This week, on short warning, 900,000 area Comcast subscribers lost YES from their you’ll-eat-what-we-serve menus. Same old stuff: YES is too expensive and wants even more for goods — primarily Yankees and Nets — few are interested in viewing.
And that leads to the same old follow-up: If that’s the case, it’s incumbent upon Comcast to rebate or credit customers for the loss of YES based on exactly what it charged them for it. Fat chance. If only Comcast will be reaping the savings, why purport to be serving the best financial interests of its customers, now required to pay the same for less?
If Comcast does provide credits or rebates, the amount will be pocket change, not a reflection of YES as too expensive to have been carried in the first place — or next week.
By now we know how these disputes often play out: YES and Comcast, after spending a fortune accusing the other of treason, will reach a settlement for which only subscribers will pay.
And then Comcast will holler, “YES is back! Yankees! NBA! All the stuff you love! Come and get it!” It’s all predicated upon subscribers being too stupid to know — or that it makes no difference even if they do. What’s a good reputation worth these days, anyway? Nothing.
Time Warner wouldn’t clear the NFL Network, claiming few wanted it. But when it settled, Time Warner sold it as a must-have!
