AIG beats Comcast for 'worst' dishonors at consumer site
AIG beats Comcast for 'worst' dishonors at consumer site
AIG beats Comcast for 'worst' dishonors at consumer site
"Congratulations to AIG for beating Comcast in this year's final!" writes Consumerist.org here. The site, owned by nonprofit Consumers Union, has closed the unscientific online poll for its yearly Worst Company in America contest, after voters chose American International Group, "the economic poster child for irresponsibility and corruption."
Ticketmaster, Peanut Corp. of America, and 26 other nominees trailed. Comcast finished second for the second year in a row, Consumerist noted: "We feel like a runner-up prize is in order."
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Nobody entered the Board of Revision of Taxes? City Council? Where's the diversity here?— Ken K- eicholson what the hell are you talking about i never miss a phillies game and i have comcast— dcram1980
- the soundshaper is correct,if you want to watch any phillie game not on Wphl.Espn or Fox you must have comcast. That works out to 108 games they blackout to anyone not a comcast subscriber— eicholson
- A sad day for AIG and Hank Greenberg. AIG is really a misunderstood story. But what's really shoocking is that Comcast almost won the honors anyway.— NickEeee
- comcast on one side of street...but not the side I live on...creeps— rothstein12
- opposing teams feeds are blacked out accept for the Mets and yankees in our area.— TheSoundshaper
- MLB has a blackout policy to protect regional sports networks. They assume that you can watch the games on your local sports channels. This is true everywhere in the country BUT around here. If you live a little farther out in PA or NJ of comcast's service area ( Trenton and north in jersey) you can't get comcast sportsnet and even if you get a sports package it will be blacked out. These Areas still fall into the Phillies MLB blackout zone but comcast doesn't give service there so no CSN Philly. All the regional sports channels are offered on other services except for CSN Philly. In fact all the other comcast regional networks are on there(ie the Cardinals CSNthe other night which is blacked out for phillies). I found this out the hard way but their are no options until the FCC forces them to feed it— TheSoundshaper
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- While I think Comcast's services' suck, just to point out to you that satellite tv isnt that great and Verizon isnt even offered in the city so for the most part comcast has been the only decent choice for philadelphians for a long time. As far as blacking out games i dont know what your talking about when you say that all virtuall all phillies games have been blacked out. No idea where that came from because ive seen all the phillies games. That being said though.. i cant wait till verizon is available in my area in philly because they will offer Comcast Sports Net. Why they arent offering verizon to the whole city all at once im still not sure of but i heard its gonna be offered different sections at a time— philliekev04
- Its true.. Comcast is awful.. They found a loophole so they don't have to feed their channel to other cable providers (except for Verizon Fios ). I lived in the area of comcast for 26 years. I moved right outside comcasts cable "zone" but still in the MLB blackout zone because of work and I can't get any phillies games. I ordered Directv with all the sports channels and MLB Extra Innings. I get every comcast regional network BUT Philly and on the extra inning package the games on CSN are blacked out. LAME!!!!!— TheSoundshaper
- you can't get the Phillies or the Flyers unless you have Comcast (CSN) unless the rare game on PHL 17 or FOX/ESPN— kpunk
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- and no I do not work for any of their competitors— eicholson
- Comcast is an overpriced monopoly that needs to be ruled illegal, They blackout virtually all phillies games home and away,plus they offer no community access channels which were mandated in thr original cable agreement 24 years ago, They are a blight on Philadelphia— eicholson
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