Comcast to Sponsor MileHighReport for Remainder of 2009 Season

and a big compliment to the site! It’s good to see this site recognized. Great job Guru, staff and community!

Thanks Comcast. I always try to support our advertisers.

Good lord your telling me someone at Comcast actually made a GOOD advertising decision? What, no more acid trip commercials!?

Sweet though, great for MHR.

Not a big fan, but thanks anyway.

well i guess its only fair…with success comes advertising.

you guys deserve it (ad revenue) more than the guys from ESPN in the big red clown shoes anyways.

looking forward to the shilling for Preparation H, as the Broncos are going to be a pain in the rear end for the pundits and the league all season long !

I watch it this last weekend. Pretty cool, actually. I’m not a fantasy football guy, but it would be real handy for them to have. The Broncos play many games in the late afternoon timeslot and that means you will get extra coverage if they are in a tight game.

This is very cool, guys, congrats. I’ll have to check that red zone thing out.

(Er, btw, not to nitpick, but typo in this post’s header — should be sponsor with two "o"s, not “e”, but you knew that! Sorry, the editor in me coming out…)

Anyway, great news. Finally Comcast does something good. ;-)

I’ll check it out this weekend (hopefully it lets me DVR the channel…otherwise count me out). :)

I have been listening to the sound on it on my laptop, and playing the early games in mute on the two TVs I use. It’s much better than listening to horrible football commercials.

I am not in the area for comcast, however that is really good for those who do. No commercials and every TD…..sweet.

I am always uneasy doing posts like this because I don;t want to think my opinion can be ‘bought’. Thanks for the support!

Is absolutely hilarious. RZ is offered as a free package on the NFL Game Pass overseas and I watch it at half or during the commercials during the bronx games. And at half when he does the wrap of all the other games he’s SOOO much better than all the clowns at the networks you can tell he’s a true enthusiast.

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I watched it a bit this last Sunday, of course this week, they’ll miss all of the Broncos TDs from outside the red zone and by their Defense! LOL

I suppose I’ll wait until next year to switch to Comcastic!

Sacramento is one of the few markets over here they are dominate in. I know San Diego has Cox cable…too bad for you southern cali clowns. :P

When you say they are sponsoring the site, what does that mean? Are you being paid? Is the staff being paid? Are they paying for the website fees?

This is really a big thing in my opinion!

I like watching the Red Zone channel. Great for Fantasy Madness.

Would be funny if they offered this during basketball season … everytime a team is about to score the channel changes … I wonder how many seizures this would cause? Over/Under is set at 2,500.

“Being a sellout rules” – Eric Cartman

We just signed up for 2 years of DirecTV so I can watch Bronco games from sunny north Florida, so we won’t be taking advantage of RZ. Soon we’ll be complaining about MHR being the “MSM” :) HA!

Good sponsorship is always a plus…….and just so everyone knows, it isn’t Comcast that is offering up the free viewing this weekend it’s the NFL Network. I am a Dish subscriber and am getting the same offer…….

I REALLY, REALLY wish Comcast would buy out the stupid local Wichita cable co. ‘Cox’ ….. C’mon please?

; )

Traditionally have been opposed to Comcast but for this i commend them.

This is a great site. The MHR staff and contributors have worked hard for years to grow the site, glad to see that it’s getting recognition!

I watched it last week during the early games, it’s a pretty cool channel if there isn’t a game you really care about being carried on your local stations.

Of course, once the Bronco game started, that was it for Red Zone channel for the day ;)

Hey, John, I noticed that the Sprint background image is gone. Is Comcast the reason? If so, great! For some reason, that image slowed my browser.

i highly recommend Firefox (as your internet browser/webbrowser) but especially with the Adblock Plus addon. i would estimate i see about 1% of the spam/popups everyone else hates because I have this installed.

once you’ve seen an ad once its very simple to right click on the offending spam errrr i mean brilliant marketing tool and simply block it.

that Comcast ad is nice enough, good product presumably, and good on MHR for getting enough site hits that a big cable company is interested enough to spend some money or throw a discount or something to the people who make this quality website happen.

but since Comcast isn’t available here in Canada, that advertising is inapplicable to me as a consumer, and so i had to block it. victory is mine !

sometimes the smallest victories are the greatest victories ! go Broncos !

…so now MHR is acting as pitchman for Jamie Dukes, Solomon Wilcots and Crew.

I understand the business side and congratulate you on your well earned success, but a boycott is a boycott and I vowed I wouldn’t do a thing to support NFL Network.

Its been fun.

My first impulse in any sponsorship is to be concerned. I love MHR, and the last thing I (or anyone else) wants is to see MHR sell opinions for money.

Of course, we have the vows from Guru and HT that they are NOT selling their opinions for money…and I have absolutely no reason to not believe them.

But the second point. Guru mentioned that Comcast has approached MHR and other SBNations sites as sponsors, and I’m completely okay with this. Look around the site: there’s quite a bit of advertising going on. As much as we’d like to think SBNation exists only on the good will of it’s members, they need some form of revenue to make it all work. Servers, bandwidth, support, development…they all cost money. If a couple (obviously sponsor-related) articles show up, and it will help keep SBNation (and by extension, MHR) going, no problems here.

And with that said, I dumped cable AND both dishes 1.5 years ago, and have no intention of going back…so Comcast, send in the money! :o)

I mean this sounds like something good, but what is it exactly?