BeIn Sports To Be Added Monday. Redbox Instant Launches. NFL Ticket To Be Up For Grabs.

Question

BeIn sports will be added to the fios guide on monday where customers who have the ultimate hd package will have it there available for them to watch as part of the package. For people who have the spanish package they will be receiving the second BeIn sports channel in spanish. There is a third BeIn sports channel in french but no american tv provider has it and it is only available in europe. If you do not have the ultimate hd package you have to get the sports package to get BeIn sports. The channels are not like the gol tv channels which carry the same exact games where the difference is that one channel calls the game in english and the other calls the game in spanish. The BeIn sports channels are different in the games they broadcast with totally different lineups and if you want an idea of what they have to offer then check out their website that has the listings for soccer games, tennis matches, rugby matches, boxing, golf, volleyball, basketball and motorcycle races where BeIn is currently negotiating the additions of more sports programming to be added to their channels. If you want to confirm this call verizon's billing department as they are now telling everyone that BeIn is set to be added on monday so that they can get people to upgrade to the hd lineup or at least add the sports package. Now it will be interesting to see if verizon is going to go the route of other providers where they too might end up dropping gol tv like comcast and directv did. Redbox instant just launched too. It is $6 to stream movies onlines, $8 to stream and you will also get 4 dvd codes to rent at a kiosk or $9 if you want to stream online and rent 4 blue ray dvds with 4 codes. Another interesting thing that has happened is that direct tv has announced they will not be renewing their contract for the the nfl ticket so it will be up for grabs for whoever wants it. Now everyone is saying that comcast is going to do everything they can to add it with time warner also a possibility but if verizon wants to add a lot of customers then they better start planning right now to make their move to add the nfl ticket. I find it to be very interesting that all customers are set to get a price increase on tuesday the day after BeIn sports is added to the guide so even if those customers who may never watch the channel will never know it  they are in fact in their own way paying for the addition of BeIn sports. Now as a reminder i will say that i was the first one to mention that verizon would be adding BeIn sports to their lineup where verizon did something that they would normally not do which is to actually admit that what i said was true a month after i had revealed that info on here. It will be interesting to see if anyone even remembers that or would i have to bring back that thread from august to prove a point that my info was correct? Pac 12 network HD is also on the way too.   

Answer 1

celticpride wrote:
I received an email from verizon today saying that in april they will be dropping G4 and adding esquire  tv on channel 191? not sure of channel number or if the new channel will be in HD. BTW will verizon have all the nba league pass channels in HD and dual feeds like directv next year?
Just so we're clear, Verizon isn't dropping G4 - G4 is going away. It is no more. It's being converted into the Esquire Channel. It's not a matter of Verizon dropping one for the other. So before people start a million threads whining about "Why is Verizon dropping G4?!" I hope they know the facts.