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Thursday, January 16th, 2025 1:26 AM

What new restrictions are making Celtics and Bruins games suddenly unavailable?

I am a single mother of three boys who are all huge Boston sports fans. We have not missed a Celtics game all season. Suddenly I’m getting a message that I don’t have access to watch Celtics OR Bruins games?? Please explain. My ex-husband uses Verizon and he can still get the games so my kids are watching it through his account on their phones. I cannot pay this much for cable and not be able to watch sports games with my boys,. Please provide more information because I will not be able to continue working with xfinity if I can’t get the games. Please help.

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20 days ago

 

user_sh7da2 Hello, I am happy to be of assistance. Can you please send us a DM. You can start by clicking the chat icon located in the top right corner of your forums' page when signed in. Once there, you can direct your messages to "Xfinity Support." Please add your full name and service address to help us locate your account. Let me know if you have any questions. 

 

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Same here, what a Edited[Language] !!!! Will be switching as soon as I can. Edited[Language] !!!!

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@XfinityVictor​  Why are you hiding your reply?  Lots of other people want to know why we are surprised to turn on a game we have expected only to find it is not available.  Why?   Can you at least publish a schedule of the games that are being blocked?  Can you give us a refund, as we signed up  (and are paying a pretty penny) with the expectation we could see all the games. 

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@struckd I understand wanting to watch your favorite teams. Programming is subject to the network discretion and is not controlled by Xfinity. We do not have a list of games that will be unavailable. 

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19 days ago

I will be leaving Xfinity as soon as I get an alternative fired up. I pay for trash Chanel’s that I don’t watch. Of the three my most watched channels, you took two of them away. 
I’ll be seeing you.

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Hey there, user_i9czd4, thanks for reaching out through Xfinity Forums regarding your channel lineup. We do not want to lose you as a customer, and we would be happy to see what options we have available! 

 

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@user_i9czd4​ I, too am planning to leave. Service is terrible. Always has been.

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The only way to get it on Xfinity as of January 14th is to upgrade to Ultimate TV or the Preferred Tier TV Packages. 

They are offering a promo by going to xfinity.com/upgradetv

It is unknown why this was done, but was the result of the recent contract renewal between Xfinity and NESN.

It also impacts NBc Sports. 

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Thanks for sharing the info , I view this company as being ruthless and Greedy, their pockets are deep and plentiful gouging the average family, they should have grandfathered in current selections, we were not even properly notified of the change. Many of us only watch the news and local sports. It is really unfortunate that they handled it the way they have. Many seniors and families do not have the tech savvy to switch to alternatives. So disrespectful to their customers with this sneaky endeavor. 

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17 days ago

We only watch a few channels and with the lost of the Celtics we have even less of a need for Comcast. 

We were recently forced to do a hardware upgrade now the service is noticeably slower.  So instead of having an improvement in the experience the overall customer satisfaction has declined and now with fewer channels.

Xfinity should be maintaining the offerings even if it means it's at your lost.  Asking customers to upgrade to maintain what they currently have is unacceptable.

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If Xfinity is advertising at td garden which I believe they may, the league should  know of their recent action of being poor sports and removing Celtic game access to thousands of subscribers many months into the season only to put the game on and not be able to watch it., midstream into the season. This was deployed in an effort to force customers to higher rate plans to watch them. If there was a Grinch his real name would be Xfinity. 

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So looking into the options for seeing the Celtics I just realized I'm being charged for 4 set top boxes when we only have 2.  So I connected with the on line assistance who argued with me; I stood my ground then they agreed.  They said they would help fix the issue and asked me to confirm my account with a text link.  The text link failed so we tried and Email link.  I received the same error message with the Email link (on my PC and on my phone) then the on-line assistant terminated the conversation.  Before terminating the conversation, a phone number was provided that failed to provide a live agent.

So this month:

*. New hardware that's slower than the old hardware with several service events to get this operational. 

*. Response time from our remote is so slow; you can wait seconds for a response. 

*. Paying for twice as many boxes than what we have

*. Asked us to pay an additional fee to see what was standard in our offering for something you took way.

After 29 years of service, I'll be moving to a new provider.  Next on the list; do I remove them from my business!

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Hey there, user_4sspj8, thanks for reaching out through Xfinity Forums regarding your account and billing concerns. We do not want to lose you as a customer, especially after 29 years! I would love the opportunity to go over your billing concerns to help resolve this!

 

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13 days ago

I am also planning to leave Comcast because of this. 

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Hello, @user_sh7da2. I get where you are coming from. Unfortunately, rising costs require us to consistently review our lineup and make sure we are providing the right channels at prices that are competitive for our customers. We are offering some 3 month deals to help you get your Celtics back at a reduced cost. Feel free to send a DM to Xfinity Support to get that added.

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13 days ago

We are looking to leave as well. Rising costs for service yet they keep taking away channels? Loosing the Celtics games while paying a price hike isn’t gonna happen in my house! Looking into Hulu plus live tv,which includes the Celtics games- for cheaper!!! 

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2 days ago

We are also planning on leaving. We have two cell phones. Two businesses and our home for over 15 years now with Comcast/xfinity. So sad that being loyal customers and paying over $315-$350 a month for our cable only. This does not include our business or cellphone plans. Our internet has been so horrible lately. Our service is so slow lately. We were charged for theee top boxes for over 8-10 years and only had 2. @$10 a box times 12 months times 10 years. You do the math. They offered to take $89 off of our next bill. They never ever fix the issues we do have it’s masked over and our problems just persist. My tv blocks for over a minute every time we turn it on before we can watch. Our remotes also now lag and our cellphone service under our WiFi has been horrid for 3-4 months or more now 

we watch mostly news and local sports. And now you’ve taken that away. It’s awful. We will be switching asap. No one notified us this was even going to happen now u expect us to pay more for channels we’ve had for years. We pay for hundreds of channels we’ve don’t even watch. This is outrageous and obsurred 

15+ years loyal customers and all I ever get from them is oh we can send someone out and try to fix this. Or sorry new customers get better deals than existing hahah! It’s a JOKE!

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Good evening user_1jffov thank you so much for taking the time out of your day and relaying your experience here on our Xfinity Forums. Channel lineup changes(even ones from our own local NBC affiliates) are not a guaranteed part of any service and are always subject to change.  We would hate to see you go after 15+ years, and so we're happy to assist in any way we can, so we can truly earn your business and loyalty. 

 

Please send a direct message by clicking the chat icon in the upper right corner of the page, clicking on the pen and paper icon, and then entering “Xfinity Support” in the “To” section. Please include your name and address, and we can get started anytime.

 

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