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Attention: VivaElBirdos members in Mediacom service areas.

I'm a operations director in Des Moines for the local Mediacom system, but I can set up anyone that is looking for service in any Mediacom market.

If you are looking to pick up cable service for Cardinal baseball this season, give me shout in this FanPost with your address, town, and a phone number I can reach you at.  I can set you up with the best offers available to new subscribers and best upgrades that we currently have for existing subs.  

Mediacom carries Fox Sports Midwest in High Definition in nearly every Midwest system, and about 100-120 games were in HD last year.  We do not offer the Extra Innings package (unfortunately).  I can also get you set up with our high speed internet at an affordable cost for at least the next year, so you can subscribe to the mlb.tv package if you want.

If anyone is interested, please let me know.

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Des Moines...

the greatest city in the world.

by IA Card on Mar 2, 2009 8:35 PM EST reply actions  

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and....BEN SHEETS!!! **

**not that BEN SHEETS might be involved in this comment, just BEN SHEETS!!!
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by mattyfrommo on Mar 3, 2009 6:15 PM EST up reply actions  

Can you get us

MLB network, too? Pretty please.

Those Pilgrims ain't lookin' so proud now...

by giveml on Mar 2, 2009 10:15 PM EST reply actions  

They are working

on adding this channel to the sports package that we offer. So far they’ve had very little luck with it. MLB Network wants to be on the Expanded tier of service, which means a boatload of cash for them and higher prices for our customers. It’s a bone of contention with every major sports league network, which is why we don’t have NBA TV or the NFL Network either.

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Mar 3, 2009 8:13 AM EST up reply actions  

Cedar Rapids

Are you saying I can upgrade to get FSN MW in this market? If so that is the cooest thing ever!

by 22GoCards on Mar 2, 2009 10:28 PM EST reply actions  

Currently

Do you have Fox Sports Chicago? If so, then I can’t help you. That choice is made by the RVP in your region on which Fox regional network to carry. We dumped FSN-CH when they lost the broadcast rights to the Small Bears, because they literally offered us nothing more than that on their channel and we still get 100 games a year on WGN. Your region contains a lot of Illinois communities who might be interested in White Sox baseball and C-USA football and basketball.

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Mar 3, 2009 8:16 AM EST up reply actions  

Question

A fellow DSM resident with a question. My mom becomes agitated when Mediacom does not carry certain Cardinal games even though the TV Guide channel shows FSN MW as having the game on. Mediacom told her that they do not carry every game that FSN MW carries. She may actually get a dish because of this. Will Mediacom be carrying every Cardinal game that FSN MW carries this season?

"I'm gonna throw the nastiest curveball I have ever thrown...if he hits it, I'll tip my cap, but if not we're going to the Series."

--Adam Wainwright on the final pitch of the 2006 NLCS

by bgh on Mar 4, 2009 10:57 AM EST reply actions  

It depends...

The contract that we have with them allows us to carry 140 games (I think — not sure on the exact number). To get the remainder (around 22-30 games last year), we have to pay for a separate package — that package costs the same per sub as the first 140 game package that we currently receive. So we either double the cost to all subscribers OR we go without 22 games. The reason for this, I assume, is that most of these games are broadcast by other networks, so FSN MW has to pay a premium to get that content and they pass that on to us, which then gets passed on to you.

You have to remember that since it’s on the basic tier of service that every customer who has cable has to pay these rates, not just those who watch that particular channel. For instance, we pay $5.50 per sub for the ESPN package of channels. They basically throw classic in for free. So essentially $5.50 of your monthly bill goes directly to ESPN. Since we have 78 channels on our expanded/basic service package, you can see how high a percentage we pay for sports content. When Turner renewed their NBA rights and got baseball and college football on TBS, their demand for $$$ per sub more than doubled. Who do you think people are going to be pissed at if their local cable operator doesn’t have TNT, TBS, and ESPN? It certainly isn’t the content providers, but that’s where a large chunk of our money from the TV business goes.

We’ve demanded that FSN-MW HD actually put content up on their channel when games aren’t on and then we’d look at adding the rest of the Cardinal games and some other content like Big 12 Women’s basketball, college baseball, etc.

I’m not sure what to tell you. I’ve sent an email asking about our stance on this topic, but I haven’t received any word yet as to what exactly our plan is for the coming season. Keep in mind, we can pick up this package at any time, we picked up the Big Ten network the Thursday before the football season opened last year, so these things can move pretty quickly. If it’s really important to her to have every game, she should contact the a dish provider and ask for just the Fox Sports package and nothing else. She has the legal right to do this via “buy-through”, but I’d be interested to see what they’d charge her per month and what the install fee might be. She may just be better off switching providers at this time, although you’re going to be dealing with a lot more blackout bullshit with the dish companies than you will with us, because of the way they set up their “markets”, so she may have an even bigger headache with them, and that’s not including all the times she’ll lose games due to shitty weather.

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Mar 4, 2009 12:03 PM EST up reply actions  

I don't have a problem watching the Cardinals

I live in Springfield, MO, and we pretty much get every Cardinals game on FSN or otherwise.

However, I currently have the VIP package on a contract for the next year for a bit less than $100 per month. Is that about as good as you can get, or are there ways to get that any cheaper?

by saladdays on Mar 4, 2009 12:24 PM EST reply actions  

That's as good as you're going to get.

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Mar 4, 2009 1:48 PM EST up reply actions  

OK

What I thought, but doesn’t hurt to ask!

by saladdays on Mar 4, 2009 2:26 PM EST up reply actions  

My roommates and I

are looking to get cable up in here, we live in Springfield. Over the air antenna is just horrendous. Is there an email I can reach you at with my number rather than posting my number on here?

by mynameistyler on Mar 5, 2009 5:14 PM EST reply actions  

it's on my profile...

fourstick@gmail.com

"I just wish that the late Harry Caray were still around so I could hear him mispronounce 'Kosuke Fukudome' every fukun' night" -- Dennis Miller

by fourstick on Mar 5, 2009 5:28 PM EST up reply actions  

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