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jdfuss

  • Location: naperville, Illinois

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  1. You mention three criteria for which channels WOW carries but you didn’t mention an important one: Your competition. I am a big baseball fan. I suffered last year because WOW doesn’t carry the MLB Network. But your competition does and they are after my business with lower rates and all the stations I want.

    I followed the WOW process and made the channel request for MLBN, from the webpage and by phone, half a dozen times as the year went on. Not once did I get a reply. Now baseball season is coming up, and I take it my only choice is to switch providers. From this blog entry, you seem to understand that and accept that will happen, i.e., you try to satisfy the majority of customers and apparently WOW doesn’t think baseball fans are in the majority. I understand this; I don’t agree with it, but I can accept it.

    What will make me mad, as I really love WOW, is to find out days after I switch providers that WOW finally realized they need to carry this network, because when that happens, I am not coming back.

    I have two suggestions: I recommend you add “competition” to the criteria WOW considers relevant on this topic, as somehow your competitor has this channel and at a lower rate than WOW. My second point is WOW isn’t providing customers who make channel requests any feedback (at least I got none), so we have to assume that when changes aren’t made that the channel isn’t coming and we better look elsewhere. Which is what I am doing now.

    In How Programming Decisions Are Made posted March 15, 2010 at 11:54 am