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Over the past 4 days we have received more than 100 calls and emails from Bobcats fans across the Carolinas who can't find our broadcast on Fox Sports Carolinas (FSCR) or SportSouth (SPSO) on their cable or satellite system. After a weekend of phone calls and research, the following are all the facts I have been able to assemble related to the current distribution and carriage of the Bobcats on FSCR and SPSO:

- FSN South has distributed 70 Bobcats broadcasts on FSCR and SPSO to every cable and satellite operator in North and South Carolina
- The following cable operators have opted to pick up the Bobcats on FSCR and SPSO; Time Warner Cable in Charlotte , Greensboro , Fayetteville , Raleigh ** and Winston-Salem ; Mi-Connection ( Mooresville , NC ); SkyLine Communications (West Jefferson, NC) and Southern Coastal Cable, LLC ( Georgetown , SC )
- **Time Warner Cable in Raleigh only carries FSCR
- If your cable operator is not among those listed above, it means they have made the decision to not carry the Bobcats this season on FSCR and SPSO
- Satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network have opted to limit their carriage of the Bobcats on FSCR and SPSO to the NBA-designated inner market: a 75-mile radius around the city of Charlotte
- It should be noted that neither DirecTV nor Dish Network has the ability to perfectly define a 75-mile radius in their geo-coding of subscribers
- Neither DirecTV nor Dish Network will make Bobcats games available on FSCR or SPSO beyond the NBA 75-mile inner market radius because they both decided not to pay the fee necessary to cover the NBA's outer market fees
- Regardless of a cable or satellite operator's decision to carry the Bobcats on FSCR and SPSO, all of our games are blacked out on NBA League Pass in North and South Carolina per NBA rules
- The best course of action to remedy this situation is to contact your cable or satellite operator directly and express your desire to watch the Bobcats on FSCR and SPSO

If you have any other questions regarding carriage of the Bobcats on FSCR and SPSO by cable and satellite operators, please let me know and I will do my best to answer them.

W_HAMILTON wrote:Is that a Bobcats official posting that? If so, they should be the ones bitching to TWC that most of their outlets are not choosing to televise their games. What the hell was the purpose of giving them naming rights? Most of the people that see the games now, could see the games before anyway.

It's like they are making it harder for a lot of people to watch the games. What's funny is, it was easier for me to watch games when C-SET was still around, because they at least offered that as a channel I could receive. From what I understand now, if you are part of a cable area that "chose" not to pick up the Bobcats games, you have basically no way of watching them on TV.

If C-SET was a disaster, I don't know what they think this deal was.

I sure hope they at least got some money from the naming rights deal.

fatlever wrote:ham, that post came directly from michael thompson who works for the bobcats. Thanks michael for at least keeping us in the loop.

agreed, the bobcats should be having a fit. they should be on the phones with all the local cable companies working out a deal to get their games on tv. just sayin "well, we gave them the option to pick up the games and they didnt, oh well, nothing we can do" that's a losing mentality. if the local cable cos dont want to pick up the games because they dont want to pay the extra fees to fsn, then the bobcats should work out a deal to pay the fees for the cable cos or work out a deal with fsn to get the fees reduced or dismissed. the bobcats keep saying its not their fault. who cares whose fault it is. the bobcats are the ones getting screwed by fsn and the cable cos. dont make the fans do your dirty work for you.