NFL, victory nets struggle for cable carriage.(Victory Sports Network and the NFL Network are both launching)
Multichannel News, October, 2003 by Umstead, R. Thomas
The debate over the rising cost of sports may exact a toll on the distribution prospects for soon-to-launch networks. Minnesota-based Victory Sports Network and the National Football League's 24-hour NFL Network will launch within the next two weeks, with neither certain to gain significant distribution carriage in a climate in which operators want to reduce programming costs and move pricey sports nets onto digital tiers.
Victory Sports, owned by the Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins, will launch on Oct. 31 with a handful of deals with local MSOs, but most likely without carriage from the top Twin Cities area cable companies--Time Warner Cable, Comcast Corp. and Charter Communications Inc. The service will feature Twins games in...
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