DISH Network drops Rockies games via AT&T SportsNet - The Denver Post

PHOENIX — If you have DISH Network, the Colorado Rockies’ season came to an end a few days early.

DISH Network has dropped AT&T SportsNet from its channel lineup, effectively dropping TV coverage of the Colorado Rockies and other major sports teams around the country.

The move was announced Thursday by both DISH and AT&T SportsNet. Rockies fans who usually watched games via DISH will not be able to watch the team’s final three games of the season at Arizona.

DISH dropped not only AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain — which carries Rockies games — but also AT&T SportsNet Southwest, AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh and ROOT Sports Northwest.

DISH customers in those markets are now without live games from teams such as the Houston Astros, Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, Vegas Golden Knights, Seattle Kraken, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

For sports fans in Colorado, the decision comes on the heels of two straight seasons that Nuggets, Avalanche and Rapids games have been unavailable on Comcast (XFinity cable) and DISH after both providers’ agreements with Altitude TV lapsed.

The Rockies did not issue a statement regarding the matter, instead referring to statements from AT&T SportsNet.

“We are not surprised DISH Network has chosen to deprive their customers of our regional sports networks,” said Patrick Crumb, president of AT&T Sports Networks. “As each of the nation’s regional sports networks’ agreements with DISH has come up for renewal over the last several years, we have witnessed them remove each RSN from their channel lineup.

“Until today the AT&T SportsNet and ROOT SPORTS networks were among the last remaining RSNs on the DISH platform. With DISH dropping our RSNs today, there is only one remaining RSN in the entire country that is carried by DISH.

“It is unfortunate that DISH has decided to abandon local MLB, NBA and NHL games, but the vast majority of DISH subscribers will have multiple alternative options for TV and streaming providers that carry our networks and we expect that many will switch from DISH to those providers that value premium local sports content.”

DISH Network, of course, provided a different view of the situation.

“The current RSN model is fundamentally broken,” Brian Neylon, group president of DISH, told Cord Cutter News. “This model requires nearly all customers to pay for RSNs when only a small percentage of customers actually watch them.”

Neylon said that there should be an alternative for fans to watch regional sports networks.

“Our proposal to offer sports fans access to RSNs is simple, and provides choice and value to all of our customers,” Neylon said. “It would allow DISH TV customers to choose to subscribe to the RSN channels they want — such as the regional AT&T SportsNet and Root Sports networks — on an a la carte basis, similar to premium subscription channels.

“With this updated RSN model, no customer would be forced to pay for content they don’t watch, and the RSNs would determine the price customers would pay for their channels.”

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Dish Network Drops AT&T Sportsnet, (and local Penguins Games) From Network - Pittsburgh Hockey Now

Customers of Dish Network will have to search elsewhere to watch Pittsburgh Penguins games this season as the network has cut the regional sports networks of AT&T Sportnet and Root Sports. This includes the channels of AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, AT&T SportsNet Southwest, AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh, and ROOT Sports Northwest.

That means no locally broadcast Penguins games on Dish. Or in the Hopper. If you have FuboTV or DirectTV, do not fret as the networks will still be available there.

These regional sports networks cover the Houston Astros, Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets, Vegas Golden Knights, Seattle Kraken, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Pittsburgh Penguins.

Pirates fans may welcome the respite, but Penguins fans are just gearing up for the season. Pirates fans were reportedly surprised in the middle of the Buccos blowout loss on Thurday night when the game was replaced in the middle of an inning with a “not available” message.

This dropping of networks continues the trend of Dish Network axing regional sports broadcasts. In the past two years, the TV provider has dropped regional sports networks from both Fox Sports and NBC Sports.

“The current RSN (regional sports network) model is fundamentally broken. This model requires nearly all customers to pay for RSNs when only a small percentage of customers actually watch them. AT&T and Root Sports continued demanding rates that are unreasonable to pass on to our consumers,” said Brian Neylon, group president of DishTV per a release first published on Streamable.com.

Two weeks ago, the NHL announced its national broadcast schedule with the Pittsburgh Penguins appearing in 13 national games including their season opener against the Tampa Bay Lightning on October 13.

With ESPN now airing NHL games, and the state of television continuing to change, Penguins fans will have to bounce around this season to watch the team.  EPSN, ABC, TNT, ESPN+, HULU, and of course AT&T Sportsnet are all scheduled to air Penguins games this season.

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Great Plains buys USA Communications, expands fiber network - FierceTelecom

Great Plains Communications purchased Kearney, Nebraska-based USA Communications and expanded its fiber network into areas of Nebraska and Colorado. Great Plains now has a fiber network touching 13 states and spanning more than 13,500 miles. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

USA Communications has been in business since 1995 and provides fiber connectivity to business and residential customers in parts of Nebraska and Colorado. Great Plains said it plans to initially focus on expanding USA Communications’ fiber network to more homes and businesses in Kearney, Grand Island and other Nebraska communities.

Great Plains is privately-owned and its fiber footprint is primarily concentrated in Indiana and Nebraska. However, it also has wholesale fiber for last- and middle-mile access in parts of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota and Wyoming.

The company is currently upgrading much of its network and is using XGS-PON and other fiber technologies for its builds.

RELATED: Great Plains Communications preps for a 10-gig future with XGS-PON fiber

Great Plains is owned by investment firm Grain Management, which focuses its investments on telecom infrastructure and fiber networks.

This is Great Plains third acquisition since it was acquired by Grain Management in October 2018. And it doesn’t plan to stop expanding anytime soon. In a statement, Todd Foje, CEO of Great Plains said that the company plans to work with its owners at Grain Management to identify future areas of expansion.

In September 2020, Great Plains purchased Enhanced Telecommunications in Southeastern Indiana.  In August 2019 it purchased InterCarrier Networks, a fiber provider in Illinois, Indiana, the St. Louis metro area, and Kentucky.

Great Plains also purchased Pinpoint Network Solutions and the Pinpoint Broadband business units of Pinpoint Holdings, in 2016, but that was prior to being acquired by Grain Management. 

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StreamElements acquires YouTube multichannel network Paragon - VentureBeat

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StreamElements announced today they’re acquiring the YouTube multichannel network Paragon, which includes YouTubers such as SypherPK, xNestorio, and Kiingtong.

Paragon is “a YouTube Network & Digital Media company” that offers a suite of services to content creators to boost their visibility and content quality.

Gil Hirsch, CEO of StreamElements, said the company hopes to expand its reach in the VOD space. “By making Paragon part of the StreamElements family, we are able to directly help many popular YouTube creators evolve their offerings and increase their audiences even more. This includes not taking a cut of their commissions from standard ad revenue which ties in with our mission of being a creator-first company.”

Multichannel networks have something of a checkered reputation among YouTube content creators, as they can be helpful for smaller creators, but others have said they’re too restrictive and require too much of the creator’s revenue for them to be worth the effort.

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Stream Elements hopes to change that by changing what they offer Paragon creators, as they will not take a commission from standard ad revenue streams and will offer “StreamElements’ broadcasting, monetization, and audience engagement technology and support.”

Sebastien Dalvaux, founder of Paragon, said in a statement the partnership would help provide new tools to the content creators who are part of Paragon’s network:  “Our goal with Paragon has been to work with creators to build a strong platform with the tools and support needed to strengthen their brands and create captivating content, while providing them with new revenue stream opportunities. StreamElements’ plan is to offer all that we have but supercharge it with their own capabilities and benefits which will make it an even more compelling offering where creators continue to come first.”

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All Day Kitchens wants to expand every independent restaurant’s delivery network - TechCrunch

The pandemic ushered in the popularity of shared workspaces, known as cloud kitchens or ghost kitchens, for restaurants to cook meals exclusively for delivery.

But for small, independent restaurants that couldn’t afford the upfront costs for expansion, Uber Eats alums Ken Chong and Matt Sawchuk came up with another approach. They founded All Day Kitchens in 2018 to partner with restaurants to share their food across a city through use of a network of satellite kitchens, without having to put up any upfront costs.

With their model, distributed kitchens are situated in residential and business areas, closer to customers. When a new restaurant is onboarded to the platform, their food goes to all locations, which streamlines how restaurants expand in large geographies and delivery zones, CEO Chong told TechCrunch. The model also enables the ability for customers to order from multiple restaurants in one order and it will all be delivered together.

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“Consumer preference was spoken for pre-COVID and the entire restaurant world was not going to be the right model for how digital demand was to be filled,” he added. “We set out to build a turn key solution for restaurants for which warehouse ghost kitchens were not working for them. Instead, we built a platform for micro-fulfillment so they could expand their reach.”

On Friday, the food tech and logistics company announced a $65 million Series C round of financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from GIC to fund expansion into new markets, R&D and hiring. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures and Base10 also participated in the round along with new investors, including Tishman Speyer, Lime CEO Wayne Ting and Forward co-founders Adrian Aoun and Ilya Abyzov.

The new investment brings All Day Kitchens’ total funding to date to $102.5 million. It is the latest company in the ghost kitchen space to receive funding in a hot industry that includes Muy, JustKitchen and even robotic kitchens like YPC.

The company doubled the number of satellite kitchens in its network this year and now operates more than 15 locations throughout the Bay Area and Chicago, with new markets expected to go into Texas and Southern California next year, Chong said. It is also hiring at its headquarters in San Francisco and as it opens the new markets.

Though the global pandemic was a tough environment for its restaurant partners, All Day Kitchens saw the number of partners joining the platform grow by four times over the past year. It is working with brands like Honey Butter Fried Chicken, Mott St and HaiSous. It’s revenue has also increased 18 times over the past 18 months.

“The part that we honestly found surprising and striking is the misconception that restaurants are late adopters,” Chong said. “Similar to Uber, it is really that no one was building something like this for them. A lot of the apps out there are for consumers, and that is why restaurants are our focus. The restaurant partners we work with are always looking to improve.”

As part of the investment, Alex Taussig, partner at Lightspeed, is joining the company’s board as a director and GIC’s Jeremy Kranz is joining as a board observer.

Taussig met Chong over a year ago and said Lightspeed has made a number of investments in the food and commerce space over the past decade. One of the areas Taussig was looking into was ways to solve the demand for delivery. He recalls looking at different startups and models and was “underwhelmed” by the warehouse models.

In talking to Chong about All Day Kitchens, Taussig saw something different: a model where the focus was getting the food closer to the customer. It not only correlated with the quality of food, but also delivery times so that items weren’t sitting in someone’s car for an hour. As a result, there would be higher utilization of the platform, he said.

“I was blown away by that insight and spent a year watching Ken build the company,” Taussig added. “The Chicago launch was also a big deal because most companies start in the Bay Area. This market size is measured in billions and is almost limitless and faster growing on the independent side. It is going to be hard for another company to come in and do what All Day Kitchens is already doing.”

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5 Midwestern governors agree to create a network to charge electric vehicles - NPR

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The governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are joining forces to build a new network for charging electric vehicles. The bipartisan plan aims to improve the region's economy while also reducing toxic emissions from cars and trucks.

The new plan is called REV Midwest — the Regional Electric Vehicle Midwest Coalition. In addition to creating jobs and improving public health, its backers say it will help the Midwest compete for both private investment and federal funding.

Along with those broad goals, the plan promises to make it easier to find charging stations, which could boost adoption of electric vehicles if it eases drivers' concerns about the range of their batteries.

"Today's REV Midwest partnership is a bipartisan effort to build the future of mobility and electrification and connect our communities," Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said. "Our partnership will enable the Midwest to lead on electric vehicle adoption, reduce carbon emissions, spur innovation, and create good-paying jobs."

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb emphasized transportation's vital role in the U.S. economy, saying that new electric charging infrastructure is "needed to futureproof our transportation network and meet the demand as rapid adoption of electric vehicles continues."

All five governors have now signed the REV Midwest agreement, which lays out several areas in which the states will coordinate their electrification efforts.

Part of the plan calls for the states to speed up the creation of a network that supports medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles and to coordinate their efforts so drivers will face similar regulations and charging operations across the region.

The governors also want the Midwest to capture a larger share of electric vehicle production. And their plan mentions equity a number of times — both in terms of spreading economic opportunity and making charging stations and other infrastructure widely available.

Under the agreement, the five states promise to "work together to enable an equitable transition to electric vehicles for all with specific consideration for communities that are historically disadvantaged."

Some of those communities, a news release about the plan notes, are located near main highways or freight and shipping facilities — areas whose emissions and other negative impacts could be reduced by the switch to electric power.

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