Insight Out; DirecTV Is In

The Turner Tribe are now worshiping around satellite television rather than digital cable. We finally got fed up with Insight and switched to DirecTV. Insight refused to broadcast several St. Louis Cardinals games that Fox Sports Midwest picked up after the start of the season because they did not want to pay the additional money. I was blacked out of 3 Cardinals games this week that were part of that package of games (even though I have officially given up on the Cards and am spending my time cheering on the Brewers!). They have also refused to add the Big Ten Network (BTN) to their programming. With football season getting started and basketball just around the corner, I wasn't going to miss out on a lot of Big Ten games so something had to give. This weekend's Illinois football game at Indiana would have been the first game I wouldn't have been able to watch because it was on the BTN (the WIU game was on the BTN too, but I was at that game so that doesn't count). I would be very disappointed if I wasn't able to watch the Illini victory over the Hoosiers!