Could Irish vs Georgia football be AWOL on Direct TV?
Georgia football fans learned that Georgia vs Notre Dame drew the 2019 CBS prime time slot. If you are an AT&T or Direct TV customer, you could need a ticket.
This week CBS announced the Notre Dame – Georgia football game takes the 2019 CBS marquee prime time slot on September 21 .
This week, Direct TV blacked out CBS, and that starts with B and that rhymes with T and that stands for trouble right here in Bulldog City.
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Put up or shut down
Georgia fans celebrated the closing of talking season with SEC Media days. Throughout Georgia and the Southeast, football fans are now pricing new TVs and rearranging the den furniture in anticipation of playing season, a mere five weeks away.
With Georgia football hosting Notre Dame on September 21, CBS, AT&T, and Direct TV have two months to get themselves together or risk an Antifa style uprising throughout the Southeast.
The good news is, we’ve got two months before the Dawgs and Irish tee it up between the hedges. No one expects the disagreement to last that long.
Smoke filled rooms
It’s all very complicated, with big deal mergers, multi-billion dollar corporations negotiating and people from Connecticut talking on the phone a lot. No one cares about all that. The media “partners” either get it worked out or face a consumer wrath unseen south of the Mason-Dixon line since the introduction of New Coke .
The CBS blackout affects 6.5 million viewers. To complicate the discussion, Meredith Corporation is blacked out on DISH, affecting some local CBS affiliates. Other channels are unavailable on DISH as well, including FX and National Geographic.
DISH and AT&T Direct TV seem to be singing from the same song book, and a DISH – CBS dispute could erupt as well.
Blame everyone
It’s often impossible for the average Bubba and Lulu to tell who’s the villain in such a dispute, but more than one pundit says AT&T and DISH picked these fights. Apparently the goal is to inspire Congress’s re-authorization of re-transmission regulations to favor the provider over the broadcaster, whoever is which.
Whatever.
The best practice for consumers is probably just to be mad at everyone and force everybody to get themselves together before football season.
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It seems all parties have made this issue their hill to die on. Let caution be their watch word. There’s nothing madder than a Bulldog on Saturday night with the biggest game of the year blacked out.