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I know the cable system is a contraversial subject out here but I have to say something.
My family is big SF Giants fans in our household and with the omission of Channel 30-FSN it means a loss of approx. 60 games this season that we cannot watch. After speaking with Danise I found out it is only approx. $2 per month per household and she is trying to re-negotiate that price with FSN. For those of us that CANNOT AFFORD a DISH NETWORK this price is not bad when you consider quality family time watching a Giants game together.
If you feel the same please email Danise at daniseh@rma-hoa.org or our board members to voice your opinion.

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Not to mention, if you're an Oakland A's fan, comcast just signed a deal to show 140 of their games. But we won't see a one, thanks FOC for the beginning of the end.
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Mom3 I agree with you. I didn't know Danise was trying to negotiate with them but I think that is great! I have read here over the last few months that Ch 30 would cost us more than $2-3.
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It was dropped by the Board, at the GM's suggestion, for budgetary reasons due to a big rate hike.

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That Comcast channel was never a subject of the FOC debate. It is true that John and I both objected many times to the much more recent adoption of the OTHER exorbitantly expensive Comcast "California" channel, the one that carried the Kings. The Comcast "Bay Area" channel (30) had been in the RMA lineup for many years - it had some other name before Comcast acquired it - and was not very expensive. Then apparently Comcast decided last year to make it very pricey as well, and when the Board was agonizing over how to reduce the dues hike several months ago they adopted the GM's recommendation to drop this one, which was coming up for renewal at a sharply higher price.

The channel they have discontinued is not the channel we objected to. That channel is still on the air, I just checked, it's airing a high school basketball game.
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It was dropped by the Board, at the GM's suggestion, for budgetary reasons due to a big rate hike.

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That Comcast channel was never a subject of the FOC debate. It is true that John and I both objected many times to the much more recent adoption of the OTHER exorbitantly expensive Comcast "California" channel, the one that carried the Kings. The Comcast "Bay Area" channel (30) had been in the RMA lineup for many years - it had some other name before Comcast acquired it - and was not very expensive. Then apparently Comcast decided last year to make it very pricey as well, and when the Board was agonizing over how to reduce the dues hike several months ago they adopted the GM's recommendation to drop this one, which was coming up for renewal at a sharply higher price.

The channel they have discontinued is not the channel we objected to. That channel is still on the air, I just checked, it's airing a high school basketball game.
Mom3 didn't bring up FOC and neither did I. Someone (maybe you) said we could save $4 or $6 by getting rid of it. Channel 30 is the one that no longer exists now. I miss it too.

Your post makes little sense again. Which channel is it (that exists) that you say you object to? Channel 30 is the one that is gone. Should I again go mining for your (or FOC's) prior commentary? Geez this "clarifying of what you (and FOC) said" gets old.
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Max, I was responding to:

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Not to mention, if you're an Oakland A's fan, comcast just signed a deal to show 140 of their games. But we won't see a one, thanks FOC for the beginning of the end.
30, which is gone, is the old Fox BA Sports channel which got absorbed by the Comcast empire and used to be relatively cheap. 26, which is still on, is the one that carries the Kings and which was exorbitantly expensive when adopted and scheduled to become even more so when up for renewal. That's the one we objected to when it was picked up, without polling the membership, increasing the programming costs by a full tenth. For one channel that aside from a fraction of the Kings games mostly shows high school sports it seems.

The old Bay Area channel apparently was the one which came up first for renewal, and it was announced in the budget process that Comcast had decided to jack its cost way up as well. Out of budgetary concerns, rather than objections from FOC proponents, the BOD dumped it.

I'll accept some blame/credit if the BOD determines not to renew the "Kings Channel" (26) when it comes up for renewal. But none of us ever hollered about this Comcast Channel, which in its Fox variant and then under the Comcast banner had been here for over a decade and wasn't a budget-buster at all.
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That "Kings" channel will also be carrying 147 A's games 65 in HD, if we can get it. That is 13 more games than CSN Bay Area, and darn near the whole schedule. So soon it won't just be High School Basketball.

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30, which is gone, is the old Fox BA Sports channel which got absorbed by the Comcast empire and used to be relatively cheap. 26, which is still on, is the one that carries the Kings and which was exorbitantly expensive when adopted and scheduled to become even more so when up for renewal. That's the one we objected to when it was picked up, without polling the membership, increasing the programming costs by a full tenth. For one channel that aside from a fraction of the Kings games mostly shows high school sports it seems.

The old Bay Area channel apparently was the one which came up first for renewal, and it was announced in the budget process that Comcast had decided to jack its cost way up as well. Out of budgetary concerns, rather than objections from FOC proponents, the BOD dumped it.

I'll accept some blame/credit if the BOD determines not to renew the "Kings Channel" (26) when it comes up for renewal. But none of us ever hollered about this Comcast Channel, which in its Fox variant and then under the Comcast banner had been here for over a decade and wasn't a budget-buster at all.
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Channel 10 shows enough Kings' games for me. The Kings stink.
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Channel 10 shows enough Kings' games for me. The Kings stink.
Who cares if they suck, they're the only game in town. Especially now that we don't have comcast sports bay area. And for the record, I enjoy watching the high school sports on 26, nice to see some of the local high school talent. Not to mention that our local youth have to get a kick out of seeing themselves on t.v. But who cares about them, right? Put channel 30 back on so we can watch the A's and Giants, more people enjoy that than I think the BOD realizes.

And Wilbur, I'm sure the GM recommended the cut off of channel 30 to try and appease the FOC, he did have to listen to you guys bitching from day one. Probably thought it would cool your jets for a while.
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