A civil defense against monopolizing local sports broadcasts
While I’ve already dedicated one post this week to Josh Breitbart’s Civil Defense, I did forget to mention one cause Josh champions with which I wholeheartedly agree.
Free the Flyers is an effort to wrest local sports broadcasts of three of Philly’s four major sports teams from the smothering grasp of Comcast. Due to glitches in telecom regulation and the purposely antiquated means by which Comcast transmits this programming, most people who aren’t Comcast subscribers can’t view such programming in their own homes at any cost.
And it’s a glitch that Comcast uses to continue to justify otherwise unwarranted price hikes. If you make the natural market decision to move to the almost invariably better priced satellite-based competition, you can say bye-bye to your beloved Flyers, Phillies and Sixers for most of the season.
But if you’re a Philly area sports fan, you already know the basic gist of this routine. If you’d like to send a message to Sen. Specter regarding an appropriate amendment to the Alaskan tech wizard’s proposed law, click here to visit Free the Flyers now.
Note: You don’t have to be a Philadelphia area resident to voice concern over the “Comcast loophole” – if the practice disturbs you, feel free to voice your concerns to your own Senators, whoever they may be.
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