As I suspected, the NC$$ regionals being on Pay Per View
leaves those of us without mini-dishes (or with Primestar) totally out
of the loop.  I just called a local sports bar (er, "private club")
and they said that to pick up a PPV event they have to pay thru the
nose as a commercial subscriber, which is financially wise for NFL and
College Football, but not for College Hockey.  Plus, does anyone know
if commercial DirecTV subscribers can even get the games?  The sports
bar guy couldn't seem to find it.  He said they could try to tune the
games in on M$C, but my impression is that they'll be blacked out
outside of their usual territory.  Or does that not apply to the
C-Band signal?
 
        It also doesn't help that the squeakball Final Four(TM) is on
Saturday, and our local school is a semifinalist.  Despite the fact
that anyone in town could pick up the game over the air without even
having cable, the place with all the satellite dishes plans to turn
every TV in the joint to the Utes-Tarheels game.  Tell me again how
capitalism means more choices for the consumer?
 
                                         John Whelan, Cornell '91
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