Comcast Attempts To Piss Off Baltimore Residents
Jul 28th 2007ericjhoroMLB & Media
Guess what, Baltimore residents? Comcast has found another way to piss you off besides raising rates without notice and providing high speed internet that drops more than Terrell Owens. This weekend they’re not going to let some of you watch Cal Ripken Jr’s Hall of Fame induction.
The disregard for Ripken fans stems from Comcast’s decision earlier this month to move ESPN Classic from basic cable to digital cable in Baltimore and it’s surrounding areas. The move means that the 33% of Baltimore Comcast customers without digital cable can no longer see the channel. During any other month in any other year it probably wouldn’t be a big deal, but on Sunday ESPN Classic has the exclusive rights to the Hall of Fame induction festivities.
Comcast says they made the switch to increase high-definition and on-demand programming, which is a valid reason, but perhaps they should have waited three weeks until after they aired the only program in the history of ESPN Classic that Baltimore residents are dying to see. Also, let’s not forget the real victims here—the poor Comcast employees who are going to have to answer throngs of angry phone calls from elderly and semi-senile Baltimore residents.
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