Bally Sports

I've been a Comcast/Xfinity customer for 30 years.  They have always been a aggravating company to deal with.  If they don't start showing Bally Sports soon, I will be done with Xfinity.

I am about two days away from cancelling. Will cancel cable and internet just because they lost Bally's. They blame it on Diamond Sports group but, if they wanted to, they could make a deal.

I'll give Comcast a week to get baseball back on, and then it is off to another service. This is simply ridiculous. The only sport I regularly try to follow is Braves baseball. Bally is one of perhaps a half-dozen channels that we even care about. 

Hello @user_d4o4r5, Thanks so much for taking a moment out of your day to leave a post on our community forum. Comcast pays programmers to bring our customers the entertainment, information, and sports they want. We work to negotiate fair terms in order to ensure the greatest value for our customers given all the ways content can be accessed today. Unfortunately, our programming agreement with DSG has expired. We have made a number of reasonable offers that DSG hasn't accepted. We’ve been flexible with DSG, who is in bankruptcy proceedings, but have been unable to reach an agreement that’s fair for our customers. This means we no longer have the rights to carry their channels, including your local Bally Sports network. The loss of this channel will result in savings that we’ll pass along to you, and you’ll see an automatic credit in your bill in the coming weeks. 

I'm also extremely disappointed and will be canceling my service as soon as I can.  I've been a long-time customer (30 years) and have experienced numerous price increases and changes to service, but this is the worst especially since we were given no notice.  At a minimum, I don't understand why they couldn't get an extension for a couple months which would have provided viewing of baseball through this season as well as provide customers time to find alternative viewing options.  And the credit Comcast mentions better fully cover the cost we've been paying (Bally cost + regional sports fee).  Regardless of the issues with contracts, negotiations, etc., they said they had, I don't believe Comcast considered the impact to their customers, so I won't be one much longer.

I agree! I signed up with Comcast 7 years ago to be able to watch the Rays games. 

How come Frontier Cable in Tampa had no problem keeping Bally on the air without any price changes. 

I miss watching the Detroit Tigers! Please Xfinity, get Bally Sports back! I have been a customer for well over 20 years and I have stuck with you through thick and thin… I know there are so many more like me out there. Don’t you feel any kind of loyalty to your customers?

I'm taking advantage of the other TV provider's free trials.  Kind of like interviews.  I have it narrowed down but will definitely be leaving the TV service here.

Xfinity knew how customers would feel when canceling Bally.  I already get charged so much and so many "fees".  I feel like a corporation of this magnitude could make it work.

Use whatever slogan you want, write however many letters you want...let me see you do what you claim you want to.

Seriously so sick of this company, Ballys is the last straw. 

Just received my bill and there is NO CREDIT for loss of Bally Sports.   My bill is outrageous enough for the few channels we watch.   

Just received my bill and there is NO CREDIT for Bally.   the bill is so outrageous for the few channels we watch   

I just want to watch the Tampa Bay Ray's games so if I have to switch to Direct TV I will.