Dallas Stars Weigh in on DISH Network/Fox Sports, FiOS to Add FSN+?

by Brad Gardner on Oct 6, 2010 10:32 AM CDT in Dallas Stars News

The DISH Network dispute with Fox Sports Southwest is dragging into the NHL's regular season (and will be affecting NBA pre-season if it hasn't already) which starts tomorrow. This means if you have DISH Network you will NOT be able to watch the Stars take on the Devils this Friday at 6:00pm CDT in the season opener.

The Stars official web site weighed in on the situation last night detailing the other options you have and all the good things about the broadcasts (all 82 in HD...you've got to love that).

Something that caught my eye was this...

FOX Sports Southwest (and FX and Nat Geo) is offered by a number of other local distributors in our area (AT&T U-verse, Charter Cable, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FIOS). Every Stars game broadcast on FOX Sports Southwest and FOX Sports Southwest-Plus will be available on each of these carriers.

Some of us (me included) had problems with the FSN+ situation last season. Verizon FiOS in particular did not carry it and the number of FSN+ games this season has risen to 12.

I contacted the Stars to make certain and they said the following: They have been told by FOX that Verizon has "purchased the equipment necessary to carry FSN+". So with Center Ice, NHL Network HD, Versus HD and FSN+, Verizon seems just as good a choice as Directv when it comes to watching hockey.

We'll have the FSN+ channel listings later when they get that all sorted out. The first FSN+ game isn't until November 12th.

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We picked up Direct TV and it will be friday morning. Just in time to see the Kovy circus on ice

One of the last Matt Niskanen supporters in Dallas....

by RealDealNeal on Oct 6, 2010 11:35 AM CDT reply actions

I am so not looking forward

To seeing Kovy.

Defending Big D

by Brad Gardner on Oct 6, 2010 11:39 AM CDT up reply actions

I guess I'll be watching it online

I tried to tell my friend and his family that Dish is terrible, but they didn’t listen. The only way they’ll pay attention is if it isn’t settled by November and we lose Fox altogether and they can’t watch Glee, House, or Football anymore.

by JCWM2 on Oct 6, 2010 11:52 AM CDT reply actions

lol glee

One of the last Matt Niskanen supporters in Dallas....

by RealDealNeal on Oct 6, 2010 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions

What's the "NBA"?

;)

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by Pat Iversen on Oct 6, 2010 11:56 AM CDT via mobile reply actions

You know...

There seriously is a very small overlap between hockey and basketball fans.

What is that all about?

Defending Big D

by Brad Gardner on Oct 6, 2010 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions

scorings a big deal in hockey. in basketball it happens every two seconds. wheres the fun in that?

GET OFF NIEUWENDYK'S NUTS

by 8thegreat on Oct 6, 2010 12:04 PM CDT up reply actions

I am not in that overlap.

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by Pat Iversen on Oct 6, 2010 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions

There's no time to be dedicated to both.

Which is exactly why Cuban doesn’t want to own the Stars.

"Dallas Cowboys youth basketball jerseys are the favorite in the sports jerseys field and outside nfl Jerseys cheap it."

by Tsudbury on Oct 6, 2010 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Well..."dedication" is one thing

But I definitely watch Mavs when they’re on and I’m free. I don’t know how anyone in Dallas can not have a giant man crush on Dirk.

Defending Big D

by Brad Gardner on Oct 6, 2010 1:31 PM CDT up reply actions

I save my crushes for the ice girls.

that’s why.

"Dallas Cowboys youth basketball jerseys are the favorite in the sports jerseys field and outside nfl Jerseys cheap it."

by Tsudbury on Oct 6, 2010 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions

I think basketball could be greatly improved with body checking.

You sneeze on someone in basketball and they blow the whistle. It’s not the lack of violence that bores me, it’s the constant stoppages in play. Basketball’s only fun to watch when they get on a roll and they almost never allowed to just play.

by Sugaa on Oct 6, 2010 1:39 PM CDT up reply actions

Because the NBA is rigged.

by Giant Space Ants on Oct 6, 2010 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions

screw dish

stoked about finally getting the plus on fios. i ditched the dish years ago. mine was like the tv nazi – “oh look a cloud, no signal for you”

by hammy35 on Oct 6, 2010 2:23 PM CDT reply actions

Yeah I'm happy about FiOS too

I talked to Stars PR today and they seemed relatively sure (say like 90%) that FSN+ would be on FiOS this year.

Defending Big D

by Brad Gardner on Oct 6, 2010 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions

this is good because i just got fios

love it soo far

by shock00 on Oct 6, 2010 9:52 PM CDT up reply actions

Please don't think FIOS's NHCI is equivalent to DirecTV

Verizon seems just as good a choice as Directv when it comes to watching hockey.

No, no, no, please don’t spread this misinformation. Fios Center Ice only shows one, or possibly two games in HD on a given night. And while it overlaps with baseball season, it’s probably more like zero.

DirecTV has its own non-shared channels and most of them have an HD and an SD version. The majority of games on DirecTV are available in HD, every night.

DirecTV is still far superior for hockey-watching if you factor in HD availability. Outside of that, it’s still better because there are no shared baseball/hockey channels.

I say this as someone who was rooked by this claim in the past. This season I’m going with NHLGCL though. Excited about that.

by Stacey Ross on Oct 6, 2010 4:26 PM CDT reply actions

As much as I love having a dish,

it sucks when it storms. GameCenter for me too.

"Dallas Cowboys youth basketball jerseys are the favorite in the sports jerseys field and outside nfl Jerseys cheap it."

by Tsudbury on Oct 6, 2010 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions

Fortunately, although I have Directv, my hockey buddies have cable, so they record any games I don't get.

Which really worked last year in both directions – I recorded the FSN+ games for them (which Charter didn’t carry last year) and they recorded the Versus games for me. This year, we all get all the games, so everyone is reasonably happy.

by TracyJean on Oct 6, 2010 6:40 PM CDT up reply actions

True

Yes, it’s true that Fios is better for stability. And in Texas, where the storms are legendary, there may be more of a premium for that. And when I was on DirTV I did have some ill-timed dish alignment problems during the playoffs a couple years ago. But I only addressed available content.

by Stacey Ross on Oct 7, 2010 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Well thanks

I didn’t know that. I would think FiOS would have more HD because of its superior bandwidth but I guess not.

Defending Big D

by Brad Gardner on Oct 6, 2010 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Fox is shady

I think dishnetwork is doing the right thing. The broadcasters want to keep jacking up their rates and dish should not set a precedent by caving in! If Dish gives in ; all the other broadcasters and channels will try and raise their rates by 50% as well. No matter who you get your tv through you should be sticking up for Dish, as we all don’t want our rates to increase by 50%. I am not so naive as to think that dish is not doing this for it’s own reasons, but if they cave It will end up hurting us all. Also, this same type of contract dispute has happened at Comcast, uverse, direct, time Warner. This is nothing different other than fox chose to do this during a time when there were a lot of major sporting events. Fox is just trying to use dish networks customers as hostages in their shady negotiating tactics. I can live without FX and Nat Geo for awhile anyway.

by Zombiecleric on Oct 7, 2010 7:26 AM CDT reply actions

The problem is that the ratings of cable channels are increasing...

…and they’re not getting paid for it as the revenue from those channels comes from cable subscription fees, not advertising. Hence all of the rate increases. I think the shame is on the cable/sattelite companies for forcing us to pay for packages that include channels that we don’t want. If we paid by the channel this wouldn’t be a problem.

by Sugaa on Oct 7, 2010 8:21 AM CDT up reply actions