A mtn. of discontent

I am an alumnus of BYU (and former season ticket holder). We now live in the Fort Worth area, one of the top 10 media markets in the nation, and I do not have access to the mtn. I believe it is as much the shortsightedness and lack of effort from the league office, school presidents and ADs as it is the satellite providers. I did notice that they put a majority of TCU's games on the CSTV/OLN network, in an apparent attempt to placate the local fans for the home team, but there is a LARGE contingent of Cougar fans here also, and we are none to happy about the fact that we HAVE NO OPTION TO WATCH THE GAMES. No church satellite option, no rebroadcast option on BYU-TV, no gameplan type option from CSTV, nothing.

Scott Fudge

Fort Worth, Texas

You missed the mark. The Mountain West Conference needs to rethink its pay-for-football game. The fans are needed in order for football or any sport to succeed. Local TV, as in the past, is the best option for fans not calling cable and satellite providers.

David Ashby

I am a Utah grad who now lives in Mississippi (SEC country). I had hoped that when the Mountain West left ESPN and jumped to CSTV that I would indeed be able to see more Mountain West conference games. However, I'm very disappointed to date. I live in an area which offers all three potential mtn carriers — Dish, DirecTV (which I have) and Comcast. I put in a request to DirecTV via email to carry the mtn and this is their response: "Thanks for writing. I'm sorry, but we don't have any plans of carrying the new MTN Sports Network right now. However, we often add programming based on customer requests, and I have forwarded your request to DirecTV management." Subsequently, a cable company in my area was bought out by Comcast. "Great!" I thought, and I contacted Comcast about the mtn as well. This is the response: "Thank you for contacting Comcast ... at this time there are no plans to add this channel to the lineup on your area ... we do take each request into consideration in planning future changes to the line-up.