No HD superbowl in San Fran from Comcast

[kevinw]

http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/story/8147134p-9078853c.html

oops my bad..Kevinw

[dmlove]

I'm sorry for those in SACRAMENTO, but the article is about SACRAMENTO, not San Francisco. This is a completely different market. I already have CBS HD in the SAN FRANCISCO Bay Area (90 miles west of SACRAMENTO).


UPDATE: I just called Comcast to check and indeed the Superbowl will be shown in HD, at least in Burlingame, CA, channel 186.

[Vitriol]

Yeah, it's just the Sacramento market (which I live in), not the Bay Area. I learned about as much as the article suggests when I first found out that the Comcast/CBS deal happened. Each side blames the other, but what it really boils down to is money. The KOVR parent company wants money for its HD Feed, even though the other local affiliates don't charge for it, and Comcast will not budge either.

However, from what I've learned, Comcast has AT LEAST been trying to strike a deal, while the KOVR parent has little interest in having its market's biggest cable carrier show their HD programming.

Oh well, it's a good thing I'm going to a Super Bowl party in the bay area where a friend already has CBS HD.

[DaGodfather]

?????

[Vitriol]

Yes, you can pretty much get all local HD channels OTA with the right antenna in most places in the Sac/Stk/Tracy market. I have a neighbor that uses DirecTV and OTA-HD, and we're an average of 40 miles (airline) from the stations. For me, however, it's not worth the cost of the suitable antenna or the extra set-top box as I don't have an integrated set. I'll just go watch the Super Bowl elsewhere.