT-OF-MARKET games (i.e. games
NOT involving your "home team", the Colorado Avalanche).
No amount of money will get you the games televised locally in Denver
over-the-air because the Avalanche controls local broadcast rights in your
area, even though you are 700 miles away from Denver.
(Interesting note, if you move across the state line to Missouri, you will
instead be in St. Louis Blues territory. The Blues control local
broadcast rights on the Missouri side.)
Welcome to the bizzare, Byzantine world of regional sports.
Unknown
I just ordered a dish here in S.Carolina, so I can see the
Pittsburgh Penguins. I have the same question you have. With KBL
on Regional Pkg(is this correct?), I get 40+ games. With 20
games a week on NHL Pkg, how many times will I get Penguins,
when they are not on KBL? Finally, which Sportschannels are
included and do they announce their nhl game schedules in advance?
I went to Directv site, which is limited in this info.
js
=========="Mitchell E. Cope", 9/9/96==========
If I have the Regional Sports Package on DIRECTV (which carries
a lot of NHL hockey at $12/month*8months = $96
), what value added does NHL Center Ice ($109) provide in terms
of coverage? Does the NHL produce their own
shows that's not being covered by the Regional Sports channels?
I bet not. Fill me in if I need to have both.
hck...@flash.net
Mitchell E. Cope wrote:
>
> If I have the Regional Sports Package on DIRECTV (which carries a lot of NHL hockey at $12/month*8months = $96
> ), what value added does NHL Center Ice ($109) provide in terms of coverage? Does the NHL produce their own
> shows that's not being covered by the Regional Sports channels? I bet not. Fill me in if I need to have both.
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> | Mitchell E. Cope | |
> | 12903 Connell | Forget it Jake... |
> | Overland Park, KS 66213-3233 | it's Chinatown. |
> | (913) 685-2624 (voice) | |
> | (913) 685-2366 (fax) | |
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You will note that the agreement on the regional sports package indicates
that blackouts will occur on some programming. If you do not purchase the
hockey package you will find the hockey broadcasts on the regionals
blacked out.
In other words...if you don't purchase Center Ice, you won't get hockey
on the regionals.
Andrew Kovacs
In a previous article, co...@ix.netcom.com (Mitchell E. Cope) says:
>If I have the Regional Sports Package on DIRECTV (which carries a lot of NHL hockey at $12/month*8months = $96
>), what value added does NHL Center Ice ($109) provide in terms of coverage? Does the NHL produce their own
>shows that's not being covered by the Regional Sports channels? I bet not. Fill me in if I need to have both.
>--
I don't think you need to have the regional sports package to get NHL
Center Ice. You do, however, need to buy the NHL package to see any
out-of-market NHL games. Even though the regional sports networks (MSG,
SportsChannel, Prime) produce the telecasts, the networks and the NHL hold
a joint copyright, and the regional networks are allowed to show games into
their local markets only. For example, if you live in the Pittsburgh area
and Prime/KBL is your local sports network, you would be able to see all
the Penguins games KBL carries, but you'd be locked out from channels
showing other NHL games unless you bought the Center Ice package.
Can anyone explain to me what, if anything, the saying "How much fried
chicken can you eat?" has to do with the game of hockey?
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Unknown
The "Regional Sports Package" on DirecTV does NOT get you ANY
NHL games. That package gets you a ton of talk shows ans some college
sports.
The "Total Choice" package gets you your own regional sports network
(in your case, Prime Sports Rocky Mountain since you are in Kansas)
and gets you in-market games (Colorado Avalanche games on PS Rocky Mtn.)
>>>>Help, I'm in S.Carolina, with DSS installed in a couple
weeks. Will I get NHL on all 18 Sportschannels?? Pens from KBL,
Rangers/Islanders on MSG, etc. So do I get a few games every
night, since hockey will be somewhere every night on these
channels, excluding the national games on Fox and ESPN/2?
>>>>What will NHL Ice get me that I won't get from the Sportschannels?
>>>>I really want all Pens games, so what do I have to buy to
get all 80? KBL probably carries 40+. Do I need multiple
schedules so if KBL doesn't carry Pens vs. Sabres, I pick it up
on the Sabres Sportschannel? Being new to DSS, is it possible to
get all schedules for televised games ahead of time, to plan
winter viewing?
The "NHL Center Ice" package gets you OUT-OF-MARKET games (i.e. games
NOT involving your "home team", the Colorado Avalanche).
>>>>Will announce NHL Center Ice schedule in advance?
>>>>Why do I need Center Ice if I get "all games" on the Sportschannels?
Thanks in advance.
js
John J Klos
Mitchell E. Cope wrote:
>
> If I have the Regional Sports Package on DIRECTV (which carries a lot of NHL hockey at $12/month*8months = $96
> ), what value added does NHL Center Ice ($109) provide in terms of coverage? Does the NHL produce their own
> shows that's not being covered by the Regional Sports channels? I bet not. Fill me in if I need to have both.
> --
If I'm not mistaken, unless you have the Center Ice Package, the
Regional sports channels, (even though you pay extra/month for them),
have the right to blackout the games on DirectTV. It was the same way
for baseball so I don't see them changing policies for different sports.
John Klos
Patchogue, NY