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Football league
The NFL Network, the television progeny of a league that knows better than all others how to mint money, is overreaching in its tough-minded campaign to prove its indispensability to fans in the cable TV universe.
The network is overselling the value of its eight-game Thursday-and-Saturday schedule, which will not begin until Thanksgiving....
... (It) is an astonishingly steep value to place on eight games - which will be simulcast on local stations in the teams' markets. ....
... In one newspaper ad, the (NFL Network) cited Time Warner and Cablevision as holdouts and claimed quite hyperbolically that without it "you'll miss the best games and the run to the playoffs." The claim borders on deception, given how many games can be seen elsewhere and that there is no way to know how important they will be. ...
... (Fred) Dressler, of Time Warner, said, "The NFL Network keeps the pressure on because it believes we will ultimately end up charging all our customers to satisfy the few who want these games."
September 19, 2006. Richard Sandomir. "NFL Network is Counting on Fans to Pay a Lot for a Little" New York Times
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