They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it; for it is money they have and peace they lack.
  -James Earl Jones "Field of Dreams"
and don't go mistaking paradise for that home across the road
  -Bob Dylan "Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"

Monday, October 08, 2007

NLCS in HD

First:

From: Hall, Derrick [DHall@dbacks.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:45 PM
To: paul@howmanyroads.net
Subject: RE: TBS-HD and Cox

I'll try. Thanks for t
he update. I have DirecTV and was unaware of Cox.

Derrick M. Hall
President
Arizona Diamondbacks



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Benjamin [mailto:ratinthekitchen@cox.net]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:43 PM US Mountain Standard Time
To: Hall, Derrick
Subject: TBS-HD and Cox


Derrick,

Congratulations on the latest success. This is a wonderful time to be a Diamondbacks fan.

Do you have any insight into what is keeping Cox from making the TBS-HD games available to its subscribers? They appear to have a national agreement in p
lace as many other Cox markets have added it. They should not have any sort of bandwidth constraint as they recently added and then later removed the NFL Network HD when there were preseason games in HD.

With the Dbacks in the playoffs, Cox certainly has antagonized a lot of people (and DirecTV has added it). If you have any leverage with these folks....

Keep on winning,

Paul
--
Paul Benjamin
paul@howmanyroads.net
http://ratinthekitchen.blogspot.com


Then:

From: Hall, Derrick [DHall@dbacks.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 5:35 PM
To: Paul Benjamin
Subject: RE: TBS-HD and Cox

You and I get things done Paul!!!




-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Benjamin [mailto:paul@howmanyroads.net]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 5:26 PM
To: Hall, Derrick
Subject: RE: TBS-HD and Cox

Wow, that's great, thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hall, Derrick [mailto:DHall@dbacks.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 4:33 PM
> To: paul@howmanyroads.net
> Subject: RE: TBS-HD and Cox
>
>
> They will now convert the Mojo Channel for these games. Just go to
> Channel 721. Way to go!
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Benjamin [mailto:ratinthekitchen@cox.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:43 PM
> To: Hall, Derrick
> Subject: TBS-HD and Cox
>
> Derrick,
>
> Congratulations on the latest success. This is a wonderful time to be

> a Diamondbacks fan.
>
> Do you have any insight into what is keeping Cox from making the
> TBS-HD games available to its subscribers? They appear to have a
> national agreement in place as many other Cox markets have added it.
> They should
> not have any sort of bandwidth constraint as they recently added and
> then later removed the NFL Network HD when there were preseason games
> in HD.
>
> With the Dbacks in the playoffs, Cox certainly has antagonized a lot
> of people (and DirecTV has added it). If you have any leverage with
> these folks....
>
> Keep on winning,
>
> Paul
> --
> Paul Benjamin
> paul@howmanyroads.net
> http://ratinthekitchen.blogspot.com
>




2 comments:

Neo said...

Hey Phil. Cox did turn this game on, on channel 716. Thank you for any help you gave to make this happen, it really made our night.

Paul said...

Night would have been better if they had won...

Note that the addition of TBS-HD is only temporary. They will remove it after Game 6. If there is a Game 7 it will be on Mojo (721).